Maintaining Health Coverage and Securing the Medicaid Safety Net in a Sluggish Economy
The current economy is a key concern as federal and state leaders worry about the expected rise in unemployment and the related loss of employer health coverage.
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Reaching Uninsured Children Through Medicaid: If You Build It Right, They Will Come
ReportThis report analyzes enrollment data of recent years and draws on state experiences to outline the key strategies that will lead to successful enrollment in public health coverage programs and finds that improving enrollment in Medicaid drives improved overall enrollment into a state s public coverage programs.
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The Financing of Illinois’ Prescription Drug Demonstration Project
Issue BriefThis policy brief describes the financing of Illinois' new Medicaid prescription drug waiver.
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Barriers to Medicaid Enrollment for Seniors: Findings from 10 Focus Groups with Low-Income Seniors
ReportMedicaid coverage substantially improves access to health care and lessens the financial burden of medical care for low-income seniors, but the program currently reaches only half of all poor Medicare beneficiaries.
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Medicaid Eligibility and Citizenship Status: Policy Implications for Immigrant Populations
Issue BriefA policy brief that provides an overview of Medicaid eligibility and citizenship status, including a discussion of recent legislative changes.
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Faces of the Medicaid Expansion: Experiences and Profiles of Uninsured Adults Who Could Gain Coverage
Issue BriefThese two papers provide insight into how state decisions to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are likely to impact people.
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The Four Americas: Government and Social Policy Through the Eyes of America’s Multi-racial and Multi-ethnic Society
Poll FindingThe Four Americas: Government and Social Policy Through the Eyes of America's Multi-racial and Multi-ethnic Society This report is the first of a series of surveys conducted jointly by The Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University examining public knowledge, values and beliefs on major issues and challenges facing our nation, such as race, poverty, reducing the…
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Filling an Urgent Need: Improving Children’s Access to Dental Care in Medicaid and SCHIP
ReportIn October 2007, the Foundation’s Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the National Academy for State Health Policy convened a day-long meeting of policy officials and oral health experts to discuss children’s access to dental care in Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and exchange information and perspectives on the…
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Medicaid and State Budgets: An October 2001 Update
ReportAn update to "Medicaid Budgets Under Stress: Survey Findings for State Fiscal Year 2000, 2001, and 2002." This paper was commissioned to evaluate how several states' fiscal outlooks have changed since September 11.
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States Strive to Limit Medicaid Expenditures for Prescribed Drugs
ReportA new report presenting year 2000 trends on prescription drug spending, summarizing states options in designing their benefit, and reviewing several ways states are using their flexibility to curb the rate of growth of their Medicaid drug budgets.