Survey of Physicians and Nurses
A national random survey of 1053 doctors and 768 nurses on their experiences with and attitudes towards health plans.
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Health Coverage for Latino Children: Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program
Other PostHealth Coverage for Latino Children: Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program An overview of Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and health care coverage for Latino Children. This issue brief was released at a briefing for Hispanic and Latino Media in Los Angeles, CA on June 24, 1999.
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The Key to the Door: Medicaid’s Role in Improving Health Care for Women and Children
ReportThis article, authored by Diane Rowland, Alina Salganicoff, and Patricia Keenan of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, assesses Medicaid's contributions as a public financing program for health insurance coverage for the poor over the last three decades.
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Health Insurance Coverage of Low-Wage Workers
Fact SheetThis fact sheet summarizes the reasons why low-wage workers are less likely to have employer-sponsored health insurance than workers with higher incomes and therefore, are more likely to be uninsured.
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Managed Care For Low-Income Populations with Special Needs: The Tennessee Experience
ReportThis paper provides a targeted review of Tennessee's experience providing health care to individuals with special needs under TennCare, its Medicaid managed care initiative. The first part reviews the experience of TennCare Partners, the behavioral health carve-out program created in 1996. The second part reviews how TennCare's structure affects the disabled and chronically ill.
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Regulating the Quality of Abortion Services: Politics or Good Medicine?
ReportA growing trend by state legislatures to pass tough regulations on abortion services begs the questions: Do these rules help to ensure the health and safety of abortion patients and the quality of abortion services? Or, as some abortion rights groups have suggested, are they designed to put abortion providers out of business? National Committee…
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Employment-Based Health Insurance Coverage and its Decline:-2134
ReportEmployment-Based Health Insurance Coverage and its Decline:The Growing Plight of Low-Wage Workers This background paper examines the increase in uninsured workers and the growing disparity in health insurance coverage between low- and high-wage workers.
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The Changing Medicaid Managed Care Market
ReportTrends in Commercial Plans' Participation This background paper analyzes the trends in commercial plan participation in the Medicaid market by using a database specifically designed for this purpose. It examines changes from mid-1996 to mid-1997 in the types of full-risk plans serving Medicaid Beneficiaries.
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California’s Undocumented Latino Immigrants: A Report on Access to Health Care Services
ReportCalifornia's Undocumented Latino Immigrants: A Report on Access to Health Care Services This report provides the results of a survey of undocumented Latino immigrants in two California counties (Fresno and Los Angeles), including their access to health care services, insurance status, health status, and economic circumstances.
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Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University School of Public Health: Update on Americans’ Views on the Consumer Protections Debate
Poll FindingKaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University School of Public Health: Update on Americans' Views on the Consumer Protections DebateThe Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University School of Public Health Update on American's Views on Consumer Protections in Managed Care is based on findings from the April 1999 Kaiser/Harvard Health News Index.