Health - More Policy Analyses and Research
2009
NCLR: Evaluation of the "Patient Protection Affordable Care Act" (12/30/09) CCF: Key Medicaid, CHIP, and Low-Income Provisions in the Senate Health Reform Bill - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (12/24/09) Families USA: At a Crossroads: Is Health Coverage Ahead for America? (December 2009) Families USA: Expiration of COBRA Subsidy: Millions of Unemployed Workers and Their Dependents Are at Risk; Many Will Lose Their Subsidy as of December 1, 2009 (December 2009) CCF: Children in Health Reform: Where Things Stand (11/13/09) CBPP: Increasing Medicare Tax on High-Wage Earners Could Help Pay for Health Reform and Strengthen Medicare's Finances (11/13/09) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Urban Institute: Progress Enrolling Children in Medicaid/CHIP: Who is Left and What are the Prospects for Covering More Children? (November 2009) Kaiser Family Foundation: Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) (11/10/09) CBPP: House Health Reform Bill Expands Coverage and Lowers Health Cost Growth, While Reducing Deficits (11/6/09) NCLR: Evaluation of the "Affordable Health Care for America Act" (11/6/09) CCF: Key Medicaid, CHIP, and Low-Income Provisions in H.R. 3962: The Affordable Health Care for America Act of 2009 (as of November 3, 2009) Families USA: One-Two Punch: Unemployed and Uninsured (October 2009) EPI: Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Erosion Continues - Unabated Declines in Coverage Since 2000 are Expected to Worsen Through 2009 (10/27/09) CBPP: Finance Committee Health Reform Bill Makes Improvements, But Still Falls Short of What is Needed for Many People to Afford Health Care (10/13/09) CBPP: Finance Committee Makes Flawed Employer Requirement in Health Reform Bill Still More Problematic (10/13/09) CBPP: What Level of Coverage will Health Reform Likely Provide? The Basics of Actuarial Value (10/13/09) First Focus: A Lexicon for Children's Health: Making Children a Priority in Health Reform (October 2009) Urban Institute: Variation in Insurance Coverage Across Congressional Districts: New Estimates from 2008 (October 2009) First Focus: Children Currently Enrolled in CHIP Will Face Higher Costs if Moved into Exchange (10/12/09) Urban Institute: The Cost of Failure to Enact Health Reform: Implications for States (10/1/09) Families USA: Health Coverage in Communities of Color: Talking about the New Census Numbers (September 2009) Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies: The Economic Burden of Health Inequalities in the United States (September 2009) Urban Institute: Estimating the Cost of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (September 2009) Kaiser Family Foundation: A Profile of American Indians and Alaska Natives and Their Health Coverage (September 2009) Kaiser Family Foundation: Immigrants' Health Coverage and Health Reform: Key Questions and Answers (September 2009) Pew Hispanic Center: Hispanics, Health Insurance and Health Care Access (9/25/09) Kaiser Family Foundation: Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Provisions: America's Affordable Health Choices Act & America's Healthy Future Act (9/24/09) CTJ: Health Care Reform Financing Options: Review and Comparison of Six Progressive Options to Finance Health Care Reform (9/24/09) CBPP: Subsidies in Baucus Health Reform Plan Would Fall Short of What is Needed for Many People to Afford (9/16/09) CBPP: Employer Requirement in Baucus Health Reform Plan Would Pose Larger Problems than Previously Recognized (9/16/09) CCF: Weathering the Storm: States Move Forward on Child and Family Health Coverage (September 2009) CCF: Health Insurance Coverage of Children under 18, by State, 2007-2008 (9/10/09) CBPP: Employer Requirement in Baucus Health Package Would Have Unintended Effect of Discouraging Hiring of Low-Income and Minority Workers (9/8/09) CHN: A Pretty Short Summary of the Three House Committee Health Care Reform Bills (August 2009) NILC: Selected Features of Health Reform Proposals (Working Draft, 8/14/09) Center for Children and Families: Congressional Health Reform Legislation - Key