COBRA Coverage for Low-Income Unemployed Workers
Summarizes the COBRA health coverage law, how it is administered, what its limitations are, and how it impacts low-income workers.
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Covering the Low-Income Uninsured: Assessing the Alternatives
ReportThis issue brief describes and analyzes expansions of Medicaid and SCHIP, tax credits for individually-purchased insurance, and tax credits for employment-based health insurance as options to expand health coverage of the low-income population.
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The New Medicaid and CHIP Waiver Initiatives
ReportA new report describes past waiver activity, the principles of the new HIFA initiative, and related policy implications.
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Women Who Left Welfare: Health Care Coverage, Access, and Use of Health Services
ReportThis brief uses the latest available data from the National Survey of America's Families to assess the relationship of health coverage to work status, health, access and use of health services by women who left welfare in 1997 or after and had not returned by 1999.
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Prescription Drug Discount Cards: Current Programs and Issues
ReportAs policymakers consider a range of approaches to providing prescription drug coverage to the Medicare population in today s tight budgetary environment, one proposal that has been put forth by the Bush Administration is that of a Medicare-endorsed prescription drug discount card program.
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Managed Care and Low-Income Populations: Four Years’ Experience with the Oregon Health Plan
ReportThis report updates an earlier study of Oregon's experience with restructuring their Medicaid programs. It is one of a series of reports from The Kaiser/Commonwealth Low-Income Coverage and Access Project.
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Access To Health Care:
ReportPromises and Prospects For Low-Income Americans This book explores critical issues affecting access to health care for low-income Americans by assessing the importance of expansions of health coverage for the poor, the emerging challenges providers who serve low-income and uninsured populations face in a rapidly evolving health care delivery system, and the effects of these…
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California’s Undocumented Latino Immigrants: A Report on Access to Health Care Services
ReportCalifornia's Undocumented Latino Immigrants: A Report on Access to Health Care Services This report provides the results of a survey of undocumented Latino immigrants in two California counties (Fresno and Los Angeles), including their access to health care services, insurance status, health status, and economic circumstances.
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Outpatient Prescription Drug Benefits Under Medicaid: Detailed Case Studies
ReportA report on Indiana, Massachusetts, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, and Pennsylvania prescription drug programs illustrating the issues and challenges for delivering drugs via Medicaid, managed care, and pharmaceutical assistance programs.
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Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage: Facts, Options, and Implications
Event Date:EventTestimony by Patricia Neuman, Sc.D.