“When you give yourself a minute to think, you give yourself a chance to make a better decision.”

Resources & Materials

PAUSE Online

www.fox.com/pause is a dedicated site through fox.com that provides information and resources on the range of issues addressed within the PAUSE campaign. Content is organized under three main sections: Mind, Body, and Relationships. The site offers original content and features links to prominent national organizations including:

BODY

TobaccoAmerican Legacy Foundation

Alcohol and DrugsNational Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign

PregnancyNational Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Obesity and NutritionAlliance for a Healthier Generation A partnership between the William J. Clinton Foundation and American Heart Association

MIND

DepressionKidsHealth.org/teenshealthCreated by the The Nemours Foundation’s Center for Children’s Health Media

Eating Disorders (anorexia/bulimia)National Eating Disorders Association

CuttingS.A.F.E. Alternatives

“When you give yourself a minute to think, you give yourself a chance to make a better decision.”

Public Service Ads

The Kaiser Family Foundation and Fox jointly produce PSAs addressing a wide range of issues including teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases; alcohol and substance use; and online safety, among other topics. These television spots aim to encourage young people (ages 15 and older) to make smart choices and maintain healthy life-styles.

The PSAs are tagged with the campaign’s website, www.fox.com/pause where viewers can get more information about the issues addressed in the PSAs.

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This policy brief and accompanying snapshot examines the relationship between increases in the unemployment rate and changes in the number of people covered by employer-sponsored health insurance, Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and non-group insurance policies, as well as the financial implications for government budgets.

The report also estimates the potential state costs for Medicaid, SCHIP and the uninsured under such a scenario, and the potential impact of proportional statewide budget cuts on Medicaid and SCHIP funding assuming that states maintain eligibility levels for public programs. If states reduce eligibility levels or established enrollment barriers, then Medicaid and SCHIP enrollment and spending will be depressed and the number of uninsured would be higher than the estimates in this report. In addition, states may not be able to provide additional funding to hospitals and other providers to care for the uninsured.

The one-page snapshot projects the effect of rising unemployment on the financing of state Medicaid and SCHIP programs into fiscal year 2011.

 Policy Brief (.pdf)

 Snapshot: Multi-Year Look at State Financing Effects (.pdf)

This issue brief provides key findings from the Kaiser Survey of Children’s Health Coverage, including that many low- and middle-income working families with an uninsured child do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance. The telephone survey of parents that was conducted in 2007 to learn more about children’s access to coverage and care and the health care cost-related pressures facing their families.

Issue Brief (.pdf)

This fact sheet outlines issues in outreach and enrollment for Medicaid and SCHIP. It provides a profile of eligible but uninsured children, discusses the greatest barriers to enrollment, and offers strategies to improve enrollment.

Fact Sheet (.pdf)

This chartbook provides fundamental facts about children’s health insurance coverage.

Chartbook (.pdf)

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February 2007 (.pdf)

This past summer, the United States government’s global HIV/AIDS program was reauthorized and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data indicating that the epidemic at home was worse than previously thought. These events called significant attention to HIV/AIDS and together present the new Administration and Congress with an opportunity to address the epidemic at home and abroad.

Several short-term HIV-specific policy options have already been proposed for consideration, or are under consideration, by the new Administration and Congress. This brief provides an overview of some of these options, as put forward by non-governmental organizations and by President Obama. It is not, however, meant to be inclusive of all proposed options nor does it address any broader, non HIV-specific policy changes that are also underway – namely, national health care reform and foreign aid reform – although such efforts will undoubtedly have significant implications for the government’s response to HIV.

Issue Brief (.pdf)

This issue brief examines health insurance coverage for low-income citizen children whose parents are not citizens and some of the specific barriers to enrolling these children in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. It is based on findings from the Kaiser Survey of Children’s Health Coverage, a telephone survey of parents conducted in 2007 to learn more about children’s access to coverage and care and the health care cost-related pressures facing their families.

Issue Brief (.pdf)

Overall, more than one-third of the states (19 states) took steps last year to increase access to health coverage for low-income children, pregnant women and parents –- including 15 states that authorized or implemented coverage expansions. At the same time, 10 states enacted at least one measure to restrict access. The report also examines trends in parental coverage and state outreach efforts, including the use of technology to facilitate enrollment.

Full Report (.pdf)

Data Tables (.pdf)

Toplines — The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the New President and Congress

This document contains the detailed toplines from The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the New President and Congress poll. The poll involved a nationally representative random sample of 1,628 adults ages 18 and older who were interviewed by telephone between December 4 and 14, 2008. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points. For results based on smaller subsets of respondents, the sampling error is somewhat higher.

Toplines (.pdf)