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Moderator: Jaime Sepulveda, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Speakers: Carlos Garcia de Alba, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico Mauricio Hernandez Avila, Ministry of Health, Mexico Tom Novotny, San Diego State University Video that includes original Spanish audio is available here.

KFF’s Program on Medicare Policy provides timely information, research, and analysis on the Medicare program, with a focus on issues of concern to the population of older adults and people with long-term disabilities covered by Medicare. The program’s data and analysis serve as a key resource for policymakers, the media, advocacy…

A leader in health policy analysis and health journalism, KFF is dedicated to filling the need for trusted information on national health issues. KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) is a nonprofit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. KFF develops and runs…

This brief compares the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program provisions in the new health reform law with pre-reform law governing those programs. The analysis focuses on Medicaid coverage and financing changes; how Medicaid and CHIP will interface with a new health insurance exchange and other Medicaid benefits and access…

About KFF’s Barbara Jordan Conference Center The KFF’s Barbara Jordan Conference Center is based in the Washington, D.C., building, and includes the KFF Broadcast Studio and the KFF Interactive Health Exhibit Lobby. The building also houses KFF’s Washington, D.C. offices and staff. Interested in the San Francisco Conference Center at…

Now that historic health reform legislation is law, everyone is rightfully focused on implementation. There are two very different ways to look at implementation. One is the more legalistic worm’s eye view, which sees implementation largely as the process of putting into effect what was written in the law. In…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed into law in March 2010, made broad changes to the way health insurance will be provided and paid for in the United States. PPACA created a new mechanism for purchasing coverage called Exchanges, which are entities that will be set up…

The health reform law relies on a large expansion of Medicaid to reach many low-income uninsured people, many of them adults. This fact sheet summarizes Medicaid beneficiaries’ experience in obtaining access to care, a subject that is of keen interest in view of the planned expansion of the program. Medicaid…

One year after the federal government intervened to aid the automakers, the Foundation along with The Washington Post and Harvard School of Public Health surveyed the residents of the tri-county Detroit area of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne Counties to ask about their views and experiences in the midst of the…