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State Health Facts is a KFF project that provides free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the United States. It offers data on specific types of health insurance coverage, including employer-sponsored, Medicaid, Medicare, as well as people who are uninsured by demographic characteristics, including age, race/ethnicity, work status, gender, and income. There are also data on health insurance status for a state's population overall and broken down by age, gender, and income.

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  • Medicare Restructuring: The FEHBP Model A Summary – Report

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    Medicare Restructuring: The FEHBP Model Executive Summary As policymakers consider measures to assure the long-range solvency of Medicare, one option that has received increasing attention is a "premium support" system. Under such a system beneficiaries would choose between the original Medicare fee-for-service program and a variety of competing health plans. They would receive a fixed government contribution toward the plan of their choice and would pay any remaining costs themselves. Proponents of a premium support…

  • Medicare’s Role for Latinos – (Spanish version)

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    Medicare's Role for Latinos - (Spanish version) Note: This publication is no longer in circulation. However, a few copies may still exist in the Foundation's internal library that could be xeroxed. Please email order@kff.org if you would like to pursue this option

  • Native Americans and Medicaid: Coverage and Financing Issues

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    Native Americans and Medicaid:Coverage and Financing Issues Prepared by Andy Schneider and JoAnn Martinez, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities for The Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid December 1997 Table 1: Medicaid Eligibility Thresholds Pregnant Women, Infants and Children (Effective October 1997) Other Eligibility Categories State Pregnant Women and Infants Children Under Age Six Children Ages Six and Older Upper Age Limit Asset Test Required Supplemental Security Income, 1996 Max. AFDC Payments…

  • Assessing Tax Subsidies to Cover the Uninsured

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    Tax Reform to Expand Health Coverage: Administrative Issues and ChallengesPrepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation by Jack Meyer of the Economic and Social Research Institute, this report analyzes the administrative and implementation issues associated with expanding tax subsidies for the purchase of private health insurance. Recent Tax Proposals to Increase Health Insurance CoverageThis report, written by Deloitte & Touche LLP, includes a side-by-side analysis of recent tax proposals by Members of Congress and various health…

  • Uninsured Workers in America

    Fact Sheet

    The fact sheet describes the characteristics of uninsured workers, the availability of and participation in job-based coverage, and reasons why workers are uninsured. Fact Sheet (.pdf)

  • Optimizing Medicaid Enrollment: Spotlight on Technology – Louisiana’s Express Lane Eligibility

    Issue Brief

    This piece looks at how Louisiana uses “express lane eligibility" to increase and streamline the enrollment of low-income children in its Medicaid program. It is the first in a Spotlight on Technology series profiling several states' innovative applications of technology to Medicaid enrollment efforts. The series illustrates a range of approaches that states can adopt to improve their systems now and to prepare for the expansion of Medicaid under health reform. Spotlight (.pdf)