In 2007, San Francisco became the first city in the nation to begin implementation of a plan to provide health care services to all uninsured residents. This fact sheet summarizes Healthy San Francisco, how it came to be, and key policy issues facing the program.

This fact sheet summarizes Vermont's health reform law designed to increase health care access and reduce costs.

Just prior to a key July 1 deadline, this Kaiser/Harvard/BCBSMA Foundation finds most Massachusetts residents support a new state law to provide health coverage to almost all residents, including the individual mandate that requires residents to obtain coverage or pay a penalty. The poll also suggests most are skeptical about the affordability of health coverage for families that are not eligible for subsidized coverage.

This issue brief offers a retrospective look at how care was provided to poor residents in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina hit.  It describes the structure of the public safety net and briefly discusses the challenges facing the system as it tries to rebuild.

This report examines the impact of Massachusetts eliminating coverage of most dental services for adults in its Medicaid program, MassHealth.

This series of case studies examines how eight states from around the nation responded to their budget crises from 2003 to 2005, with a focus on how Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs were affected.

This report examines how medical support requirements impact parents applying for Medicaid coverage for themselves and their children.  The report draws from case studies of medical support procedures obtained in five states:  Arizona, Connecticut, Minnesota, South Carolina and Wisconsin.

This paper explores the role of MaineCare, Maine’s Medicaid program, in the state’s health care system and the relationship between MaineCare and the Dirigo Health plan that the state approved in 2003.

Oregon is one state that has significantly restructured its Medicaid program, known as the Oregon Health Plan (OHP), in response to budget pressures. As part of these changes, it has implemented significant benefit reductions and increased premiums and cost sharing in it’s program for poor parents and other adults.  This report presents findings from five focus groups conducted of current and former enrollees in Oregon’s health programs in an effort to see how the changes have affected individuals.

The case study details the impact of Texas' legislative actions on enrollment in its Medicaid and SCHIP programs.  Texas experienced the largest SCHIP enrollment decline in the nation between June 2003 and December 2003.