The San Jose Mercury News/Kaiser Survey Project

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This survey project is designed to explore social issues that are of special concern to the San Francisco Bay Area, but are also important to the nation as a whole. Representatives from the San Jose Mercury News and Kaiser work together to develop survey questionnaires and analyze results on which a series of articles are based. Kaiser pays for survey related expenses and each organization bears sole responsibility for the work that appears under its name.

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The USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Survey Project

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The USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Survey Project is a joint partnership with the goal of examining public knowledge, values, attitudes and experiences with health care issues. Representatives of USA Today, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard School of Public Health work together to develop surveys and analyze the results. USA Today publishes stories based on the data, retaining editorial control over the content published by the paper.

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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

The fifteen and their host newspapers/TV stations are:

The Baltimore Sun – Emily Brown The Boston Globe – Naila Fin MoreiraThe Charlotte Observer – Sachi Fujimori*The Detroit Free Press – Lubna TakruriThe Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Dani McClainNewsday – Sophia ChangThe Oregonian – My-Thuan TranThe Orlando Sentinel/El Sentinel – Ashima SingalThe Plain Dealer, Cleveland – Erika BerasThe Sacramento Bee – Tomio GeronThe San Jose Mercury News – Kendra MarrThe Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale – Toni De AztlanThe Washington Post – Jeffrey GhassemiBET News –KTVU/2-TV, San Francisco-Oakland – KXAS/5-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth –

*In 2006, The Detroit Free Press will be sponsoring their own Kaiser intern.

A fact sheet on the demographics and health coverage of Alabama’s population.

Fact Sheet (.pdf)

A fact sheet on the demographics and health coverage of Mississippi’s population.

Fact Sheet (.pdf)

Key Facts – Louisiana and the U.S.

A fact sheet on the demographics and health coverage of Louisiana’s population

Fact Sheet (.pdf)

More than 21,000 people with HIV/AIDS were estimated to be living in the disaster-affected counties of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. In addition to facing the multitude of health and other challenges confronting Hurricane survivors, people with HIV/AIDS may face additional hardships due to their HIV illness. This fact sheet provides the latest county data on the number of people with HIV/AIDS in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as information on the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) for each state.

Fact Sheet (.pdf)

This study examines the privately insured who have had problems paying medical bills and compares their access to care to those who have not had medical bill problems as well as those with no health coverage at all, using a national representative survey of adults. The study finds that care-seeking patterns among those with private coverage but having problems paying their medical bills resembled those of the uninsured.

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This report examines the impact of Massachusetts eliminating coverage of most dental services for adults in its Medicaid program, MassHealth. The report findings include:

• In FY2004, 100,000 fewer MassHealth adult enrollees received dental services reimbursed by MassHealth than in FY2001, the year prior to the reductions;
• The number of private dentists actively treating MassHealth patients declined after the reductions, and dental directors at community health centers (CHCs) indicated that they did not have the capacity to deal with large numbers of new patients;
• MassHealth enrollees and providers reported an increase in untreated dental problems and a reduction in corrective and restorative treatments for MassHealth enrollees;
• MassHealth enrollees described living with pain, diminished self-esteem, and negative effects on employment and their families’ finances due to dental problems; and
• The dental benefit reductions resulted in savings of less than one percent of the state’s share of total program spending, and it appears that some dental costs were shifted to other areas.

Report (.pdf)