CHIP TIPS: Medicaid Performance Bonus
This brief, the first in a series, examines the new federal "performance bonus" available to states that do an especially good job of signing up eligible children for Medicaid.
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Community Health Centers
Fact SheetThis fact sheet provides a basic overview of community health centers, covering issues such as the patients they serve, the services they provide and the financing they receive. Community health centers provided comprehensive primary care to 16.1 million patients in 2007. Fact Sheet (.
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Making Health Care Work for American Families: Medicaid and Access to Care
Event Date:EventDiane Rowland, executive vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation and executive director of the Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, testified March 24, 2009, before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health as part of a hearing entitled “Making Health Care Work for American Families: Access to Care.
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Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA)
Fact SheetThis fact sheet provides an overview of provisions of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), which was signed into law in February 2009.
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Report and Video Highlight Health Coverage Struggles, Other Economic Concerns of Working Families
Event Date:EventThis report and video from the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU) illustrate the financial struggles of many families in the United States and show the central role of health care costs and coverage in a household's economic stability.
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Snapshots from the Kitchen Table: Family Budgets and Health Care
ReportThis report from the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU) illustrates the financial struggles of many families in the United States and shows the central role of health care costs and coverage in a household's economic stability.
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The Adequacy of Health Insurance
Event Date:EventTestimony by Diane Rowland, executive vice president and executive director of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, at a congressional hearing, titled “Addressing Underinsurance in National Health Reform,” held Feb. 24, 2009, by a special task force of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Snapshots from the Kitchen Table: Family Budgets and Health Care
VideoThis Kaiser Family Foundation documentary, “Snapshots from the Kitchen Table: Family Budgets and Health Care,” profiles several American families who are struggling to make ends meet. It depicts the narrow financial ledge on which millions of low- and middle- income working households stand even in normal economic times, and illustrates the central role that health care costs and coverage play in a household’s economic stability. Some of the families profiled have health insurance, others do not.
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Missouri’s 2005 Medicaid Cuts: How Did They Affect Enrollees and Providers?
Other PostMissouri's 2005 Medicaid Cuts: How Did They Affect Enrollees and Providers? This study, prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, examines the result of sweeping cutbacks that Missouri instituted in its Medicaid program in 2005 in response to state budget shortfalls.
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The Impact of Medicaid and SCHIP on Low-Income Children’s Health
Issue BriefThis policy brief reviews the literature and examines the impact of Medicaid and SCHIP on coverage, access to care and health for the nation's low-income children. Issue Brief (.