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Making Sense of the Census Uninsured Numbers
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission and Medicaid and the Uninsured discuss the Census uninsured numbers. The Census Bureau announced that the number of people without health insurance dropped from 50 million to 48.6 million in 2011, marking the first decrease since 2007.
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Physician Workforce: The Next Generation
Event Date:EventThe new health reform law poses questions about how the increase in the insured population will affect the demand on the health care workforce.
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Keeping Coverage Continuous: Smoothing the Path between Medicaid and the Exchange
Event Date:EventA key challenge for those implementing the reform law is how to manage churning, when people cycle in and out of public programs as their income varies.
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Medicaid: A Primer on the Federal-State Partnership
Event Date:EventThis briefing provided an overview of the Medicaid program and its role in the health care system. Panelists discussed who is eligible for Medicaid, what benefits are covered, how the program is administered. Medicaid financing and the program’s role in health reform was also explained.
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Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: Are More Caution and Oversight Needed?
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform and AARP sponsor an August 3rd briefing to discuss who is being served by Medicaid managed care, how enrollment is determined, and whether sufficient oversight of the programs exist.
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Children’s Health Coverage: Medicaid, CHIP, and Next Steps
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation co-sponsored this briefing to examine the factors which influence children's coverage.