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  • Rural Health: Laying the Foundation for Health Reform

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    The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation co-sponsored this briefing to have a panel of experts answer questions about how some aspects of pending health reform proposals may have a substantial impact on rural care. What provisions in the various reform proposals affect rural health care? What particular challenges need to be overcome in order to improve care delivery in rural areas? What aspects of health reform will require special accommodation…

  • Making Health Care Work for American Families: Medicaid and Access to Care

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    Diane 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." Rowland, appearing as part of a panel, addressed why Medicaid can be a platform for health care reform and can be instrumental in efforts…

  • Addressing Disparities in Health and Health Care — Issues for Reform

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    Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Dr.P.H., Kaiser senior advisor on race, ethnicity and health care, testified before the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee about the role of health insurance in reducing disparities in health care and in health status. The testimony is part of an ongoing health reform hearing series. Testimony (.pdf) Slides (.ppt)

  • Health Reform Implementation: When Sausage-Making Moves Downtown

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    Panelists at this briefing examine what's happening behind the scenes to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. An overview of federal policymaking and the efforts by stakeholders and others to affect final policies pertaining to the health reform law is provided. The session will look into key tools and levers available to the federal government, including formal rulemaking and other policy processes, as well as efforts by stakeholders and others to affect final…

  • Today’s Topics In Health Disparities: What Might Health Reform Mean for Women of Color?

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    This December 16, 2009, Today's Topics In Health Disparities webcast examined aspects of the current Senate and House health reform bills that particularly impact women of color. Women tend to be greater users of the health care system than men, have higher rates of some chronic illnesses, and have unique reproductive health care needs. Women also tend to take the lead when it comes to obtaining health care for their family members. Provisions such as…

  • The Part D Experience: What are the Lessons for Broader Medicare Reform?

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    Launched in 2006, Medicare added a prescription drug benefit that relies entirely on private plans, while, for other benefits, beneficiaries have a choice between private health plans and traditional fee-for-service Medicare. As policymakers consider changes to Medicare that would give an even greater role to private health plans in caring for Medicare’s nearly 50 million seniors and people with disabilities, the Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a policy workshop to examine how the Part D experience…

  • Article and Policy Forum Examine Medicare, Health Reform and the Challenges Facing People With Disabilities

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    Wednesday, Sept. 8, the Foundation held a policy workshop examining Medicare, health reform and the challenges facing people with disabilities. Younger Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities are much more likely than seniors in the program to report problems accessing and paying for needed medical services, Kaiser Family Foundation researchers report in this Health Affairs article. Based on a national random-sample survey of people on Medicare, the study finds that half of nonelderly disabled beneficiaries report problems…

  • Today’s Topics In Health Disparities: The Effect of the Economic Downturn on the Health of Communities of Color

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    Transcript (.pdf) On Wednesday, March 25, the Kaiser Family Foundation held a live, interactive webcast to examine the economic downturn’s impact on health care in communities of color as part of its Today's Topics In Health Disparities series. Rising unemployment has left many families uninsured and increasingly strained family finances are prompting some Americans to cut back on medications and forgo preventive care. The panel discussed these and other potential implications of the economic crisis,…

  • ¿Cuánto puedo ganar y calificar para subsidios para las primas en el mercado?

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    Los subsidios para las primas están disponibles para quienes contratan una cobertura del mercado de seguros y cuyos ingresos son al menos iguales al nivel federal de pobreza. Para una persona, esto significa un ingreso de al menos $15.650 en 2026. Para una familia de cuatro, esto significa un ingreso de al menos $32.150 en 2026. Esta calculadora de subsidios del mercado de seguros puede mostrarle su elegibilidad para diferentes montos de ingresos y tamaños…

  • Making Sense of the Census Uninsured Numbers

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    The Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission and Medicaid and the Uninsured discuss the Census uninsured numbers. The Census Bureau announced that the number of people without health insurance dropped from 50 million to 48.6 million in 2011, marking the first decrease since 2007. That information came from the Current Population Survey, but it isn't the only data that Census is releasing on the uninsured. The Bureau is preparing a second…