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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…
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…
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…
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
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
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…
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…
The health reform law creates a national plan for near-universal health coverage that relies on a large expansion of Medicaid eligibility as its foundation. This brief draws on recent interviews with Medicaid program directors and other experts about the opportunities that health reform presents to optimize Medicaid by strengthening its enrollment and renewal operations and recasting it as an affordable health coverage program for working people and families. Executive Summary (.pdf) Issue Brief (.pdf)
Many Provisions That Take Effect in 2010 Are Popular and Have Bipartisan Support Cable News Tops List of the Public’s “Most Important” Information Sources MENLO PARK, Calif. –The first Kaiser Health Tracking Poll fielded since the passage of health reform last month finds that 8 in 10 Americans know that President Obama signed the legislation into law. But 55 percent say they are confused about the law and more than half (56%) say they don’t yet have…
This analysis, performed by the Urban Institute for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, shows that the expansion of Medicaid under the health reform law will significantly increase the number of people covered by the program and reduce the uninsured in states across the country, with the federal government picking up the vast majority of the cost. The analysis is among the first to show for all 50 states and the District of…
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