Subsidizing COBRA: An Option for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage
This paper examines a method for making health insurance more affordable to people who may lose health insurance when they lose or change jobs.
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Expanding Health Insurance Through Tax Reform
ReportThis paper discusses the impacts of the Heritage Foundation proposal for expanding health insurance coverage. Under the proposed tax reform, the employer tax exclusion and all other deductions for health-related expenses would be repealed. A new refundable tax credit would be created for unreimbursed medical expenses.
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Making Child Health Coverage a Reality: Lessons From Case Studies of Medicaid and CHIP Outreach and Enrollment Strategies
ReportRecent expansions in public health insurance for children and changes in welfare laws present states with the challenge of identifying and enrolling the large population of uninsured children in their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs (CHIP).
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Profiles of Disability: Employment and Health Coverage
ReportThis Background Paper presents information on the disabled population, as well as alternative definitions of disability and the resulting impact on population estimates of the disabled population.
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Managed Care for Low-Income Populations with Special Needs: The Tennessee Experience
ReportThis report focuses on Tennessee's experience in moving their disabled Medicaid beneficiaries into managed care.
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Managed Care and Low-Income Populations: Four Years’ Experience with TennCare
ReportManaged Care and Low-Income Populations: Four Years' Experience with TennCare This report updates an earlier study of Tennessee's experience with restructuring their Medicaid programs. It is one of a series of reports from The Kaiser/ Commonwealth Low-Income Coverage and Access Project.
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Managed Care for Low-Income Populations with Special Needs: The Oregon Experience
ReportThis report focuses on Oregon's experience in moving their disabled Medicaid beneficiaries into managed care. It is one of a series of reports from The Kaiser/Commonwealth Low-Income Coverage and Access Project.
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Managed Care and Low-Income Populations: Four Years’ Experience with the Oregon Health Plan
ReportThis report updates an earlier study of Oregon's experience with restructuring their Medicaid programs. It is one of a series of reports from The Kaiser/Commonwealth Low-Income Coverage and Access Project.
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The Medicaid Eligibility Maze: Coverage Expands, but Problems Persist
ReportThis report examines Medicaid eligibility policies and operations in five states - California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin - following initial changes introduced by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 and the new Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
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Access To Health Care:
ReportPromises and Prospects For Low-Income Americans This book explores critical issues affecting access to health care for low-income Americans by assessing the importance of expansions of health coverage for the poor, the emerging challenges providers who serve low-income and uninsured populations face in a rapidly evolving health care delivery system, and the effects of these…