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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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  • Parents’ Views of Children’s Health Insurance Programs: A Survey of Denied Applicants for Kaiser Permanente’s Child Health Plan

    Poll Finding

    In 1997, Kaiser Permanente launched the Child Health Plan to provide subsidized health insurance for low income California children not eligible for Medi-Cal (California's Medicaid program) or Healthy Families (California's State Children's Health Insurance Program). As part of a broader evaluation of the Child Health Plan funded jointly by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the California HealthCare Foundation, these reports provide findings from a survey of low income parents who were eligible for Medi-Cal or…

  • Legislative Summary: State Children’s Health Insurance Program

    Fact Sheet

    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

  • Talking with Voters About the Uninsured

    Report

    Ten focus groups were conducted with voters April through July 2001, prior to the tragedies of September 11th and broad public recognition of an economic slowdown. The report, Effective Language and Themes for Talking About the Uninsured, finds that at that time: voters were still surprised by basic facts about the uninsured; voters seemed ready for messages about the uninsured that focus on the health and financial consequences of being uninsured, especially those centered on…

  • Compendium of Cultural Competence Initiatives in Health Care

    Report

    Public and private sector organizations are involved in a number of activities that seek to reduce cultural and communication barriers to health care. These activities are often described as cultural competency and/or cross-cultural education. A recent Institute of Medicine report recommended that the health care system pursue several of these techniques as part of a multi-level strategy to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in medical care. To address this need, the Henry J. Kaiser Family…

  • 2001 Retiree Health and Prescription Drug Coverage Survey-6020

    Report

    2001 Retiree Health and Prescription Drug Coverage Survey This survey, released by the Kaiser Family Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, and HRET, profiles retiree health coverage for Medicare-age (65+) retirees, including the amount retirees pay for coverage compared to active workers, cost-sharing for prescription drugs, and eligibility requirements for retiree benefits. The survey is based on the annual KFF/HRET Employer Health Benefits Survey News Release: New Survey Shows Retiree Health Benefits Continue to Decline Chart Pack

  • Summary of Findings: Privatization of Public Hospitals

    Poll Finding

    This Summary presents background, findings, and data from the Economic and Social Research Institute's (ESRI) full report, Privatization of Public Hospitals. Section I provides background about public hospital conversions, including the role of public hospitals, reasons for conversion, the mechanisms of conversion and new ownership entities, and analysis of national and regional public hospital data. Section II provides a discussion of the five case studies of public hospital conversions and the key findings from the…

  • Retiree Health Trends and Implications of Possible Medicare Reforms – Report

    Report

    Retiree Health Trends and Implications of Possible Medicare Reforms Prepared by: Hewitt Associates LLC Prepared for: Kaiser Medicare Policy Project September 1997 Preparation of this report was supported by The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Grant Number 96-1710B. The study consists of a review and analysis of recent trends in the provision of employer-sponsored health benefits to retirees, as well as an assessment of potential changes to employer-sponsored retiree health plans in the future, including…