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Making It Easier to Request Your Medical Records
A new tool aimed at redesigning the way patients request medical records was released at the recent Biden Cancer Summit.
How Might New Medicaid Waivers Affect State Delivery System Reform?
Since the Trump administration began encouraging states to consider new Medicaid waiver policies, such as work requirements, 19 states have approved or pending waivers that restrict coverage. In a To the Point series, Cindy Mann of Manatt, Phelps &…
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Small Businesses
More small-business workers, solo entrepreneurs, and other self-employed Americans have insurance coverage since the ACA’s insurance market reforms, consumer subsidies, and Medicaid expansion took effect, according to a new report by authors David Chas…
Transforming Care: Racism and Health Care Disparities
The new issue of our quarterly newsletter examines how health system leaders can reduce race-based disparities in health care by confronting the role of racism head on.
Has Health Care Coverage and Access Improved in Your State?
Visit our map and download fact sheets to see changes over time in: the percentage of uninsured adults and adults going without care because of costs, enrollment in marketplace plans and Medicaid, and the amount of federal support for health coverage.
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What Puts Even Healthy Low-Income People at Risk
Research continues to demonstrate that efforts to improve the health of people with low incomes are unlikely to succeed unless social and environmental conditions that affect health are also addressed. Using national survey data, Peter J. Cunningham of…
What Is Your State Doing to Protect Health Coverage?
Our maps, updated by researchers at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms, track actions states are taking to protect their residents’ health insurance coverage and access. Most recently, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill p…
“Quiet Progress” in Reducing Drug Costs
Congress is making “quiet progress” on lowering drug costs for patients, say pharmaceutical policy experts Kristi Martin and Jeremy Sharp of Waxman Strategies. In their post on To the Point, Martin and Sharp explain how legislation currently moving thr…
New Survey Finds Kansans Would Benefit from Medicaid Expansion
Medicaid expansion has been a big issue in many states this election season, and Kansas is no exception. A study comparing the state’s low-income residents with their counterparts in Indiana and Ohio finds not only significantly higher numbers of unins…
