Report and Summary of Findings
Privatization of Public Hospitals Full Report available in PDF format.Summary available in PDF format.
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Immigrants’ Health Coverage and Access
ReportNew and recent publications on immigrant health policy explore some of the complex problems the country faces in expanding health coverage to immigrants and provide basic statistics and facts on the current status of their health care.
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Legislative Summary: State Children’s Health Insurance Program
Fact SheetThis Fact Sheet summarizes eligibility, benefits and cost-sharing, and financing rules of the State Children's Health Insurance Program as well as other child-related Medicaid provisions from the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
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Women’s Health and Election 2008
Issue BriefDownload 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.
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Improving Access to Adult Primary Care in Medicaid: Exploring the Potential Role of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
Issue BriefThe inadequate supply of primary care providers is among the major challenges facing the U.S. health care system. Sixty-five million people live in areas designated by the federal government as having a shortage of primary care providers.
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New Publications Examine SCHIP Experience; Trends in Access to Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage
Fact SheetMaintaining and expanding health coverage for children and parents will likely be in the forefront of health care policy debates in Washington and state capitols in 2007.
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CHIP TIPS: New Federal Funding Available to Cover Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women
Issue BriefThis brief examines a new option under the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 that allows states to receive federal funds for providing Medicaid and CHIP coverage to lawfully residing immigrant children and pregnant women regardless of when they entered the country.
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How Will Uninsured Parents Be Affected By Health Reform?
Issue BriefThis brief examines uninsured parents and how they could be affected by health reform, including estimates of how many might qualify for coverage under a Medicaid expansion, how many would be eligible for subsidies and how many would not be eligible for such help. Issue Brief (.
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Affordability and Health Reform: If We Mandate, Will They (and Can They) Pay?
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform and The Commonwealth Fund co-sponsored this briefing to explore the health reform proposals being considered which may impose responsibilities on both individuals and employers to have and help pay for coverage and whether they will be able to pay the amounts above the subsidies.