Provisions Affecting Children and Families (8/12/09) Families USA: Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Key Health Equity Provisions (August 2009) NILC: Fact Sheet: The Truth About Immigrant in Health Care Reform (August 2009) Families USA: 10 Reasons to Support the Health Care Reform Bills (July 2009) Families USA: Coverage for America: We All Stand to Gain (July 2009) First Focus: Achieving Optimal Health and Healthcare for All Children: How We Can Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Children's Health and Healthcare (July 2009) EPI: Seeing the Big Picture on Health Reform and Cost Containment (7/27/09) IPC: Sharing the Costs, Sharing the Benefits: Inclusion is the Best Medicine (7/22/09) Kaiser Family Foundation: Side-by-Side Comparison of the two Congressional Authorizing Committee Proposals (7/17/09) Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies: Senate HELP Committee Affordable Health Choices Act: Implications for Improving Access, Affordability and Quality of Health Care for America's Racial/Ethnic Minorities (July 2009) Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies: H.R. 3200 America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (July 14, 2009): Implications for Improving Access Affordability and Quality Health Care for America's Racial/Ethnic Minorities (July 2009) Families USA: The Clock is Ticking: More Americans Losing Health Coverage (7/15/09) Children's HealthWatch: Affordable Health Care Keeps Children and Families Healthy (July 2009) CCF: An Overview of the CHIPRA Outreach and Enrollment Grants (7/10/09) First Focus: Congressional Health Reform Proposals: How Do Children Fare? (July 2009) CBPP: Allowing Multiple Insurance Exchanges in a Single Area Would Make it Harder to Obtain Affordable, Good-Quality Coverage (7/8/09) CTJ: Two Proposals to Pay for Health Care Reform - Impacts on People in Your State (7/7/09) CTJ: Health Care Reform Financing Options: President Obama's Proposal to Limit Itemized Deductions for High-Income Families (7/7/09) (State-by-State Figures in Appendix) CTJ: Health Care Reform Financing Options: Make the Medicare Tax a More Progressive Tax that Wealthy Investors Pay Just Like Everyone Else (7/7/09) (State-by-State Figures in Appendix) CCF: Key Medicaid, CHIP, and Low-Income Provisions in the House Tri-Committee Health Reform Bill (7/1/09) CBPP: Senate Finance Committee Faces Difficult Choices In Lowering Cost of Health Bill Subsidy Changes Could Leave Some Without Affordable Coverage (7/1/09) CCF: Chip Tip: New Federal Funding Available to Cover Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women (June 2009) First Focus: Health Reform and Adolescents (June 2009) Families USA: The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA): Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (June 2009) Kaiser Family Foundation: Low-Income Adults under Age 65-Many Are Poor, Sick, and Uninsured (June 2009) EPI: Employment Effects of a Pay-or Play Mandate (June 2009) Families USA: CHIPRA: The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act - A Series of Issue Briefs (June 2009) Kaiser Family Foundation: Putting Women's Health Disparities on the Map: Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the State Level (June 2009) CBPP: Employer Requirement Under Consideration For Senate Finance Committee Health Bill Could Discourage Hiring of Low-Income, Minority, Disabled Workers (6/24/09) Center for American Progress: Interactive Map: Health Care Competition Insurance Market Domination Leads to Fewer Choices (6/16/09) EPI: Geographic Effects of Capping the Tax Exclusion (6/11/09) CBPP: Reducing Medicaid and Medicare Drug Costs Could Help Pay For Health Reform (6/11/09) Families USA: Hidden Health Tax: Americans Pay a Premium (May 2009) CCF: The Last Piece of the Puzzle: Providing High-Quality, Affordable Health Coverage to All Children Through National Health Reform (May 2009) Center for American Progress: Health Reform that Works for Kids (May 2009) Families USA: Medicare: Helping Low-Income Seniors and People with Disabilities (May 2009) CAP: Interactive Map: