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New Reports and Briefing Focus on Dental Health Coverage and Access
Three new reports about dental health coverage and access for the nation's low-income population were released by the Foundation's Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured at a Capitol Hill briefing examining these issues.

Health Coverage in an Economic Downturn: Impact of Tight Budgets for Families and States
The economic downturn has strained family finances and led some Americans to cut back on medical care. The Foundation has a number of resources that shed light on how Americans and states are faring and provide background on the uninsured, employer-sponsored health insurance costs and trends in states’ Medicaid enrollment and spending.

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Health Coverage in an Economic Downturn: Impact of Tight Budgets on Families and States -- November 2008
The economic downturn has strained family finances and led some Americans to cut back on medications and medical care. The Foundation has a number of resources that shed light on how Americans and states are faring and provide background on the uninsured, employer-sponsored health insurance costs, trends in states’ Medicaid enrollment and spending and prior efforts to support the Medicaid program during a slumping economy.

Low-Income Adults in New Orleans in 2008: Who Are They and How Are They Faring? -- October 2008
Based on data from Kaiser's Second Post-Katrina Survey, this Survey Brief finds that New Orleans continues to have a sizeable population of low-income adults in 2008, and that these adults are more likely than other adults in the city to still be dealing with recovery from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and financial and health care challenges.

Headed for a Crunch: An Update on Medicaid Spending, Coverage and Policy Heading into an Economic Downturn -- September 2008

This eighth annual 50-state survey on Medicaid and state budget actions finds enrollment began to rise in fiscal year 2008 with states expecting even larger increases for fiscal year 2009. With the increased enrollment, Medicaid spending is also rising more rapidly than in the recent past.

New Reports and Briefing Focus on Dental Health Coverage and Access -- July 2008

Three new reports about dental health coverage and access for the nation's low-income population were released by the Foundation's Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured at a Capitol Hill briefing examining these issues.

Access to Affordable Dental Care: Gaps for Low-Income Adults -- July 2008

This brief finds that both dental coverage and access to care are limited for low-income adults and that even low-income adults with dental coverage are not getting sufficient levels of needed dental care.

Filling an Urgent Need: Improving Children’s Access to Dental Care in Medicaid and SCHIP -- July 2008

This report is a summary of a discussion with oral health experts and their recommendations for state policies related to children’s access to oral health care.

Choosing Premium Assistance: What Does State Experience Tell Us? -- June 2008

This brief examines six state premium assistance programs (in Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Oregon, Utah, and Virginia) that allow families to choose to receive a subsidy to apply to the purchase of private coverage rather than to receive direct Medicaid or SCHIP coverage.

Kaiser Fast Facts -- May 2008
“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.

Medicaid's Role in Family Planning -- October 2007
The Alan Guttmacher Institute and the Kaiser Family Foundation have updated this issue brief to provide an overview and analysis of the important role that Medicaid plays in financing family planning services to low-income women across the nation.

NPR/Kaiser/Harvard Survey: Public Views on SCHIP Reauthorization -- October 2007
This October 2007 survey conducted jointly by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health examines the public’s views and opinions of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the pending legislation surrounding its reauthorization.

The economic downturn has strained family finances and led some Americans to cut back on medications and medical care. The Foundation has a number of resources that shed light on how Americans and states are faring and provide background on the uninsured, employer-sponsored health insurance costs, trends in states’ Medicaid enrollment and spending and prior efforts to support the Medicaid program during a slumping economy.

Based on data from Kaiser's Second Post-Katrina Survey, this Survey Brief finds that New Orleans continues to have a sizeable population of low-income adults in 2008, and that these adults are more likely than other adults in the city to still be dealing with recovery from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and financial and health care challenges.

This eighth annual 50-state survey on Medicaid and state budget actions finds enrollment began to rise in fiscal year 2008 with states expecting even larger increases for fiscal year 2009. With the increased enrollment, Medicaid spending is also rising more rapidly than in the recent past.

Three new reports about dental health coverage and access for the nation's low-income population were released by the Foundation's Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured at a Capitol Hill briefing examining these issues.

This brief finds that both dental coverage and access to care are limited for low-income adults and that even low-income adults with dental coverage are not getting sufficient levels of needed dental care.

This report is a summary of a discussion with oral health experts and their recommendations for state policies related to children’s access to oral health care.

This brief examines six state premium assistance programs (in Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Oregon, Utah, and Virginia) that allow families to choose to receive a subsidy to apply to the purchase of private coverage rather than to receive direct Medicaid or SCHIP coverage.

“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute and the Kaiser Family Foundation have updated this issue brief to provide an overview and analysis of the important role that Medicaid plays in financing family planning services to low-income women across the nation.

This October 2007 survey conducted jointly by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health examines the public’s views and opinions of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the pending legislation surrounding its reauthorization.

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Medicaid/SCHIP: Low-Income Families

Although the children in low-income families are generally eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP, the vast majority of parents in these families do not qualify for publicly-subsidized coverage unless they have income far below the poverty line and minimal assets. Since these parents tend to work in low-wage jobs that often do not offer health insurance coverage, they are at high risk of being uninsured – close to one third of parents in families with income below 200 percent of the poverty line are uninsured. When low-income working parents lack coverage, they are more likely to go without needed care or to incur catastrophically high medical bills. A growing body of research also indicates the children of parents without health insurance are more likely themselves to be uninsured and to lack access to care. One particularly vulnerable group of low-income families is those in which the parents have recently left welfare for employment. Although these families generally are eligible to receive some transitional health care coverage through Medicaid after leaving welfare, they often miss out on this coverage due to challenging enrollment procedures and end up uninsured.