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  • New Report Provides State-Level Data on Coverage Gains and Costs of the Medicaid Expansion in Health Reform

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    Analysis Projects Steep Decreases in Uninsured, With Federal Government Covering Vast Majority of CostsWASHINGTON -- The expansion of Medicaid under the new health reform law will significantly increase the number of people covered by the program and markedly reduce the uninsured in states across the country, with the federal government picking up the overwhelming majority of the cost, according to a state-by-state analysis released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU).…

  • Explaining Health Reform: Medicare and the New Independent Payment Advisory Board

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    This brief describes how the new board created under the 2010 health reform law is expected to limit the growth in Medicare spending over time. Starting in 2014, if projected per capita Medicare spending exceeds targets set in the law, the board must recommend ways to reduce Medicare spending, while maintaining quality and access to care for beneficiaries. The board’s recommendations automatically take effect the next year unless Congress adopts an alternative plan to achieve…

  • Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus Program: Moving Forward on Health Reform Amid a Recession

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    This fact sheet provides a brief overview of Wisconsin's BadgerCare Plus Program, a three-year-old initiative that merged the state's three distinct Medicaid programs for children, parents and pregnant women into a single comprehensive health coverage program. It also expanded eligibility to provide near-universal coverage for children and greater coverage for parents and childless adults. As of April 2010, the program provided coverage to 770,000 state residents, including 445,000 children. Fact Sheet (.pdf)

  • Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — May 2010

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    Confusion over the new health reform law declined but remains widespread, with 44 percent of the public saying they were confused in May, compared to 55 percent in April. Moreover, more than a third of Americans (35%) say they do not understand what the impact of the law will be on themselves and their families, while 61 percent report feeling they do understand what that impact will be. Americans continue to report getting information about…

  • KaiserEDU.org Selects Winning Student Essays Identifying Future Health Policy Challenges

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    The Kaiser Family Foundation announced the winners of its fourth annual essay contest today, sponsored by the foundation’s educational health policy website, kaiserEDU.org. The contest invited students to identify the major health policy challenges the nation will face in the year 2015 and discuss how the top two priorities should be addressed. Entries were received from more than 400 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at colleges and universities across the country in a wide range…

  • Expanding Access to Care: More than Just an Insurance Card?

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    The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation co-sponsored this event to explore expanding access to health care as a main goal of health reform. Panelists address the following questions: What provisions exist in the health reform proposals that speak directly to expanding access to health care? What types of payment reforms would help? What are the special challenges faced by rural areas? How are these reforms incorporated into Medicare versus the…

  • Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration — Plenary Panel II: Ethics and Equity Issues of Collaborations for Global Health

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    Moderator: Lilia Macedo de la Concha, National Autonomous Univeristy of Mexico Speakers: Giorgio Solimano, Universidad de Chile Philippe Lamy, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)-Mexico (John) Jack Bryant, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health >>Video that includes original Spanish audio is available here. >>Access the slides for this session. Event Materials Podcast Download

  • Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration — Plenary Panel III: Social Determinants of Health

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    Moderator: Carlos Santos Burgoa, Comite para el Estudio de los Determinantes Sociales de la Salud en Mexico Speakers: Marco Akerman, Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brazil Paulo Buss, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil Jeanette Vega, Ministry of Health, Chile >>Video that includes original Spanish audio is available here. >>Access the slides for this session. Event Materials Podcast Download

  • Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration — Welcome and Panel I: The Role of Institutional Alliances in Advancing Global Health Education

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    Welcome Speakers: Mario Henry Rodriguez, Executive Director, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Anvar Velji, Global Health Education Consortium V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder, Global Health Program, Instituto Nacional de Salud  Publica Richard Deckelbaum, Global Health Education Consortium Plenary Panel I: The role of institutional alliances in advancing global health education Moderator: Mario Henry Rodri­guez, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Speakers: Walter Patrick, South Asian Partnerships for Global Health Antoine Flahualt, Association of European Schools of…

  • Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Provisions in the New Health Reform Law

    Issue Brief

    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 changes. Overall, the new law includes an individual requirement to obtain health insurance, a significant Medicaid expansion and subsidies to help low-income individuals buy coverage…