Health Care After the Supreme Court Decision: What’s Next?
The Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation discuss the recent Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the health reform law.
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Oral Health and Medicare Beneficiaries: Coverage, Out-of-Pocket Spending, and Unmet Need
Issue BriefThis brief describes the oral health of Medicare beneficiaries, examines sources of dental coverage for the Medicare population, and examines the utilization of dental services, out-of-pocket spending on dental care, and access problems.
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Filling the Gaps: Dental Care, Coverage and Access
Event Date:EventWhile the Affordable Care Act is expected to expand public and private coverage for children when it takes effect in 2014, significant gaps will remain, especially for low-income adults age 21 and older. This June 19, 2012, a public forum at the Foundation's Washington, D.C.
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The Right Care at the Right Time: Are Retail Clinics Meeting a Need?
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform and WellPoint, Inc. discuss the role of urgent care centers and retail clinics emerging within the health care system.
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KFF Health Security Watch Delaying Health Care to Avoid Cost Common
PerspectiveWhile economic challenges facing the country continue and the Supreme Court is deciding the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), May's Health Tracking Poll finds that the problems and concerns related to health care costs and access are wide-spread.
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Oral Health in the U.S.: Key Facts
Fact SheetThis fact sheet provides data on oral health care coverage and access for children, nonelderly adults and Medicaid beneficiaries, including state-by-state data on measures such as the share of adults who have had a dental visit within the past year. Fact Sheet (.
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Children and Oral Health: Assessing Needs, Coverage and Access
Issue BriefThis policy brief highlights the prevalence of dental problems among children and examines gaps in oral health coverage and access to dental care, as well as disparities by income and race/ethnicity.
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Access to Affordable Dental Care: Gaps for Low-Income Adults
Issue BriefThis policy brief provides data and analysis of coverage and access to oral health care for low-income nonelderly adults. Lack of resources to pay for dental services, either through dental insurance or out-of-pocket, is a major barrier to oral health care for many low-income Americans.
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Cost and Access Challenges: A Comparison of Experiences Between Uninsured and Privately Insured Adults Aged 55 to 64 with Seniors on Medicare
ReportThis analysis looks at the difficulties uninsured people ages 55-64 have accessing and affording health care in 2010. Four in 10 of these near-seniors report having unmet health care needs or delaying treatment, while three in 10 uninsured near-seniors lived in families reporting problems paying their medical bills largely due to the cost.
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Quick Take: Timing Matters: States Waiting for a Supreme Court Decision to Plan an Exchange
Fact SheetState-based health insurance exchanges are an important component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) designed to extend subsidized private health insurance coverage to millions of Americans by 2014.