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  • NewsHour/Kaiser Survey Underscores Difficulties Faced by Those Without Health Insurance

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    The National Survey on the Uninsured from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and the Kaiser Family Foundation is this year's first nationwide survey on Americans' attitudes about the growing uninsured population and the difficulties uninsured people face getting medical care. The survey also assesses public attitudes on options to address the problem. News Release: NewsHour/Kaiser Survey Spotlights Misconceptions About the Medically Uninsured National Survey of the Uninsured Toplines/Survey Key Facts Chart Pack Fact Sheet Public…

  • Statewide Surveys of Californians on Public Attitudes Toward the Single Payer Ballot Initiatives (Proposition 186)

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    California Election Night Survey On Ballot Initiatives Anti-government Mood Defeats Proposition 186 A Perception That Undocumented Persons Use Costly Services Drives Vote For Proposition 187 Embargoed for release: 12:00 p.m. EST, Tuesday, November 15, 1994 For more information contact: Matt James or Tina Hoff Menlo Park, CA -- A Kaiser/Harvard survey of Californians in the 1994 election has found that the principal reason voters rejected Proposition 186, the state single payer initiative, was their concern…

  • Privatization of Public Hospitals

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    This report examines the trends in the closure of public hospitals and their conversion to private ownership. It also provides case studies of communities where major privatizations have occurred. Report (.pdf) Summary of Findings (.pdf)

  • Report and Summary of Findings

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    Privatization of Public Hospitals Full Report available in PDF format.Summary available in PDF format.Return to top Privatization of Public HospitalsReport

  • Immigrants’ Health Coverage and Access

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    New 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. News Release: Recent Immigrants Have Had Little Impact on the Growth in America's Uninsured Population Issue Paper: Is Immigration Responsible for the Growth in the Number of the Uninsured? Fact Sheet: Immigrants' Health Care Coverage and Access Chart…

  • Access to Care for S-CHIP Adolescents

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    The second in a series of reports on implementation issues and challenges in the first year of S-CHIP finds that the five study states have not focused special attention on the unique service needs of this age group, such as risk assessment and counseling, reproductive and sexual health services, and mental health services, when designing their programs. REPORT Download

  • Is There a Common Ground? Affiliations Between Catholic and Non-Catholic Health Care Providers and

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    3. The Affiliation Process and the Role of Reproductive Health Services in the case studies The four case studies conducted for this project provide insight into the affiliation process between Catholic and non-Catholic health care providers and the role of reproductive health services in the process. The four successfully negotiated affiliations studied included an acquisition, a merger, a consolidation, and a 50/50 joint venture. (See Figure 1 for a summary of the contextual, organizational, and…

  • Legislative Summary: State Children’s Health Insurance Program

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    This 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. Fact Sheet Fact Sheet

  • Women, Work, and Family Health: A Balancing Act

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    This issue brief examines women's roles in family health care decision-making and coordination, the effect of that involvement for women who work, and women's caregiving responsibilities. This analysis is based on data from the 2001 Kaiser Women's Health Survey, a nationally representative sample of nearly 4,000 women between the ages of 18 and 64. Issue brief (.pdf) News Release: Mothers Still Carry Primary Responsibility for Family Health -- Tradeoffs Between Caring for Children and Job Earnings…