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    Mollyann Brodie

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    Mollyann Brodie is executive vice president and chief operating officer of KFF and executive director of its Public Opinion and Survey Research Program. As COO, Dr. Brodie oversees KFF’s budgeting, human resources, facilities management and the executive operations of the president’s office and board of trustees. As head of Public Opinion and Survey Research, she oversees KFF’s polling, including the COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor, the monthly Health Tracking Poll and ongoing survey partnerships with news organizations.…

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    Jennifer Kates

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    Dr. Jennifer Kates is senior vice president and director of the Global and Public Health Policy Program at KFF, where she oversees policy analysis and research focused on the U.S. government’s role in global health and on the global and domestic HIV epidemics. She also helps lead KFF’s work on public health issues, including on vaccine policy. Widely regarded as an expert in the field, she regularly publishes and presents on global health and HIV…

  • Poll Finds Bipartisan Public Support For Creating State Insurance Exchanges Despite Continuing Party Divisions Over the ACA

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    More Americans Back Than Oppose State Medicaid Expansions But, Like Many Governors, Public Splits Along Party Lines On The Federal Deficit, Public Wants Action But Still Resists Most Cuts and Sacrifices, Especially to Medicare A majority of Americans put the creation of state-based health insurance exchanges at the top of the priority list for health policy in their state this year, according to a survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood…

  • The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress

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    As the 113th Congress is sworn in, and President Barack Obama begins his second term of office, a comprehensive new Kaiser Family Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey queried the public about their priorities for, and views on, a wide range of health and health policy issues. These include issues that will preoccupy federal lawmakers, such as the role of Medicare in the deficit reduction debate, as well as issues currently being…

  • Transparency and Complexity

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    This fall a new rule takes effect requiring all private health plans to offer a uniform, simple to read, summary of benefits and coverage (SBC).  The SBC will provide consumers with standardized information about how plans cover essential health benefits and what coverage limits and cost sharing applies. The SBC is one of the most popular provisions of the ACA.  Consumers often find health insurance difficult to understand and would no doubt welcome a plainly written…

  • Policy Options to Sustain Medicare for the Future

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    With Medicare expected to be a key part of Washington’s ongoing debate about solutions to reduce the federal budget and national debt, this report serves as a compendium of policy options that may be discussed in upcoming budget debates. The report presents a wide array of options in several areas and lays out the possible implications of these options for Medicare beneficiaries, health care providers, and others, as well as estimates of potential savings, when…

  • 2012 Survey of Americans on the U.S. Role in Global Health

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    The 2012 Survey of Americans on the U.S. Role in Global Health is the fourth in a series that aims to examine the American public’s views, knowledge and opinions of U.S. efforts to improve health for people in developing countries.

  • Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives

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    In this post, we answer some of the key questions about the new contraceptive coverage policy generally, and more specifically, how it will be applied to religious organizations.

  • HIV/AIDS at 30: A Public Opinion Perspective

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    As the HIV/AIDS epidemic marks its thirtieth year, the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted its eighth large-scale national survey of Americans on HIV/AIDS.

  • Americans Remain Divided Over Health Reform With An Uptick In Public Opposition As GOP Ramped Up Repeal Campaign

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    As Many Americans Would Like To Keep or Expand Health Reform Law As Would Like To Repeal Or Replace It, And Most Oppose Defunding Implementation Public Concerned About The Deficit But A Majority Opposes Cutting Medicare And Social Security And Nearly Half Are Against Cutting Medicaid WASHINGTON - Though the public remains divided on health reform overall, opposition to the new law ticked upward in January as Republicans ramped up efforts to repeal it, according…