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  • Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: What are the Options?

    Issue Brief

     Download PDF Racial and ethnic disparities in health care – whether in insurance coverage, access, or quality of care – are one of many factors producing inequalities in health status in the United States.1  Eliminating these disparities is politically sensitive and challenging in part because their causes are intertwined with a contentious history of race relations in America. Nonetheless, assuring greater equity and accountability of the health care system is important to a growing constituency…

  • Women’s Health and Election 2008

    Issue Brief

     Download PDF Women consistently cite health care as one of the top issues they want the Presidential candidates to address, reflecting their experiences with the health care system as patients, mothers, and caregivers for frail and disabled family members.  Women’s priorities for health care reform cut across many critical topics, including health insurance coverage and affordability, the cornerstones of the candidates’ health proposals, as well as long-term care, delivery system issues, and reproductive health.  This…

  • Voters and Health Reform in the 2008 Presidential Election

    Poll Finding

    This analysis, published in the November 6, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), finds that seven in ten registered voters say major changes are needed in the U.S. health care system. The article is the second in a series of reports published in NEJM examining how the election can provide insights about future health policy. The article examines the public’s perceptions of the state of the American health care system, the role of health…

  • Spotlight on Low-Income Uninsured Young Adults: Causes and Consequences

    Issue Brief

    Spotlight on Low-Income Uninsured Young Adults: Causes and Consequences This brief is the latest in a series using data from the 2005 Kaiser Low-Income Coverage and Access Survey to examine health coverage, access, and financial burdens associated with health care for young adults ages 19 to 29 in low-income families. The findings demonstrate that many low-income uninsured young adults experience problems gaining access to needed health care, with adverse consequences for both their health and…

  • 2008 Presidential Candidates: Health Care Issues Side-by-Side

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    Health care has been an important issue in the 2008 presidential campaign and the candidates have staked out positions on key health care issues. Both major party candidates have developed comprehensive health care reform proposals addressing health coverage and access, rising health care costs and health care quality. The side-by-side comparison available here focuses on important health care issues not necessarily addressed in the candidates' health care reform proposals. It was prepared by the Kaiser…

  • Health Affairs Article: Florida’s Medicaid Reform: Informed Consumer Choice?

    Report

    Health Affairs Article: Florida's Medicaid Reform: Informed Consumer Choice? Florida's Medicaid reform program aims to encourage consumer choice and market competition by giving health plans new authority to vary benefits and having enrollees choose among the different plans. However, about three in 10 enrollees were not aware that they needed to make this health plan choice and over half of those who were aware reported difficulty making a plan choice, according to a Health Affairs…

  • Pulling It Together: What Do We Want Health Insurance To Be?

    Perspective

    Trends in the health insurance marketplace show substantial growth in high deductible health plans, especially among smaller firms, where 35% of workers are now covered by plans with a deductible of $1,000 or more. That's according to our recently released employer health benefits survey, which we have been conducting now for ten years. The majority of these plans are simply high deductible health plans; only a minority are so-called "consumer driven" plans with savings accounts.…

  • Health Care Costs and Election 2008

    Issue Brief

     Download PDF KEY FACTS ON HEALTH CARE COSTS Health spending in the United States is an estimated $2.4 trillion in 2008, an average of $7,868 per person The share of the economy (GDP) devoted to national health spending has increased from 7.2% in 1970 to an estimated 16.6% in 2008 Eighteen percent of the nonelderly were in families that spent over 10% of their disposable on out-of-pocket health care premiums and cost sharing in 2004.…

  • International Health Journalism Fellowship Project: Africa: CNN Award

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    International Health Journalism Fellowship Project: Kaiser/CNN Awards for Excellence in HIV Reporting in Africa About The Award Since 2006, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and CNN/MultiChoice have teamed up to offer the Kaiser/CNN Award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Reporting in Africa. The award, presented as part of the prestigious CNN/MultiChoice African Journalist Awards, is part of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s global effort to increase and sustain media coverage of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to improve…

  • Medicare Now and in the Future

    Issue Brief

    Download PDF Issue Medicare is a valuable source of health insurance for nearly 45 million Americans – mainly seniors ages 65 and older, but also 7 million younger adults with permanent disabilities.  Before Medicare was signed into law in 1965, about half of all seniors lacked hospital insurance.  Today, virtually all people ages 65 and over are covered by Medicare.  Medicare is a popular program, but faces a number of issues and challenges in the…