A Profile of Health Insurance Exchange Enrollees
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act calls for the creation of Health Insurance Exchanges in all states by January 1, 2014.
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Medicaid Matters: Understanding Medicaid’s Role in Our Health Care System
Fact SheetThis fact sheet provides key information about the Medicaid program and its role in our health care system and state economies. The nation’s public health insurance program for low-income people is counter-cyclical, expanding during the recent recession to assist millions of individuals and families affected by the loss of jobs and job-based health insurance.
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Mobile Technology: Smart Tools to Increase Participation in Health Coverage
Issue BriefAs mobile technology advances and cell phone use continues to increase across demographic groups, there is significant potential to tap these technologies to facilitate enrollment in and retention of health coverage, in both the immediate term and as health reform is implemented.
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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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Research Brief: Insurance Coverage and Access to Care in Primary Care Shortage Areas
Issue BriefAs both federal and state governments gear up to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), concerns about the supply and distribution of physicians, particularly primary care physicians, are being raised.
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Health Reform Hits Main Street
VideoThis short cartoon explains the problems with the current health care system, the health reform changes that are happening now, and the big changes coming in 2014 as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). You can view the video on our site and it is also available on YouTube.
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Expanding Coverage to Adults through Medicaid Under Health Reform: Key Issues to Consider for Implementation
Issue BriefThe Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured convened a roundtable discussion on June 23, 2010 with a group of federal and state officials and experts to discuss key issues related to reaching, enrolling and delivering care to adults in Medicaid under health reform.
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Health Reform and Communities of Color: Implications for Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Issue BriefThis issue brief examines the key provisions of the 2010 health reform law that will expand health coverage and are likely to improve access to care for people of color, as well as some of the other provisions that will likely have either a direct or indirect impact on health disparities. Issue Brief (.
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New Orleans Five Years After the Storm: A New Disaster Amid Recovery
Poll FindingThis comprehensive survey of the experiences of New Orleans residents is the third in a series conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation since 2005.
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Uninsured and Untreated: A Look at Uninsured Adults Who Received No Medical Care for Two Years
Issue BriefWith Medicaid set to expand under health reform, the program will begin to reach individuals who have previously had little interaction with the health care system.