Home Financing Tags

View the Latest: Financing

Filter

List Grid

471-480 of 604 results

  • What’s at Stake in a Potential Repeal of the ACA Medicaid Expansion?

    News Release

    President-elect Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with an alternative plan. There are now 32 states (including DC) that have adopted the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. While the details of a repeal-and-replace plan are not yet available to assess its impact, a new brief reveals what’s potentially at stake for Medicaid in the debate by examining the changes in health coverage and financing that…

  • What Might a Repeal of the Affordable Care Act Mean for Medicare?

    News Release

    As Republican policymakers consider how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), they are likely to face a number of decisions about whether to retain any of the law’s changes to Medicare. Repealing the ACA has potential implications for Medicare spending, beneficiaries, and other stakeholders, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation brief. A full repeal of the ACA would undo all of the law’s changes to Medicare and would increase Medicare spending,…

  • Data Note: Estimated Medicaid Savings in the House Budget Resolution from March 2016

    Issue Brief

    While the current Budget Resolution under consideration will set the framework for a repeal of the ACA, the Budget Resolution that passed in March 2016 provides insight into other Medicaid cuts that could be considered by Congress later this year. This Data Note examines proposed reductions in federal Medicaid funding under the March 2016 House Budget Resolution.

  • FY19 Conference Agreement Released, Includes State & Foreign Operations (SFOPs) Funding

    Fact Sheet

    The FY19 Conference Agreement, which includes funding for State & Foreign Operations (SFOPs), was released on February 13, 2019. The SFOPs section of the bill includes funding for U.S. global health programs at the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Key highlights are as follows (see table for additional detail): Funding provided to the State Department and USAID through the Global Health Programs (GHP) account, which represents the bulk of global health…

  • “Partial Medicaid Expansion” with ACA Enhanced Matching Funds: Implications for Financing and Coverage

    Issue Brief

    The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides enhanced federal matching funds to states that expand Medicaid to nonelderly adults up to 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL, $17,236/year for an individual in 2019). The ACA enhanced match (93% in 2019, and 90% in 2020 and thereafter) is substantially higher than states’ traditional Medicaid matching rate. A few states have sought Section 1115 demonstration waiver authority from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to…

  • The Future of Global Health Financing: Hope vs. Reality in the Push for Universal Health Coverage

    Event Date:
    Event

    On Thursday, April 25, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center held a policy roundtable on the latest data on funding for global health, including from the U.S. government. It began with a brief presentation by Joseph Dieleman of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation on the annual Financing Global Health report, which this year includes new data on trends in HIV and malaria funding. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…

  • Financial Performance of Medicare Advantage, Individual, and Group Health Insurance Markets

    Issue Brief

    Three key private health insurance markets -- Medicare Advantage, the individual market and the fully-insured group market -- appear to be financially healthy and attractive to insurers. The private Medicare Advantage market generates significantly larger gross margins per person than the individual market or fully-insured market. The future of these markets has become a focus for policymakers amid the debate over Medicare for All.