The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care Lost Productivity Costs States $124 billion to $248 billion (5/29/09) EPI: A Public Plan Option as Backup Insurance for All Americans (5/13/09) CBPP: Designing a Benefit Standards for a Health Insurance Exchange (5/21/09) CBPP: Ensuring Affordable Health Coverage and Health Care Services in an Insurance Exchange (5/21/09) EPI/First Focus: How capping the tax exclusion may disproportionately burden children & families, (5/28/09) NILC: Facts About New State Option to Provide Health Coverage to Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women (April 2009) EPI: Why a Public Insurance Plan is Essential for Health Reform (4/23/09) CBPP: New Children's Health Law Reduces the Harmful Impact of Documentation Requirement (4/23/09) NCCP: Making Parent's Health Care a Priority (April 2009) Families USA: Covering the Uninsured in Medicaid (April 2009) Families USA: Health Care Must Be Affordable for All Families, Regardless of Income (April 2009) CBPP: Rules of the Road: How an Insurance Exchange Can Pool Risk and Protect Enrollees (3/31/09) Families USA: Americans at Risk: One in Three Uninsured (March 2009) State reports available Families USA: Health Care Reform: Critical to Closing the Gap for Communities of Color (March 2009) Families USA: CHIPRA 101: Overview of the CHIP Reauthorization Legislation (March 2009) Georgetown Center for Children and Families: The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 - Overview and Summary (February 2009) Families USA: Uninsured and Unemployed (February 2009) Families USA: Summary of Final CHIP Reauthorization Bill (2/3/09) Georgetown Center for Children and Families: SCHIP Reauthorization in 2009: An Update on the Debate and Side-by-Side of Key Bills Under Consideration (1/29/09) Families USA: Yes We Can . . . Cover More than 4 Million Uninsured Children (January 2009) Health Tax Incentives: Healthy Choices or Bad Medicine? (1/15/09) CBPP: CBO Estimates Show House SCHIP Bill Would Provide Health Insurance to 4.1 Million Uninsured Children (1/14/09) Urban Institute: Setting Income Thresholds in Medicaid/SCHIP: Which Children Should Be Eligible? (1/12/09)
2008
Families USA: A Painful Recession: States Cut Health Care Safety Net Programs (December 2008) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: Turning to Medicaid and SCHIP in an Economic Recession: Conversations with Recent Applicants and Enrollees (December 2008) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Reauthorization History (revised November 2008) Georgetown Center for Children and Families: Senator Baucus's Call to Action on Health Reform: Implications for Medicaid, SCHIP, and Children (11/12/08) George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services: Assessing the Effects of Medicaid Documentation Requirements on Health Centers and Their Patients: Results of a "Second Wave" Survey (10/21/08) Georgetown Center for Children and Families: Eligibility Levels in Medicaid & SCHIP for Children, by State as of October 1, 2008 (10/20/08) NWLC: Nowhere to Turn: How the Individual Health Insurance Market Fails Women (September 2008) NCLR: A Burden No Child Should Bear: How the Health Coverage System is Failing Latino Children (7/13/08) Families USA: America's Health Care Crisis: Cities on the Front Lines (6/24/08) EPI: A Decade of Decline: The Erosion of Employer-Provided Health Care in the United States and California, 1995-2006 (4/16/08) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: Medicaid, SCHIP and Economic Downturn: Policy Challenges and Policy Responses (April 2008) Alliance for Helath Reform: Health Care Coverage in America: Understanding the Issues and Proposed Solutions (March 2008) Urban Institute: The Failure of SCHIP Reauthorization: What Next? (3/13/08) CBPP: Administration's Medicaid Regulations will Weaken Coverage, Harm States, and Strain Health Care System (2/13/08) Families USA: 9 Million Children and Counting: the Administration's Attack on Health Coverage for America's Children (February 2008) Center for Children and Families: SCHIP Provision in the Administration's FY 2009 Budget (2/7/08) CBPP: President's Budget May Provide States With Inadequate Funding to Maintain Current SCHIP Programs (2/7/08) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid & the Uninsured: Medicaid: Overview and Impact of New Regulations (January 2008)
