Recent Publications on Medicaid and State Budgets
Medicaid is a joint federal-state program in which Federal Medicaid matching payments are projected to be $147 billion FY 2002, while state spending is estimated at about $100 billion.
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Changes in Insurance Coverage: 1994-2000 and Beyond
ReportThis background report explores the insurance trends for the latter half of the 1990s and examines why the number of uninsured nonelderly Americans fell in 2000 for the second straight year.
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Nursing Home Staffing Standards
ReportThis policy brief describes the current federal staffing requirements and how states separately regulate staffing levels in nursing homes. It also presents data showing actual staffing levels in over half of this country's nursing homes exceed the levels that states and the federal government require.
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Nursing Home Quality: State Agency Survey Funding and Performance
ReportThis policy brief describes the resources, staffing, and performance of state licensing and certification agencies based on findings from a survey of state survey agency officials.
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New York’s Disaster Relief Medicaid: Insights and Implications for Covering Low-Income People
ReportThis focus group study is of New Yorkers who enrolled in Disaster Relief Medicaid (DRM), a temporary public health insurance program created after the September 11th attacks. It is based on findings from six focus groups conducted with Hispanic, Chinese, and African American New Yorkers.
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State Budgets Under Stress: How are States Planning to Reduce the Growth in Medicaid Costs?
Other PostAn issue update that provides preliminary results from a survey of the 50 states and the District of Columbia on their plans to constrain Medicaid cost growth. The full survey will be released in September.
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Underinsured in America: Is Health Coverage Adequate?
Fact SheetUnderinsured in America: Is Health Coverage Adequate? This fact sheet examines the adequacy of health insurance coverage of the insured and focuses on the consequences and future policy challenges of what some experts have defined as "underinsurance.
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The Wide Circle of Caregiving
Poll FindingThe Kaiser Family Foundation helped conduct a national survey of over 1,000 informal caregivers in 1998 to assess the policy issues involved with this new, growing role for many family members and friends.
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A Profile of Federally Funded Health Centers Serving a Higher Proportion of Uninsured Patients
ReportThis report examines the characteristics of health centers that serve an unusually high rate of uninsured patients. It explores what external factors influence uninsured patients to seek care at these centers and assesses the impact of a disproportionately high volume of uninsured patients on these centers' finances and operations.
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Welfare, Work and Health Care
ReportAs the U.S. Congress works on legislation to reauthorize Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the nation's welfare program, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured cosponsored a briefing on the health-related issues of the reauthorization.