Subsidizing COBRA: An Option for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage
This paper examines a method for making health insurance more affordable to people who may lose health insurance when they lose or change jobs.
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Expanding Health Insurance Through Tax Reform
ReportThis paper discusses the impacts of the Heritage Foundation proposal for expanding health insurance coverage. Under the proposed tax reform, the employer tax exclusion and all other deductions for health-related expenses would be repealed. A new refundable tax credit would be created for unreimbursed medical expenses.
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Public Subsidies and Private Markets: Coverage Expansions in the Current Insurance Environment
ReportMany proposals for incremental expansion of health insurance coverage would provide subsidies for the purchase of nongroup policies.
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Incrementalism: Ethical Implications of Policy Choices
ReportThis paper discusses ethical issues in incremental approaches to expanding health insurance coverage. Although any reduction in the number of uninsured is morally desirable, there are real moral differences between different policy options.
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Expansions in Public Health Insurance and Crowd-Out: What the Evidence Says
ReportEnactment of the Children's Health Insurance Program has been accompanied by concerns that new coverage will "crowd out" private health insurance coverage. Part of the Kaiser Incremental Health Reform Project, this paper reviews existing empirical literature on the magnitude of crowd-out and discusses implications for CHIP.
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Making Child Health Coverage a Reality: Lessons From Case Studies of Medicaid and CHIP Outreach and Enrollment Strategies
ReportRecent expansions in public health insurance for children and changes in welfare laws present states with the challenge of identifying and enrolling the large population of uninsured children in their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs (CHIP).
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Race, Ethnicity & Medical Care: A Survey of Public Perceptions and Experiences
Poll FindingToplines This is a copy of the results of a telephone survey conducted on a random, national sample of nearly 4,000 African American, Latino and white adults, 18 years of age and older. The questions were designed to reveal what each respondent believed about the impact of race and ethnicity on medical care today.
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Implementation of Managed Care Consumer Protections in Missouri, New Jersey, Texas & Vermont
ReportThis study goes beyond the legislative debates over expanded patients' rights to explore how managed care consumer protections have actually been implemented in four states (Missouri, New Jersey, Texas & Vermont) all of which have been active in this area.
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The Second Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Health Care in South Africa
ReportThe 2nd Annual Kaiser Family Foundation National Household Survey of approximately 4,000 South African households measures changes since the first survey (in 1998) in key demographics, public health, and health status indicators.
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Medicare State Profiles: State and Regional Data on Medicare and the Population it Serves
ReportAlthough Medicare is a national program, there are substantial variations across states and regions in terms of beneficiary characteristics, health needs, and utilization of Medicare-covered services. Likewise, there are also considerable differences in Medicare spending and the emergence of Medicare managed care.