Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 (CHIPRA) September 30, 2007 Issue Brief The to extend the SCHIP program was passed with bi-partisan support in the Congress and vetoed by the President on October 3, 2007. This brief provides an overview of SCHIP and of key provisions in CHIPRA. Issue Brief (.pdf)
Long-Term Service and Supports: The Future Role and Challenges for Medicaid September 29, 2007 Report This report examines the structure and impact of Medicaid’s role in long-term care. Based on a roundtable discussion of policy makers and experts and drawn from a body of health services research, the report highlights policy challenges facing the Medicaid program today and identifies issues in providing long-term care going…
An Overview of Medicaid Enrollees with Diabetes in 2003 September 29, 2007 Issue Brief Diabetes was the sixth leading cause of death in the US in 2004 and is among the top 10 most expensive medical conditions on the country. Although more than one in seven diabetics in America rely on the Medicaid program for their health coverage, little is known about who they…
Characteristics of Frequent Emergency Department Users September 29, 2007 Report The increased use of U.S. hospital emergency departments has received considerable attention from both the health care community and policymakers in recent years. This analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation examines the demographic and health characteristics of people who frequently visit the emergency room to help understand why their utilization…
Benefit improvements for low-income Medicare beneficiaries September 1, 2007 Report Benefit Improvements for Low-Income Medicare BeneficiariesThe Kaiser Family Foundation has prepared a summary showing how the House-passed Children’s Health and Medicare Protection (CHAMP) Act legislation would change current law regarding assistance for low-income Medicare beneficiaries. The summary describes proposed changes to current programs that provide assistance to low-income Medicare beneficiaries,…
What Happened to the Insurance Coverage of Children and Adults in 2006? August 30, 2007 Issue Brief A new, detailed analysis of the latest US Census Bureau data on health insurance coverage looks behind the 2.2 million increase in the number of uninsured, examining changes by age and income. Reversing years of steady declines, the number of uninsured children has grown by one million over the last…
The Burden of Out-of-Pocket Health Spending Among Older Versus Younger Adults: Analysis from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, 1998-2003 August 30, 2007 Issue Brief UPDATED: An updated version of this analysis is now available online. Recent policy debate has focused on the issue of rising health care costs and whether it might be possible to control costs by requiring consumers to pay a larger share of their health care costs out of pocket. While…
Toplines: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – August 2007 August 29, 2007 Poll Finding This document contains the detailed toplines from the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – August 2007 Toplines (.pdf)
Key Findings: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – August 2007 August 29, 2007 Poll Finding This document presents key findings from the August 2007 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008, which tracks changes in the saliency of health as a political and policy priority, what the public’s priorities are for a health reform plan and whether any candidates are breaking through with the public with…
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 – August 2007 August 29, 2007 Poll Finding This August 2007 tracking poll finds that health care remains the top domestic issue that the public wants presidential candidates to address in the campaign, trailing only Iraq on the public’s overall priority list. Both Republicans and Independents rank health care second to Iraq, while Democrats for the first time…