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KFF’s global health policy work focuses on providing the latest data and information on the U.S. role in global health to offer a comprehensive picture of the U.S. global health policy landscape, focusing on key issues facing policymakers, journalists, non-governmental organizations, and others working in the global health arena.  For…

The Program on the ACA tracks and analyzes key aspects of the Affordable Care Act, including changes in the individual market and trends involving the ACA’s insurance marketplaces. The program examines the implications for the cost, affordability and accessibility of coverage, including proposals to change the 2010 law.

The Program on the Health Care Marketplace provides information and analysis about the health care market, including trends in health insurance, health care costs, and health care services.  The Program focuses specifically on trends in and analysis of employer-sponsored health insurance, including costs and affordability for workers and their employers.

With the nation’s unemployment rate rising to its highest levels in decades as a result of the recession, many families have lost their employer-sponsored health coverage or are at risk of doing so. In an effort to help people maintain coverage after a layoff, the stimulus legislation known as the…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 are now law. But many people have questions about the new reforms. To answer questions about the major provisions of these two laws, the Alliance for Health Reform and The Commonwealth Fund sponsored…

This April 2010 webcast features a discussion of issues and challenges for the Obama Administration’s Global Health Initiative and features three senior-level officials involved in the initiative, as well as outside perspectives of the challenges it faces.

This timeline highlights the implementation dates for provisions in the new health reform law that are related to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. While major expansions of Medicaid are set to occur in 2014, many other key provisions in the health reform law become effective between 2010 and…

Track E: Current Issues in Global Health: Teaching and learning Title: Innovations in Teaching Moderators: Robin Paetzold, Carver College of Medicine at University of Iowa; Jessica Evert, Global Health Education Consoritum, University of California at San Francisco, Department of Family & Community Medicine Speaker: Global Health Education: Integrating competencies in…

Plenary Panel VI Title: Lessons Learned from the Influenza A(H1N1) Pandemic Moderator: Lourdes Garcia Garcia, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública Speakers: Jarbas Barbosa, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)-DC Hugo Lopez Gatell, Deputy Director General of the Epidemiological Directorate, at the Ministry of Health, Mexico Michael D. McDonald, President, Global Health…

Interviews- Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration