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  • Former Governor James E. Doyle and Kathryn B. Kaiser Elected to Kaiser Family Foundation Board of Trustees

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    NEWS RELEASE Menlo Park, CA – The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation announced today that the Honorable James E. Doyle, former governor of Wisconsin, and Kathryn B. Kaiser, great granddaughter of the Foundation’s originator, Henry J. Kaiser, have been elected to its Board of Trustees. Doyle served two terms as governor of Wisconsin, first being elected in 2002 and wrapping up his second term earlier this year. He has extensive experience in health care issues…

  • Kaiser Family Foundation/GlobalPost Partnership and Global Health Reporting Fellowships

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    In 2011, the Kaiser Family Foundation began a new partnership with GlobalPost to help support original reporting on global health policy issues. As part of the partnership, the Foundation is working with GlobalPost to support its coverage of global health, including reporting on U.S. global health policy issues. Through the partnership, GlobalPost also created Global Pulse, a blog which will examine the Global Health Initiative in the field. The Foundation is also sponsoring the work…

  • The Kaiser Project on Medicare’s Future

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    The Kaiser Project on Medicare’s Future is a major initiative of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Program on Medicare Policy, focused on producing timely and authoritative analysis of leading Medicare deficit reduction options and other reforms affecting people on Medicare, and on informing the debate about the future of the Medicare program. The Project is supported in part by a grant from Atlantic Philanthropies. The Kaiser Family Foundation is solely responsible for the work of the…

  • KCMU Fact Sheets

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    These fact sheets from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured provide basic information about Medicaid, children’s coverage and the uninsured Medicaid: Basics Medicaid Matters: Understanding Medicaid’s Role in Our Health Care System 5 Key Questions and Answers About Medicaid The Medicaid Program At a Glance Visualizing Health Policy Infographic--Medicaid: Its Role Today and Under the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Beneficiaries and Access to Care Medicaid and Long-Term Services and Supports Dual Eligibles: Medicaid's…

  • The U.S. Congress and Health Policy Tutorial

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    This tutorial was produced for kaiserEDU.org, a Kaiser Family Foundation website that ceased production in September 2013. The kaiserEDU.org tutorials are no longer being updated but have been made available on kff.org due to demand by professors who are using the tutorials in class assignments. You may search for other tutorials to view on kff.org. To download this or other tutorials, visit the tutorials archive page.  Slides are available for download using the “Download Slides” link within the…

  • Donna E. Shalala Honored With Nelson Mandela Award For Health And Human Rights

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    WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala was awarded the 2010 Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights last night at a ceremony and dinner at Blair House hosted by current U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and the Kaiser Family Foundation honoring her retirement from the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.  Former Secretary Shalala, who serves as president of the University of Miami, was recognized…

  • Fraud Alert

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    Beware of Scams Implying Association with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation The Kaiser Family Foundation has been made aware of various correspondences, being circulated via e-mail, from Internet websites, and via regular mail or facsimile, falsely stating that they are issued by, or in associate with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and/or its officials. These scams, which may seek to obtain money and/or in many cases personal details from the recipients of such…

  • Marilyn Werber Serafini Chosen as First Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow

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    Foundation Establishes Fellowship in Recognition of Former New York Times Health Journalist WASHINGTON, D.C.– National Journal health care and welfare reporter Marilyn Werber Serafini has been selected as the inaugural Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Serafini is a veteran, award-winning journalist who has covered the U.S. Congress since 1985 writing about health care, tax, trade, welfare, pension and banking legislation. She covered the health reform debate during the Clinton Administration and…

  • 12 Selected as 2010 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars

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    Washington, D.C. -- The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has selected 12 individuals as the 2010 Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars.  The Scholars have an opportunity to learn first-hand about health policy and the policymaking process during a nine-week position as staff to a congressional office. The Foundation established the Barbara Jordan Scholars Program in memory of former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan -- the first African American woman elected to Congress from Texas and a…

  • KaiserEDU.org Selects Winning Student Essays Identifying Future Health Policy Challenges

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    The Kaiser Family Foundation announced the winners of its fourth annual essay contest today, sponsored by the foundation’s educational health policy website, kaiserEDU.org. The contest invited students to identify the major health policy challenges the nation will face in the year 2015 and discuss how the top two priorities should be addressed. Entries were received from more than 400 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at colleges and universities across the country in a wide range…