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Health Coverage & the Uninsured: Reform Proposals
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Health Care Reform Newsmaker: Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, appeared as the first guest in a series of Health Care Reform newsmaker briefings sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Families USA and the National Federation of Independent Business. An archived webcast and transcript is available.
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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.
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Healthy San Francisco Fact SheetIn 2007, San Francisco became the first city in the nation to begin implementation of a plan to provide health care services to all uninsured residents. A new fact sheet summarizes Healthy San Francisco, how it came to be, and key policy issues facing the program.
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Covering the Low-Income Uninsured: Assessing the Alternatives
An issue brief describing and analyzing expansions of Medicaid and SCHIP, tax credits for individually-purchased insurance, and tax credits for employment-based health insurance as options to expand health coverage of the low-income population.
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