These resources help explain the major issues and concepts involved in the current health reform debate, as well as context and background information about the nation’s existing health care system and programs.
Explaining Health Care Reform series
This collection of briefs provides an overview of specific concepts related to health reform.
Approaches to Covering the Uninsured: A Guide
This guide includes an overview of different strategies for improving access to health coverage for the nation’s 45 million people without insurance, and how those strategies compliment one another.
Five Basic Facts on the Uninsured
This brief provides basic facts that explain why so many people lack coverage and how being uninsured affects their health and financial security.
Glossary of Key Terms in Health Reform
This resource provides simple and straightforward definitions of key terms that will likely be part of the health reform debate.
Primers on Key Health Care Topics and Programs
The Kaiser Family Foundation maintains a number of primers providing overviews of key health care programs and issues: the Uninsured, Health Care Costs, Medicaid, Medicare and Private Health Insurance.
KaiserEDU Tutorials and Issue Modules
KaiserEDU.org, the Foundation's Web site for students, faculty and others interested in learning about health policy, has a number of tutorials and issue modules on health reform topics.
