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The COBRA Subsidy and Health Insurance for the Unemployed This issue brief written by Kaiser staff examines the potential impact and limitations of new temporary subsidies to help people maintain their employer-sponsored health coverage after a layoff created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Snapshots from the Kitchen Table: Family Budgets and Health Care A report and companion video on family budgets and health care illustrate the financial struggles of many families in the U.S. and show the central role of health care costs and coverage in a household's economic stability. A related issue brief tells the stories of families who have suffered financial reversals and lost health coverage in the economic downturn. Guide Provides Overview of Policy Approaches to Covering the Uninsured This reference guide explains the key strategies for expanding affordable coverage to the nation's uninsured population and explains how different policy approaches can be combined to form comprehensive reform proposals. There is also an updated uninsured primer and online chartbook.

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CHIP TIPS: Citizenship Documentation Changes -- May 2009

Where Does the Burden Lie?: Medicaid and Medicare Spending for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries -- April 2009

Trends in Medicaid Physician Fees, 2003-2008 -- April 2009

Oral Health Coverage and Care For Low-Income Children: The Role of Medicaid and CHIP -- April 2009

CHIP TIPS Series Focuses On New Opportunities For Covering Children Under Medicaid and CHIP -- April 2009

CHIP TIPS: Medicaid Performance Bonus -- April 2009

CHIP TIPS: Medicaid Performance Bonus "5 of 8" Requirements -- April 2009

Health Care and Medicaid -- Weathering the Recession -- March 2009

New, Updated Resources on Community Health Centers -- March 2009

How Is The Primary Care Safety Net Faring in Massachusetts? Community Health Centers In The Midst of Health Reform -- March 2009

This brief, the third in a series, examines changes to citizenship documentation requirements under the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009.

This issue brief analyzes the demographic and health characteristics of people who are simultaneously eligible for Medicaid and Medicare, as well as their patterns of service utilization and spending under both programs.

A study published in Health Affairs provides the first national and state-by-state update of Medicaid physician fees since 2003. It shows that Medicaid physician fees grew by more than 15 percent from 2003 to 2008, narrowing the gap with Medicare -- but losing ground to inflation.

This updated policy brief provides an overview of oral health care access and coverage for low-income children.

This series of implementation briefs called “CHIP Tips” examines new opportunities for covering children following the reauthorization and expansion of CHIP in February 2009. The series is jointly produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the Center for Children and Families at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.

This brief, the first in a series, examines the new federal "performance bonus" available to states that do an especially good job of signing up eligible children for Medicaid.
It reflects an understanding that aggressive state outreach efforts for CHIP tend also to drive up enrollment in state Medicaid programs. The bonus stems from a provision in the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009.

This brief, the second in a series, examines the requirements that states must meet to be eligible for the new "performance bonus" available to states that do an especially good job of signing up eligible children for Medicaid. The bonus is a financial incentive for states created by a provision in the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009.

Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation and executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, examines the ongoing recession's impact on health coverage and state Medicaid programs, which face growing demand and enrollment at the same time that states are confronting severe budget crises.

The Kaiser Family Foundation has issued three new resources that examine the role of community health centers as a key components of the U.S. health care system, providing primary care to more than 16 million patients nationwide in 2007.

This report examines how community health centers have fared under Massachusetts' health reform law.

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