Comparison of Medicare Premium Support Proposals
This brief provides a side-by-side comparison of recent proposals to transform Medicare into a premium support program and slow the future growth in Medicare spending.
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Program Integrity in Medicaid: A Primer
Issue BriefMedicaid covers more than 60 million Americans and accounts for about one in six dollars spent on health care in the United States.
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Chronic Disease Prevention: Saving Lives, Saving Money
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored a July 13 luncheon briefing to discuss whether or not public health investments can help prevent chronic disease and reduce escalating health care costs. For more information, please visit the Alliance's event page.
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The High and Rising Costs Of Health Care: What Can Be Done?
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and several cosponsors held the final event in a three-part series of discussions on costs, the factors driving them up and what (if anything) can be done about them.
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The Health of Safety-Net Hospitals: How are They Faring? What’s the Outlook?
Event Date:EventThe Alliance for Health Reform and The Commonwealth Fund discusses the critical role of safety-net hospitals in providing care to vulnerable populations.
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A Focus Group with Medicaid Directors: As FY 2012 Ends, Looking Toward FY 2013
ReportThis report is based on a focus group discussion in May 2012 with the Executive Board of the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) and other leading Medicaid directors. The group of nine directors reflected perspectives from various regions of the country.
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Prescription Drug Procurement and the Federal Budget
Issue BriefThis brief commissioned by the Foundation considers areas where Medicare faces limited opportunity for market-based competition and price negotiation to drive down drug spending.
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Behavioral Health: Can Primary Care Help Meet the Growing Need?
Event Date:EventThe health reform law has specific provisions covering mental health and substance use conditions, as well as general provisions to benefit those in need of behavioral health services. While addressing unmet needs, the reform law provisions raise new challenges.
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Massachusetts Health Care Reform: Six Years Later
Issue BriefIn 2006, then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed Massachusetts' comprehensive health reform designed to provide near-universal health insurance coverage for state residents. Building on a long history of health reform efforts, the state embarked on an ambitious plan to promote shared individual, employer, and government responsibility.
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Federal Funding Under the Affordable Care Act
Fact SheetThis fact sheet provides highlights from an analysis tracking the flow of federal Affordable Care Act funds to states as reporter in the Department of Health and Human Services grant database as well as periodic reports from HHS and the Internal Revenue Service.