Becoming “Healthy Louisiana”: An Overview of Planning Efforts to Implement the Medicaid Expansion
This fact sheet provides an overview of Louisiana’s planning activities to implement its Medicaid expansion, Healthy Louisiana.
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Medicaid’s Role in Louisiana
Fact SheetThis fact sheet provides data on Medicaid's role in Louisiana. It describes how ending the enhanced match for Medicaid expansion and implementing a per capita cap or block grant would affect Louisiana.
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New Orleans Ten Years After the Storm: Perceptions of Recovery and Life in New Orleans Over Time
Other PostIn the decade after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in New Orleans in 2005, the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a series of surveys with the city's residents, tracking how they feel about New Orleans' progress on a number of fronts, including public safety, business development, and levee repair.
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What Post-Katrina New Orleans Shows About Urban and Race Issues
From Drew AltmanDrew Altman discusses a growing racial divide in the city about perceptions of economic opportunity for blacks and whites and what progress and challenges in New Orleans may mean for urban America in this column for The Wall Street Journal's Think Tank.
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What Post-Katrina New Orleans Shows About Urban and Race Issues
News ReleaseDrawing on the latest Kaiser Family Foundation comprehensive survey of New Orleans, Drew Altman discusses a growing racial divide in the city about perceptions of economic opportunity for blacks and whites and what progress and challenges in New Orleans may mean for urban America in his latest column for The Wall Street Journal's Think Tank. All previous columns by Drew Altman are available online.
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State Exchange Profiles: Louisiana
Other PostFinal update made on December 13, 2012 (no further updates will be made) Establishing the Exchange Governor Bobby Jindal (R) announced that Louisiana will not pursue the establishment of a state-based health insurance exchange and instead will allow the federal government to operate an exchange in the state.1 While a bill establishing an exchange was introduced in the 2012 legislative session, it was not supported by the Governor and failed when the legislative session ended (SB…
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Optimizing Medicaid Enrollment: Spotlight on Technology – Louisiana’s Express Lane Eligibility
Issue BriefThis piece looks at how Louisiana uses “express lane eligibility" to increase and streamline the enrollment of low-income children in its Medicaid program. It is the first in a Spotlight on Technology series profiling several states' innovative applications of technology to Medicaid enrollment efforts. The series illustrates a range of approaches that states can adopt to improve their systems now and to prepare for the expansion of Medicaid under health reform. Spotlight (.pdf)
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The Louisiana Health Care Landscape
Fact SheetThis fact sheet provides an overview of resident socio-demographic characteristics, population health, health coverage, and the health care delivery system in Louisiana both pre-Hurricane Katrina and in the era of health reform.
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How Will the Uninsured in Louisiana Fare Under the Affordable Care Act?
Fact SheetThis state report explains how the ACA expands coverage in Louisiana, including a breakdown of how many uninsured people are eligible for Medicaid, how many are eligible for financial assistance to help them buy private insurance in the new Marketplace and how many will not receive any financial assistance at all. The report also details, in specific dollar figures, the income levels at which people in Louisiana are eligible for Medicaid or financial assistance in…
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A Comparative Analysis of Affected Residents’ Views of the Response to Hurricanes Maria, Harvey and Katrina
From Drew AltmanDrew Altman compares residents' views of hurricane-recovery efforts based on five surveys of residents affected by Hurricanes Maria, Harvey and Katrina.