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Premiums and Cost-Sharing in Medicaid: A Review of Research Findings
Medicaid covers nearly 60 million Americans. Because the population covered by the program is low-income, federal law limits the extent to which states can charge premiums and cost-sharing amounts,...
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Premiums and Cost-Sharing in Medicaid
Medicaid, the nation’s public health insurance program for low-income people, now covers nearly 60 million Americans, including many working families, low-income elderly, and individuals with...
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Community Health Centers in an Era of Health Reform: An Overview and Key...
Over 1,100 federally funded community health centers play a vital role in ensuring access to health care for a predominantly low-income population in medically underserved communities. Health centers’...
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Medicaid: A Primer – Key Information on the Nation’s Health Coverage Program...
Medicaid is the largest health insurance program in the U.S., covering over 62 million Americans, including millions of the poorest individuals and families in the nation. It also serves as a key...
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Key Facts on Health Coverage for Low-Income Immigrants Today and Under the...
Beginning in 2014, the Affordable Care Act will expand Medicaid and create new health insurance exchanges that will significantly increase coverage options for citizens and lawfully present immigrants....
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The Medicaid Program at a Glance
Medicaid, the nation’s main public health insurance program for low-income people, covers over 62 million Americans, or 1 in every 5 (Figure 1). Medicaid beneficiaries include pregnant women, children...
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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: March 2013
Three years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the March 2013 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that a majority of Americans are unsure how the law will impact them, and few are paying...
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Medicaid and Its Role in State/Federal Budgets and Health Reform: A Fact Sheet
This fact sheet highlights key issues about Medicaid, including the structure, financing and purpose of the program, its role for low-income beneficiaries, its share of the federal budget and state...
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What Difference Does Medicaid Make? Assessing Cost Effectiveness, Access, and...
This brief examines the cost and use of health care among low-income nonelderly adults who are covered by Medicaid relative to their expected service use and costs if they instead had...
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Poor People Have the Same Needs as Others
Drew Altman, President and CEO of the Foundation, was asked to contribute to the New York Times’ Room for Debate discussion on More Medicaid, More Health? In his piece, Dr. Altman concludes “Insurance...
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Quality of Care in Community Health Centers and Factors Associated with...
This study examines quality performance among community health centers (CHC) on three key measures of primary and preventive care — diabetes and blood pressure control and timely Pap tests — using...
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Transitioning To Country Ownership Of Health, Development Programs
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Impatient Optimists” blog interviews Sema Sgaier, the lead author of an article published in Health Affairs this week examining “how India has worked in...
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GAO Report On PEPFAR Recommends Better Information Management
The Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks” blog highlights “a new report from the United States Government Accountability Office on PEPFAR,” noting it “says improvements in how the program...
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Financial Alignment Demonstrations for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries Compared:...
This issue brief compares demonstration programs in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington state that will introduce changes in the care delivery systems through which...
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WHO Report Examines Effectiveness Of National Anti-Tobacco Campaigns
“A new WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2013 shows hundreds of millions of non-smokers are less likely to start smoking because of national anti-tobacco campaigns that are reaching three...
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Former South African Deputy President Appointed Head Of U.N. Women
“The United Nations named former South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to head the gender equality body U.N. Women on Wednesday, after former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet stepped...
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India Out Of Pediatric TB Medicines, HIV Testing Kits, MSF Warns
“India’s public health system has run out of life-saving tuberculosis medicines for children and critical testing kits for AIDS patients, causing an outcry among patient groups who warn that the...
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VOA News Interviews Gates Foundation’s Senior Program Officer For TB
VOA News interviews Peter Small, senior program officer for tuberculosis (TB) at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, about recent research developments and the global TB response. “As the world...
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New York Times Columnist, ‘Win-A-Trip’ Student Reflect On Breastfeeding In Mali
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is in Mali for his annual win-a-trip journey, during which he travels with a university student to report on global poverty issues. The following is a summary...
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