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President-Elect Obama's Campaign Positions On Health Reform and Other Issues These summaries explain President-Elect Obama's campaign proposal on comprehensive health reform, as well as his campaign positions on a variety of other health care issues. Brief, Other Resources Examine Trends In Health Coverage and the Uninsured A new issue brief examines the underlying shifts in health insurance coverage in 2007 that led to an increase in coverage. The brief also projects that the current economic downturn and rising unemployment rate likely will cause the number of uninsured to grow by at least two million in 2008. There is also an updated uninsured primer and online chartbook. Low-Income Adults in New Orleans in 2008: Who Are They and How Are They Faring? 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. Trends in Access to Care Among Working-Age Adults, 1997-2006 This policy brief finds about 39 million working-age adults nationally reported cost as a barrier to receiving needed health care in 2006, a number that grew by an average of 1 million people annually over the decade studied. Uninsured working-aged adults experienced the most consistent erosion over the 10 years, resulting in a widening gap in access to care between insured and uninsured adults. States See Rising Enrollment In Medicaid As Economy Falters This annual 50-state survey of state officials on Medicaid and state budget actions finds enrollment in Medicaid 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.

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Health Coverage in a Period of Rising Unemployment -- December 2008

Medicaid: A Primer 2008 -- December 2008

President-Elect Obama's Campaign Position on Health Reform and Other Health Care Issues -- November 2008

Health Coverage of Children: The Role of Medicaid and SCHIP -- November 2008

State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP): Reauthorization History -- November 2008

The Fraying Link Between Work and Health Insurance: Trends in Employer-Sponsored Insurance for Employees, 2000-2007 -- November 2008

The Medicaid Program at a Glance - UPDATE -- November 2008

Emerging Health Information Technology for Children in Medicaid and SCHIP Programs -- November 2008

Vermont's Choices for Care Medicaid Long-Term Services Waiver: Progress and Challenges As the Program Concluded Its Third Year -- November 2008

State Fiscal Conditions & Medicaid -- November 2008

This policy brief outlines the public and private options available to help people maintain coverage if they become unemployed during a downturn and cannot get employer-sponsored coverage through a spouse.

The primer provides an overview of the basic components of Medicaid, the nation's largest health coverage program, which covers 59 million low-income individuals, including children and families, people with disabilities and the elderly who are also covered by Medicare.

These summaries explain President-Elect Obama's campaign proposal on comprehensive health reform, as well as his campaign positions on a variety of other health care issues.

This fact sheet summarizes the latest coverage data on the nation's children and examines the key role played by two public health coverage programs, Medicaid and SCHIP.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the reauthorization debate for the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 2007.

This analysis examines the factors behind the steady decline in the share of workers with employer-sponsored health insurance coverage between 2000 and 2007 and how that has contributed to increases in the uninsured rate for employees and their children.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Medicaid program, the populations that it serves and the services that it covers.

This report highlights states' innovative use of health information technology in their Medicaid and SCHIP programs to improve their ability to reach and enroll eligible children, improve the quality of care for children, increase communications with families, and continue to modernize their programs.

This case study report examines the experience of Vermont's Choices for Care experiment in delivering long-term services, created through a five-year Medicaid waiver in 2005. The state has seen a shift of people and money toward community settings, but also the return of waiting lists for some populations.

This fact sheet examines how an economic downturn increases state Medicaid program enrollment and costs at the same time that states face new budget constraints, as well as possible policy responses.

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