2007
Center for Children and Families: Moving Backward: Status Report on the Impact of the August 17 SCHIP Directive to Impose New Limits on States Ability to Cover Uninsured Children (December 2007) Foundation for Child Development: All Our Children? The Health and Education of Children of Immigrants (October 2007) Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program: Fuel for the Future (10/22/07) CBPP: New SCHIP Legislation Makes Significant Changes from Vetoed Bill to Focus more heavily on Poor Children: Bill continues to Reach Nearly 4 Million Uninsured Children (10/25/07) Center for Children and Families: Coverage of the Uninsured Children in Moderate-Income Families Under SCHIP (October 2007) Center for Children & Families: Summary of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 (9/28/07) Families USA: Summary of the Senate, House and Compromise CHIP Reauthorization Bills (September 2007) CBPP: CBO Estimates Show SCHIP Agreement Would Provide Health Insurance to 3.8 Million Uninsured Children (9/25/07) Families USA: Kids Waiting for Coverage: How Many Are in Your State? (September 2007) Center for Children and Families: Moving Backward: New Federally Imposed Limits on States' Ability to Cover Children (8/30/07) CBPP: House Health Legislation Would Curb Medicare Overpayments to Private Plans, While Aiding Medicare Beneficiaries Overall (8/8/07) First Focus: A Brief Analysis of the Bush Administration's Tax Proposals in the Context of the SCHIP Reauthorization (8/1/07) CBPP: New Charges About How House Children's Health Bill Affects Undocumented Immigrants are False (8/1/07) NWLC: State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Vital Health Coverage for Families (February 2007) CBPP: Fourteen States Face SCHIP Shortfalls this Year Totaling Over $700 Million (2/22/07) CBPP: SCHIP Reauthorization: President's Budget Would Provide Less than Half the Funds that States Need to Maintain SCHIP Enrollment (2/22/07) CBPP: Freezing SCHIP Funding in Coming Years Would Reverse Recent Gains in Children's Health Coverage (2/22/07) Families USA: Tax Credits Versus Tax Deductions for Health Coverage: Why the Bush Tax Deduction is Unhelpful and Regressive (January 2007) Urban Institute: The President's Health Insurance Proposal - A First Look (01/23/07)
2006
The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid & the Uninsured: SCHIP Program Enrollment - June 2005 Update (December 2006) Center for Children and Families - Too Close to Turn Back: Covering America's Children (12/12/06) Families USA: Coverage through the "Donut Hole" Grows Scarcer in 2007 (11/1/2006) NCLR: Redefining HIV/AIDS for Latinos: A Promising New Paradigm for Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Hispanic Community (10/10/06) Joint Economic Committee Democrats: Administration's Health Insurance Tax Credit Fails to Provide Solution for Uninsured (4/17/06) Families USA: Summary of S. 1955: The Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization Act (3/23/06) Families USA: The Enzi Bill: Bad Medicine for America (3/15/06) Families USA: Analysis of Key Health Provisions In President's FY 2007 Budget (2/22/06) CBPP: President Greatly Reduced His Health Proposals for Low-Income Families While Expanding Health Benefits for the More Affluent (2/8/06) CBPP: President's Health Care Tax Cuts Likely to Weaken Existing Insurance and Primarily Help Well-Off (1/31/06) CHN: State Fact Sheets - How Budget Cuts Will Affect Your State (1/13/06) CBPP: Assessing the Effects of Budget Conference Agreement on Low Income Families (revised 1/9/06)
2005
