Medicare and End-of-Life Care in California
This infographic provides a snapshot of Medicare and end-of-life care in California.
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CBO’s Estimate of Repealing Exchange Grants: The Importance of Being Effective
PerspectiveThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released an analysis of a bill that would repeal grants to states under the health reform law to help them establish health insurance purchasing exchanges.
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Data Note: Variation in Per Enrollee Medicaid Spending
Fact SheetThis data note looks at Medicaid spending per full-benefit enrollee, examining variation by state and by eligibility group, as well as variation within a given state and eligibility group.
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What Might a Trump Administration Mean for Medicaid?
News ReleaseThis new fact sheet examines key questions around the potential changes President-elect Donald Trump and the next Congress may seek to make in Medicaid, a program that covers 73 million people nationally.
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Overview of Medicaid Per Capita Cap Proposals
Issue BriefThe House Republican Plan (“A Better Way”) released on June 22, 2016, includes a proposal to convert federal Medicaid financing from an open-ended entitlement to a per capita allotment or a block grant (based on a state choice). This proposal is part of a larger package designed to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and reduce federal spending for health care. Often tied to deficit reduction, proposals to convert Medicaid’s financing structure to a per capita cap or block grant have been proposed before. Such changes represent a fundamental change in the financing structure of the program with major implications for beneficiaries, providers, states and localities. Key things to understand about a per capita cap include the following: how a per capita cap works, key design challenges, and implications of a per capita cap.
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Enrollment-Driven Expenditure Growth: Medicaid Spending During the Economic Downturn, FY 2007-2011
ReportThis report presents data on changes in Medicaid's enrollment and spending between federal fiscal year 2007 and federal fiscal year 2011, a period which includes the worst economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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New Reports Find States Expecting 7.4 Percent Growth in Medicaid Spending In Fiscal Year 2011 As the Recession’s Lingering Effects Drive Up Enrollment
News ReleaseStates Face New Budget and Workforce Challenges As Temporary Federal Aid Nears End And Health Reform Planning Heats Up WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Majority Want No Spending Cuts to Education, Medicare or Social Security
FeatureMajority Want No Spending Cuts to Education, Medicare or Social Security Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health, The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress (conducted January 3-9, 2013)…
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Support For Various Deficit Reducing Changes to Medicare
FeatureSupport-For-Various-Deficit-Reducing-Changes-To-Medicare-POLLING Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health, The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress (conducted January 3-9, 2013)…
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Medicare as a Share of the Federal Budget, 2012
FeatureMedicare as a Share of the Federal Budget, 2012 Download Source Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Medicare Baseline, May 2013.