How Do Medicaid/CHIP Children with Special Health Care Needs Differ from Those with Private Insurance? June 12, 2019 Issue Brief This issue brief compares the demographics, health status, access to care, and coverage affordability of Medicaid/CHIP children with special health care needs to those with private insurance and those who are uninsured. Medicaid plays a key role for children with special health care needs by making coverage affordable and covering services that private coverage typically does not. Consequently, legislative proposals that would cap and reduce federal Medicaid funding may pose a particular risk to children with special health care needs and their providers. A companion brief describes Medicaid’s role for children with special health care needs.
Strategies for Improving Health Coverage and Reducing Costs: Major Proposals and Key Considerations June 12, 2019 Issue Brief KFF’s Tricia Neuman’s testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means on June 12, 2019 describes a range of proposals to broaden health insurance coverage and make health care more affordable, the similarities and differences among them, and the policy choices and trade-offs that could have significant implications for coverage and costs.
Visualizing Health Policy: Barriers to Care Experienced by Women in the United States June 11, 2019 Infographic This Visualizing Health Policy infographic, produced in partnership with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), looks at barriers to care experienced by women in the United States.
Medicaid’s Role in Addressing the Opioid Epidemic June 3, 2019 Infographic This infographic provides information and statistics about the opioid epidemic and Medicaid’s role in covering addiction treatment services.
The Opioid Epidemic and Medicaid’s Role in Facilitating Access to Treatment May 24, 2019 Issue Brief This brief describes nonelderly adults with opioid use disorder, including their demographic characteristics and insurance status, and compares utilization of treatment services among those with Medicaid to those with other types of coverage. It also describes Medicaid financing for opioid treatment and the ways in which Medicaid promotes access to treatment for enrollees with OUD.
JAMA Forum: Medicare-For-All or Medicare-For-More? May 22, 2019 Perspective In this May 2019 post for The JAMA forum, Larry Levitt examines how the early discussion and positioning among the presidential candidates offers a glimpse into how a debate about Medicare-for-all might play out.
Web Briefing: Making Sense of Medicare-For-All and Other Plans to Expand Public Coverage May 21, 2019 Event This web briefing with senior policy analysts at KFF examine proposals to expand public coverage like Medicare-for-all and their implications for the nation’s health care system.
Insurance Coverage Among People with HIV and the General Population, Nonelderly Adults, 2015 May 20, 2019 Slide
Insurance Coverage Among Nonelderly Adults with HIV in Medicaid Expansion and Non-expansion States, 2015 May 20, 2019 Slide
Health and Health Care for Blacks in the United States May 10, 2019 Infographic This infographic provides data on the current status of health and health care for Blacks, including measures of their health coverage, health access and use, and health outcomes.
