New Orleans Five Years After the Storm: A New Disaster Amid Recovery
This 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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Health Reform Implementation: When Sausage-Making Moves Downtown
Event Date:EventPanelists at this briefing examine what's happening behind the scenes to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. An overview of federal policymaking and the efforts by stakeholders and others to affect final policies pertaining to the health reform law is provided.
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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.
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Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Plus Program: Moving Forward on Health Reform Amid a Recession
Fact SheetThis fact sheet provides a brief overview of Wisconsin's BadgerCare Plus Program, a three-year-old initiative that merged the state's three distinct Medicaid programs for children, parents and pregnant women into a single comprehensive health coverage program. It also expanded eligibility to provide near-universal coverage for children and greater coverage for parents and childless adults.
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Explaining Health Care Reform: Questions About the Extension of Dependent Coverage to Age 26
Issue BriefThe new health reform law requires private health insurers that offer dependent coverage to children to allow young adults up to age 26 to remain on their parent's insurance plan.
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Optimizing Medicaid Enrollment: Perspectives on Strengthening Medicaid’s Reach Under Health Care Reform
Issue BriefThe health reform law creates a national plan for near-universal health coverage that relies on a large expansion of Medicaid eligibility as its foundation.
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Medicaid Coverage and Spending in Health Reform: National and State-By-State Results for Adults at or Below 133% FPL
ReportThis analysis, performed by the Urban Institute for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, shows that the expansion of Medicaid under the health reform law will significantly increase the number of people covered by the program and reduce the uninsured in states across the country, with the federal government picking up the vast…
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What’s in There? The New Health Reform Law and Private Insurance
Event Date:EventThis briefing focuses on how the reform law affects access to private coverage, including the new federal high-risk pools, tax credits for small businesses, health insurance exchanges, the individual mandate and employer obligations. This briefing, cosponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation, explored these and other issues.
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The New Health Reform Law and Medicaid
Event Date:EventThis briefing, cosponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation, explores the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HCERA).
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Expanding Medicaid under Health Reform: A Look at Adults at or below 133% of Poverty
Issue BriefThis issue brief from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured examines the key characteristics of the 17.1 million low-income uninsured adults who currently have incomes that would qualify them for Medicaid under the expansion of the program in health reform.