CBPP: Budget Conference Agreement Contains Substainal Cuts Aimed at Low-Income Families (12/18/05) Center for American Progress: House Medicaid Budget Proposal Harms Millions (11/29/05) CHN: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Slashes Services for Low-Income People (11/17/05) G'town Health Policy Inst.: House Budget Bill Eliminates Medicaid Standards for 6 Million Children (11/10/05) CBPP: Administration Ignores MEDPAC Findings in Threatening to Veto Senate Medicare Provision (11/4/05) CBPP: Latest Enrollment Data Still Fail to Dispel Concerns About Health Savings Accounts (10/26/05) CBPP: House Energy and Commerce Committee Proposal Imposes New Costs on Low-Income Medicaid Recipients (10/25/05) Georgetown Center for Children and Families: Key Issues in the House Energy and Commerce Committee Medicaid Proposal (10/25/05) Georgetown Center for Children and Families: Differences that Make a Difference: Comparing Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program Federal Benefit Standards (10/25/05) EPI: Prospects Worsen for Employee's Health Care (10/21/05) CBPP: Administration's Medicaid Waiver Policy Fails to Help All Katrina Survivors (9/29/05) Families USA: Getting the Best Price: Lessons from the Medicare Discount Card (9/27/05) CBPP: Medicaid Eligibility Rules Prevent Katrina Survivors in Lousiana From Accessing Medicaid (9/26/05) CHN: Number of Poor and Uninsured Rise Again in 2004 (8/30/05) CBPP: Number of Uninsured Continued to Rise in 2004 (8/30/05) APHA: Medicaid, Prevention, and Public Health - Invest Today for a Healthier Tomorrow (8/30/05) AHRQ: More Than One in Three Hispanics Are Uninsured (8/10/05) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Going Without - America's Uninsured Children (8/2/05) Organizations Respond to Latest Data Showing Growth in Poverty, Uninsurance in 2004 (August 2005) Annie E Casey: 2005 KIDS COUNT Report Shows Increase in Child Poverty (7/27/05) includes data about low-birthweight, infant mortality and other health issues CBPP: Medicaid: Improving Health, Saving Lives (7/19/05) CBPP: What Does the Safety Net Accomplish? (7/19/05) Families USA: New Medicare Law Puts Low-Income People At Risk (7/6/05) Centers for Disease Control: Health Insurance Coverage: Estimates from National Survey 2004 (June 2005) CBPP: Statement on National Governor's Association Medicaid Recommendations (6/15/05) Families USA: Paying a Premium - The Added Cost of Care for the Uninsured (6/8/05) National Governors' Association: Policy Position on Medicaid Reform (adopted 6/1/05) CBPP: Out of Pocket Expenses for Medicaid Recipients are Large and Growing (5/31/05) Urban Institute: SCHIP Responds to Third Year of Budget Pressure (5/19/05) CHN: What is in the FY 2006 Budget Resolution? (5/6/05) National Partnership: Expecting Better - State-by-State Analysis of Family Leave Programs (5/5/05) Family Leave Coalition: Letter to Department of Labor on Family Leave (5/5/05) IWPR: Valuing Good Health (A Cost Benefit Analysis of the Healthy Families Act (4/27/05) CHN: Dangerous Choices: The President's Fiscal Year 2006 Budget (3/8/05) Urban: The Health and Well Being of Children of Immigrants (2/8/05)
2004
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: Mental Health Hits and Misses in 108th Congress (12/16/04) Families USA: Capping Medicaid Funding: How Block Grants Would Hurt States (12/10/04) CWLA: Funding for Selected Children's Programs (12/2/04) FamiliesUSA: Tennessee Governor Threatens to End Health Coverage for 430,000 People (11/11/04) CHN: Ballot Initiatives in the 2004 General Election (11/5/04) CHN: Block Grant Proposals Threaten Services for Families and Communities (updated 10/22/04) Families USA: $1.1 Billion in CHIP Funds to Be Returned to Treasury (9/23/04) CBPP: Congress Can Preserve Expiring CHIP Funds and Help Avert CHIP Cutbacks (9/24/04) Affordable Health Care for All Grassroots Campaign (Fall 2004) CBPP: Congress Can Preserve Expiring CHIP Funds and Avert Cuts (8/31/04) CBPP: Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Highest Ever (8/26/04) CSNAP: Safety Net Has Powerful Impact on Babies' Health (8/5/04) JEC: Rising Health Care Costs Undermine Social Security COLA Adjustment (July 2004) FamiliesUSA: One in Three: Americans Without Health Insurance (6/16/04) CDF: Letter to Congress on Family Opportunity Act (6/14/04) IWPR: Expanded Sick Leave Would Benefit Business, Employers, Families (6/15/04)
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