A 4-page issue brief that looks at trends in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage in California. The brief also includes public and private sector strategies for expanding employment-based coverage, and discusses how other states have implemented incremental coverage expansions using public programs and financial incentives, with emphasis on New York State. The brief lists the panel for a California Health Policy Roundtable held in Sacramento, California on May 4, 2001.

• Issue Brief

• Issue Update

Women comprise a growing share of new cases of AIDS in the United States. In 1986, women only represented 7% of new cases of AIDS. By 1999 that share had risen to nearly one quarter. Not only do women represent an increasing share of persons with AIDS, today they represent 30 percent of new HIV infections. Women of color, particularly African Americans, have been hardest hit among women.

This report provides an overview of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on women. It draws from recent data and research on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS among women, including data on cases and mortality; health services use and coverage; and attitudinal data from several recent national surveys. Key Facts presents current snapshots and trends over time, and examines the impact of the epidemic on women generally, as well as the disproportionate impact on minority women.

This report and a related fact sheet on Women and HIV/AIDS were developed for a Capitol Hill Briefing on Women and HIV/AIDS. For more information on the Foundation’s briefing series, see the Capitol Hill Briefing Series on HIV/AIDS page of our web site.

Report (.pdf)

A new Commission report of state experiences after eliminating the Medicaid asset test reveals that the action cut administrative costs, improved program efficiency, and increased access to health care.

Background Paper

Medicaid’s Disabled Population and Managed Care

This fact sheet highlights the key facts about the Medicaid managed care programs that serve persons with disabilities. It describes the Medicaid disabled population and the role managed care plays in serving them. It also provides information on enrollment in managed care, program features, and issues such as quality assurance, rate setting, and benefits.

• Fact Sheet

This report examines the design and implementation of California’s State Children’s Health Insurance Program (known as Healthy Families), including contracting issues, program design and administration, and access to care by adolescents and children with special health care needs. This report is one of several appearing on this website from a five-state study of CHIP implementation in California, Connecticut, Maryland, Missouri, and Utah.

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.

• Fact Sheet

Summarizes the number of uninsured individuals in rural America, who they are, and the barriers to coverage they experience.

• Fact Sheet

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

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.

• Presentation