Condoms Fact Sheet
- Fact Sheet: Condoms
Medicaid’s Role for the Disabled Population Under Age 65
Medicaid’s Role for the Disabled Population Under Age 65
Defines the non-elderly disabled and summarizes Medicaid’s role in their health care coverage. Includes a description of enrollment requirements, benefits, spending and managed care concerns for the population.
The Uninsured in Rural America
Summarizes the number of uninsured individuals in rural America, who they are, and the barriers to coverage they experience.
Immigrants’ Health Coverage and Access
New and recent publications on immigrant health policy explore some of the complex problems the country faces in expanding health coverage to immigrants and provide basic statistics and facts on the current status of their health care.
- News Release: Recent Immigrants Have Had Little Impact on the Growth in America’s Uninsured Population
- Issue Paper: Is Immigration Responsible for the Growth in the Number of the Uninsured?
- Fact Sheet: Immigrants’ Health Care Coverage and Access
- Chart Pack: Immigrants’ Health Care: Coverage and Access
- Background Paper: Caring for Immigrants: Health Care Safety Nets in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Houston
- Policy Brief: Medicaid Eligibility and Citizenship Status: Policy Implications for Immigrant Populations
- Link to find “Left Out: Immigrants’ Access to Health Care and Insurance”
- Background Paper: Immigrants’ Access to Health Care After Welfare Reform: Findings from Focus Groups in Four Cities
Incremental Ways to Cover the Uninsured
The Kaiser Commission co-sponsored a policy briefing on America’s uninsured population and potential models for coverage expansion. Expanding public programs and providing tax credits are both being discussed as ways to cover some of the 42 million uninsured Americans. A link to the webcast and related resources is provided.
President Bush’s Budget: An Overview of Health Programs
President Bush’s Budget: An Overview of Health Programs
A new Foundation presentation provides an overview of President Bush s federal budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2002, focusing on its impact on health programs. The budget largely keeps pace with expected growth in Medicare and Medicaid, creates a prescription drug block grant to states for low-income seniors, proposes decreased funding for some public health programs, and would provide either limited or no growth for central programs related to HIV/AIDS.
Making Medicare Work Better
This report by the Institute for Medicare Practice at Mount Sinai School of Medicine takes a hard look at the operational challenges facing Medicare and considers incremental, structural changes to improve the management of the Medicare program from the standpoint of beneficiaries and providers.
Based on interviews with key experts and Medicare stakeholders including representatives of beneficiaries, hospitals, physicians and other providers of care, as well as current and former Congressional and Administration staff, the report identifies problems in current operations and offers recommendations to address them. Recommended changes are grouped according to whether they would primarily impact beneficiaries, providers or general program administration. For each recommendation, the report identifies the type of action that would be needed statutory, appropriation, or administrative.
Poll Finding
Health News Index March/April, 2001
Health News Index March/April, 2001
The March/April, 2001 edition of the Kaiser Family Foundation/HarvardSchool of Public Health Health News Index includes questions about major health stories covered in the news, including questions about the financial future of Social Security and Medicare. The Health News Index is designed to help the news media and people in the health field gain a better understanding of which health stories Americans are following and what they understand about those health issues. Every two months, Kaiser/Harvard issues a new index report.
In Their Own Words: Family Profiles
In Their Own Words: Family Profiles
As the U.S. Congress and state legislatures explore policies to cover the uninsured, the Commission has profiled four families with uninsured members, including their family budgets, to better understand how specific policy ideas will practically affect typical uninsured Americans.
Access to Care for S-CHIP Adolescents
The second in a series of reports on implementation issues and challenges in the first year of S-CHIP finds that the five study states have not focused special attention on the unique service needs of this age group, such as risk assessment and counseling, reproductive and sexual health services, and mental health services, when designing their programs.