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There is lots of apocalyptic talk these days about the collapse of the newspaper industry and the challenges facing news organizations.  There is even talk of the unimaginable, my hometown paper The Boston Globe shutting down. Surely they know that Red Sox Nation cannot exist without the Globe Sports pages.…

African Americans in New Orleans Face Much Heavier Burdens and Are Much More Skeptical Than Whites of Fairness of Recovery Efforts But Most Residents See Progress in Rebuilding and Are Generally Hopeful; Only a Small Number Plan to Leave A new house-to-house survey of people living in Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines…

Embargoed for release until: January 26, 2004, 9:30 am ET For further information contact: Devon Scanlon or Jennifer Morales, Kaiser Family Foundation, (202) 347-5270 Margarita Studemeister, Pew Hispanic Center, (202) 452-8967 Barbara Beck, Pew Hispanic Center, (215) 569-3793 LATINOS ARE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION Attitudes Differ from Whites and…

Estimated Cost of a Child Health Program in California Prepared by Gordon R. Trapnell, F.S.A., Actuarial Research Corporation For the Kaiser Family Foundation September 10, 1997SummaryThe Balanced Budget Act of 1997 created a new federal/state program to cover uninsured children. The new federal legislation provides states with a substantial amount…

State AIDS Drug Assistance Programs: A National Status Report on AccessAcknowledgmentsThis report would not have been possible without the generous financial support of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and their continuing commitment to be at the forefront of HIV/AIDS policy issues. The authors would especially like to thank Dr.…

This survey by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University provides a detailed look at the real life experiences and views of low-wage workers and assesses their financial challenges, including difficulties obtaining and paying for health care, their views about their financial and job situations and their…

Embargoed for release until: November 10, 2005, 9:30 a.m. E.T. For further information contact: Craig Palosky, (202) 347-5270 or cpalosky@kff.org Larry Levitt, (650) 854-9400 or llevitt@kff.org AS ENROLLMENT BEGINS, NEW SURVEY UNDERSCORES CHALLENGES IF SENIORS ARE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MEDICARE DRUG BENEFIT Many Seniors Say They Don’t Understand the…

This Policy Insight outlines eight questions that are likely to shape the U.S. global health response in the last two years of the current presidential term and beyond.

This brief examines family budgets of Medicaid enrollees, how health care costs fit into these budgets, and views on how potential changes to health care could affect them based on 21 interviews with Medicaid enrollees in five cities.

With the Georgia runoff elections giving Democrats control of the U.S. Senate, Drew Altman discusses President-elect Biden’s potential health care agenda and suggests that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could have an expanded role and that it may be time to rename it and elevate it to a cabinet agency.