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• Section 1: Demographic and Economic Profiles of California’s Population (.pdf)
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Medicaid and State-Funded Coverage for Adults: Estimates of Eligibility and Enrollment

Lack of health insurance coverage for low-income adults remains a pressing policy challenge. In 2002, low-income adults who were uninsured accounted for nearly half of the uninsured population. This report provides an overview of nonelderly adult eligibility for and enrollment in Medicaid and state-funded coverage, nationally and in 13 study states.

Executive Summary (.pdf)

Full Report (.pdf)

Appendix (.pdf)

Preparing for the Medicare Drug Discount Card Rollout A Conference Call Discussion

With Medicare beneficiaries eligible to subscribe to a discount drug card as of May 3 and use them as of June 1, there is little time to clear up any confusion or answer outstanding questions about the program. Dozens of private companies are sponsoring national or regional cards, including some Medicare managed care plans. Enrollment fees could be as high as $30 per year for the two years leading up to 2006. Low-income beneficiaries may qualify for a free discount drug card and up to $600 in subsidies per year to help pay for their drugs.

The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the National Association of State Medicaid Directors sponsored a conference call on April 29, 2004 to discuss issues surrounding the drug discount card rollout.

Agenda

Speaker Biographies

Nancy Atkins’ Presentation

Patricia Nemore’s Presentation

10 Things You Should Know About the Medicare Endorsed Discount Drug Card

The Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Program: Implications for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries – Issue Paper

Striving to Make Ends Meet: Low-Income Families’ Finances and Health Coverage

The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured released new reports and held a policy briefing on the challenges and tradeoffs low-income families face when dealing with their budgets and the implications for health coverage.

Challenges and Tradeoffs in Low-Income Family Budgets: Implications for Health CoverageFaces of Medicaid

Webcast of April 20, 2004 Policy Briefing

– Issue Paper

This Issue Paper describes the discount card and low-income assistance programs and discusses their implications for low-income Medicare beneficiaries and state Medicaid programs.

Issue Paper (.pdf)

Challenges and Tradeoffs in Low-Income Family Budgets: Implications for Health Coverage – Report

This report explores the experiences of families trying to make ends meet on limited budgets. By discussing these families’ work, spending patterns, financial challenges, priorities and tradeoffs and health care and coverage, this report intends to provide a deeper understanding of families’ financial pressures and choices and information to assess the impact of current and proposed policies.

Report (.pdf)

A chartpack of selected findings of the March/April 2004 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Poll Report survey that underscores the need to educate seniors about the new Medicare prescription drug program.

Survey Chartpack (.pdf)

Selected findings from the March/April 2004 Kaiser Family Foundation Health Poll Report survey underscores the need to educate seniors about the new Medicare prescription drug program – both the transitional discount card program that will be go into effect on June 1, 2004 and the full Medicare benefit that begins in January 2006. The survey, which is conducted every two months, is designed and analyzed by staff at the Foundation and colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Below are a chartpack and toplines of the full results of the survey, including questions about drug reimportation and other policy issues.

Chartpack

Survey Toplines

Financing the Medicaid Program: The Impact of Federal Fiscal Relief, April 2004

This fact sheet summarizes why federal fiscal relief to states was granted in 2003, including additional money for Medicaid; the impact of the relief in easing state budgetary pressure; and what may occur in the states after the fiscal relief expires in June 2004.

Fact Sheet (.pdf)

Medicaid is financed jointly by the federal government and states. This shared financing has produced tension at times over the appropriate share of the cost of the program. This report explains briefly the mechanisms used by states in recent years to finance their share of Medicaid expenditures.

Issue Brief (.pdf)