Health Coverage & the Uninsured: Reform Proposals

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Guide Provides Overview of Policy Approaches to Covering the Uninsured
This reference guide explains the key strategies for expanding affordable coverage to the nation's uninsured population and explains how approaches can be combined to form comprehensive reform proposals.

Brief Examines Medicare Buy-In Option To Help Uninsured Older Americans
As Congress prepares to debate major health reform legislation, some key legislators have proposed a Medicare buy-in for people ages 55 to 64. This policy brief profiles the 4 million uninsured individuals in that age range and how a Medicare buy-in could be structured.

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Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Provisions in the House Leadership Bill: Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962) -- November 2009
This brief compares the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program provisions in the House Leadership health reform bill, H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act, introduced on October 29, 2009 to current law.

Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals -- November 2009
This interactive side-by-side compares the leading comprehensive health reform proposals across a number of key characteristics and plan components. Proposals for moving toward universal coverage that have been put forward by the president and members of congress are included.

Health Reform Subsidy Calculator -- October 2009
This interactive tool illustrates the premiums and subsidies for those who purchase coverage on their own through an exchange or gateway because they don’t get health insurance through their employers, Medicare or Medicaid, as provided under the key Congressional reform plans.

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll—October 2009 -- October 2009
The October Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds public support for health reform unchanged since last month, with more in favor than opposed.
Survey also shows about half of the public believes that if reform passes, help for the uninsured and changes in insurance market rules would arrive within the first year, years ahead of the timetables contemplated in the legislation.

Medicare Savings in Perspective: A Comparison of 2009 Health Reform Legislation and Other Laws in the Last 15 Years -- October 2009
The policy brief examines the changes in Medicare spending included in the health reform proposals under consideration in the House and Senate with earlier laws enacted over the past 15 years, providing context for the scope of the changes.

Glossary of Key Terms in Health Reform -- October 2009
This glossary is intended to serve as a resource for understanding the concepts included in health reform proposals. It provides simple and straightforward definitions of key terms that will likely be part of the health reform debate.

Where Are States Today: Medicaid and State-Funded Coverage Eligibility Levels for Low-Income Adults -- October 2009

This fact sheet provides a brief overview of low-income adults' current eligibility for Medicaid and other state-funded coverage programs and a discussion of how this coverage may be impacted by health reform.

Explaining Health Care Reform: What is Comparative Effectiveness Research? -- October 2009
The brief examines current funding for comparative effectiveness research, the provisions included in the current health reform legislation, and issues related to which treatments that might be studied, whether and how to weigh costs of care, and how such findings will be used and shared with health-care practitioners and the public.

Strategies for Reining In Medicare Spending Through Delivery System Reforms: Assessing the Evidence and Opportunities -- September 2009
This report commissioned by the Kaiser Family Foundation assesses the potential for various proposed delivery-system reforms to strengthen Medicare’s long-term fiscal outlook.

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - September 2009 -- September 2009
The September Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that public support for health reform ended its summer slide, reversed course and moved modestly upwards in September. The survey also finds initial majority support for taxing expensive health plans and imposing fees on insurers to pay for reform.

This brief compares the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program provisions in the House Leadership health reform bill, H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act, introduced on October 29, 2009 to current law.

This interactive side-by-side compares the leading comprehensive health reform proposals across a number of key characteristics and plan components. Proposals for moving toward universal coverage that have been put forward by the president and members of congress are included.

This interactive tool illustrates the premiums and subsidies for those who purchase coverage on their own through an exchange or gateway because they don’t get health insurance through their employers, Medicare or Medicaid, as provided under the key Congressional reform plans.

The October Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds public support for health reform unchanged since last month, with more in favor than opposed.
Survey also shows about half of the public believes that if reform passes, help for the uninsured and changes in insurance market rules would arrive within the first year, years ahead of the timetables contemplated in the legislation.

The policy brief examines the changes in Medicare spending included in the health reform proposals under consideration in the House and Senate with earlier laws enacted over the past 15 years, providing context for the scope of the changes.

This glossary is intended to serve as a resource for understanding the concepts included in health reform proposals. It provides simple and straightforward definitions of key terms that will likely be part of the health reform debate.

The brief examines current funding for comparative effectiveness research, the provisions included in the current health reform legislation, and issues related to which treatments that might be studied, whether and how to weigh costs of care, and how such findings will be used and shared with health-care practitioners and the public.

This report commissioned by the Kaiser Family Foundation assesses the potential for various proposed delivery-system reforms to strengthen Medicare’s long-term fiscal outlook.

The September Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that public support for health reform ended its summer slide, reversed course and moved modestly upwards in September. The survey also finds initial majority support for taxing expensive health plans and imposing fees on insurers to pay for reform.

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Heath Coverage & the Uninsured: Reform Proposals

Many of the more recent legislative proposals for expanding health insurance coverage to more Americans have an important common element: government-funded subsides for health insurance for low and modest income people. The proposals however differ significantly in the method used to provide these subsidies – specifically, reliance on tax policies to purchase private insurance vs. expansion of existing public insurance programs.