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This case study describes the first year's experience of Tennessee's initiative, TennCare. The TennCare experience provides early insights into the issues that states will face as they move to enroll more of their low-income populations into managed care arrangements.
Among Issues, Voters See Health Reform As Top Priority for New Congress But Reject Major Overhaul of System For More Modest Approach Embargoed for release: 12:00
Medicare: Holes in the Safety Net This report discusses findings from focus groups that consisted of those individuals who interact with the Medicare program, including beneficiaries, health professionals, caretakers, and program management staff.
An analysis of the potential financial impact of the California Health Security Act -- the single payer initiative defeated by voters on the November 1994 ballot -- on the state's budget and health expenditures, businesses, and families.
An examination of the major decisions states face in designing health reforms, as well as their capacity to implement them.
California Election Night Survey On Ballot Initiatives Anti-government Mood Defeats Proposition 186 A Perception That Undocumented Persons Use Costly Services Drives Vote For Proposition 187 Embargoed for release: 12:00
A comparison of the House (Gephardt/Foley) and Senate (Mitchell) leadership health reform bills and the Administration's Health Security Act to the current health care system in each of 14 different categories.
A comparison of the health reform proposals by the Congressional committees with jurisdiction -- House Ways and Means, Education, and Labor, and Senate Finance, Labor and Human Resources Committees -- and the Administration's Health Security Act to the current health care system in each of 14 different categories.
Warning: Inadequate Low-Income Subsidy Design Can Cause Problems for Health Care Reform This report examines potential adverse consequences of low-income subsidy systems contained in the leading health care reform approaches including: work disincentives as a result of high marginal taxrates; employer incentives to drop coverage; and loss of coverage due to budgetary control mechanisms.
Health Care Reform: The Long Term Care Factor Note: This publication is no longer in circulation. However, a copy may still exist in the Foundation's internal library that could be reproduced. Please email order@kff.org if you would like to pursue this option.
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