Women Experience Multiple Barriers to Health Care
Women Experience Multiple Barriers to Health Care Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008 Kaiser Women’s Health Survey
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Access to Care by Health Insurance Status, 2011
FeatureAccess to Care by Health Insurance Status, 2011 Download Source KCMU analysis of 2011 NHIS data
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Medicaid Has Many Vital Roles in our Health Care System
FeatureMedicaid Has Many Vital Roles in our Health Care System Download
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Native Americans and Medicaid: Coverage and Financing Issues
Other PostNative Americans and Medicaid:Coverage and Financing Issues Medicaid and Welfare Until 1996, families with children who received cash assistance under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program were automatically entitled to Medicaid coverage. The welfare law enacted that year, Public Law 104-193, repealed the AFDC program and created a Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant to the states. The 1996 welfare law also severed the automatic eligibility linkage between welfare and…
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New Survey Documents Women’s Health Care, Coverage and Early Experiences with the Affordable Care Act
News ReleaseA comprehensive survey released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation provides a snapshot of women and their health coverage and care during a time of transition as important Affordable Care Act insurance market changes began to take root. These include many changes that affect women including a prohibition on using gender in setting premiums, as well as broadening access to a more comprehensive range of preventive services benefits without cost sharing. The Kaiser Women’s Health…
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Visualizing Health Policy: Experiences and Attitudes of Primary Care Practitioners After the ACA
Other PostThis infographic features the experiences and attitudes of primary care practitioners (PCPs) after the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) coverage provisions took effect in early 2014.
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Women’s Health Issues Journal: Women, Private Health Insurance, and the Affordable Care Act
Issue BriefIn this issue of the Women's Health Issues journal, Alina Salganicoff and Laurie Sobel discuss how the private insurance reforms and expansions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have affected access to coverage for women and where gaps remain.
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A Comprehensive Review of Research Finds That the ACA Medicaid Expansion Has Reduced the Uninsured Rate and Increased Access to Care in Expansion States
News ReleaseMultiple studies find that the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion has increased coverage, with enrollment exceeding expectations in some states, while producing budget savings for states and reductions in uncompensated care costs for hospitals, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation review of 61 studies and policy reports. The literature review provides a useful reference on the effects of the ACA Medicaid expansion at a time when the future of the expansion – and the ACA more…
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Summary of HHS’s Final Rule on Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities
Issue BriefOn May 18, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a final rule to implement Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which prohibits discrimination in health coverage and care based on race, color, national origin, age or disability, and, for the first time sex. This Issue Brief provides a technical summary of Section 1557 and the final rule and highlights new protections and provisions included in the law and rule.…
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Insurance Coverage Changes for People with HIV Under the ACA
Issue BriefThis brief provides the first national estimates of changes in insurance coverage among people with HIV since the implementation of the ACA. We find that coverage increased significantly for people with HIV due to the ACA’s Medicaid expansion; indeed, increased Medicaid coverage in expansion states drove a nationwide increase in coverage for people with HIV.