Ask the Experts About Reform: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Headed?
The Alliance for Health Reform and Eli Lilly co-sponsored this briefing to have an expanded panel of prominent experts answer questions about the current health reform efforts.
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Health Coverage and Expenses: Impact on Older Women’s Economic Well-Being
Issue BriefIn this article in the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, researchers from the Kaiser Family Foundation examine how health issues that women face over the course of their lives, as well as policies that shape Medicare, Medicaid and other supplemental coverage, can affect retired women's economic well-being.
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Pulling it Together: Small $ for HIV Prevention
PerspectiveIt’s no secret that the response to the HIV epidemic domestically has not kept pace with the response to the global epidemic. And in an earlier column called America Has Gone Quiet on HIV/AIDS I wrote about the growing complacency towards the domestic epidemic revealed in our recent survey of the American people.
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Donor Funding for Health in Low – and Middle – Income Countries, 2001-2007
ReportDonor governments, including the United States and European nations, provide the bulk of international funding for health in low- and middle- income countries each year. Despite significant increases in such funding, however, it still falls short of need as estimated by the World Health Organization’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.
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Financing the response to AIDS in low- and middle-income countries: International assistance from the G8, European Commission and other donor Governments in 2008
ReportThis report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address the HIV response in low- and middle-income countries in 2008, the latest year available, as well as trends over time. It includes both bilateral funding from donors and their multilateral contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), UNITAID, and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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The National HIV Prevention Inventory: The State of HIV Prevention Across the U.S.
Other PostThis report provides the first comprehensive inventory of how HIV prevention is delivered across the country, based on a survey of the 65 health departments receiving direct federal HIV prevention funding, including every state and territory, plus six cities.
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Medicare Part D Update: Lessons Learned and Unfinished Business
ReportEnacted in 2003, Medicare’s Part D prescription drug benefit reflected an unprecedented and controversial new approach for Medicare, relying exclusively on private plans to provide health coverage and including an unusual gap in coverage. This analysis by Kaiser researchers examines in detail how the new model has worked since its launch almost four years ago.
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Explaining Health Care Reform: How Might a Reform Plan Be Financed?
Issue BriefOne of the key challenges in enacting a health care reform plan is how to finance it among government, employers, and individuals. Of particular concern to policymakers is what effect a health reform plan would have on government spending and the federal budget.
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Update on Medicare Spending and Financing and Highlights from the 2009 Medicare Trustees’ Report
ReportIncorporating data from the 2009 Medicare Trustees' Report, this chartpack examine the fiscal challenges facing the Medicare program as well as the public's views on confronting them. Chartpack (.
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Trends in Medicaid Physician Fees, 2003-2008
Fact SheetThis study, published in a Health Affairs Web exclusive, provides the first national and state-by-state update of Medicaid physician fees since 2003. Medicaid has historically reimbursed physicians under fee-for-service at levels below what Medicare and private health insurers would pay for the same services.