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  • Medical Care Research and Review

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    Journal Supplement This special supplement of includes: original research tracking trends in disparities in health coverage and access to care over two decades; literature syntheses focused on medical treatment and the decision-making process; legal analysis of civil rights laws in the context of managed care; and findings from a national survey of public awareness of racial inequities in care. The supplement is comprised of work commissioned by the Foundation for its 1999 national policy roundtable,…

  • Portraits of Women on Medicare: The Women of Friendship Terrace

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    This video features five older women who reside in an assisted living community in Washington, DC, as they share their experiences in the Medicare program and offer their insights on ways the program could be improved to better meet the health care needs of seniors. Please note: the video is no longer available.  If you have an urgent need for the video, you may contact us (choose “problem with video” on the form) and we…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • Another Gender Gap?  Men’s Role in Preventing Pregnancy

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    A chart pack, press release, and Q&A prepared for a briefing held in New York on March 19, 1997, co-sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the National Press Foundation and The Alan Guttmacher Institute. This briefing focused on men's role and responsibility in preventing pregnancy. A survey of men's and women's perceptions about men's role and responsibility when it comes to preventing unplanned pregnancy was released as part of this briefing and is also available,…