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  • Laurie Sobel

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    Laurie Sobel is an associate director for Women’s Health Policy at KFF. Her work addresses the impact of major health policy issues on women and girls, with an emphasis on insurance coverage, and access challenges facing women who are underserved or marginalized. Sobel leads KFF’s work tracking the implementation of contraceptive coverage, state abortion laws, and legal challenges involving access to reproductive health care. She is the author of numerous publications explaining complex rapidly changing…

  • Medicaid Enrollment Under the Affordable Care Act: Understanding the Numbers

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    This issue brief walks through data recently released from Health and Human Services (HHS) and what it can and cannot tell us about the number of people that have applied for Medicaid since open enrollment for health insurance marketplaces began, how many have enrolled, and what the role of the ACA is in recent Medicaid coverage gains.

  • A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Review of the Contraceptive Coverage Requirement

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    This issue brief dissects the issues raised by the legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that private insurance plans include contraception as part of their coverage of preventive services for women. Over 40 for-profit corporations and over 40 nonprofit corporations have filed lawsuits claiming that the requirement to provide their employees with contraceptives violates their religious rights. On November 26, 2013, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases filed by for-profit corporations,…

  • Webinar for Journalists: How the Affordable Care Act Affects Baby Boomers and Medicare Beneficiaries

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    As part of the "Covering Health Reform" series, this webinar focused on the major changes facing older people. The Foundation's Associate Director of the Program on Medicare Policy, Juliette Cubanski and Senior Fellow Karen Pollitz discussed how the Affordable Care Act impacts Medicare benefits and beneficiaries, as well as the ACA's role for baby boomers who are not yet 65 and eligible for Medicare.

  • Paying for Prescribed Drugs in Medicaid: Current Policy and Upcoming Changes

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    The federal government has proposed new rules that aim to make Medicaid outpatient drug reimbursement policies more closely match the cost of obtaining and filling prescriptions. However, the change in policy may have varying effects on reimbursement, depending on the state’s current approach and the type of drug in question. This paper explains current Medicaid pharmacy reimbursement methodology and examines the potential effect of the proposed rule changes.

  • Medicare and the Federal Budget: Comparison of Medicare Provisions in Recent Federal Debt and Deficit Reduction Proposals

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    This brief provides a side-by-side comparison of Medicare provisions included in broad-based packages to reduce the deficit and debt put forward by the President and the Chairmen of the House and Senate Budget Committees. In addition, this brief summarizes Medicare provisions included in other deficit- and debt- reduction proposals released since January 2012 and describes recent activities that pertain to Medicare and the federal budget, including Medicare’s role in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the…

  • Medigap Reform: Setting the Context for Understanding Recent Proposals

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    This brief presents the most current data available on the Medicare supplemental insurance (Medigap) market, including enrollment and premiums by state and plan type, analyzes how many beneficiaries have first dollar coverage (particularly Plans C and F), and describes recent Medigap proposals that have emerged as part of efforts to reduce Medicare spending and the national debt.

  • Donor Government Assistance for Family Planning in 2012

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    This report establishes a baseline level of donor government funding for family planning activities in 2012 that can be used to track total international assistance funding levels for family planning over time as well as commitments donor governments made at last year's London Summit on Family Planning. It finds donor governments provided about US$900 million in bilateral funding for family planning programs in 2012, and an additional US$432 million in core contributions to the United…

  • Getting into Gear for 2014: Shifting New Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment Policies into Drive

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    On January 1, 2014, many key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will start to go into effect, including the expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults and the launch of new Medicaid eligibility and enrollment processes, which are designed to move toward a coordinated enrollment system across health coverage programs, including Medicaid, CHIP, and the new Health Insurance Marketplaces. Over the past year, states have made steady and significant progress preparing for these changes,…

  • State Marketplace Profiles: Maryland

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    Final update made on November 13, 2013 (no further updates will be made)  Establishing the Marketplace On April 12, 2011, Governor Martin O’Malley (D) signed SB 182/HB 166 into law establishing the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange (MBHE).1   In May of the following year, Governor O’Malley signed additional Marketplace legislation (SB 372/HB 433) which addressed multiple Marketplace implementation and operational issues and was based on recommendations by the Board of Directors and advisory groups from 2011.2 …