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Health Subsidy Calculator IconOnline Tool Illustrates How Premium Subsidies Work In Reform Plans (Updated!)

This interactive calculator illustrates the premiums and subsidies for those who purchase coverage on their own through an exchange or gateway because they don't get health insurance through their employers, Medicare or Medicaid, as provided under the key Congressional reform plans.

Webcast—Today's Topics in Health Disparities: Is the Health Care System Ready for Health Reform?
This live, interactive webcast examined how ready the health care system is for the influx of newly covered individuals that health reform aims to deliver.

The “Third School” for Controlling Health Care Costs?, The Latest "Pulling It Together, From Drew Altman"

In his latest column, the Kaiser Family Foundation's President and CEO explores the rise to prominence of the "Systems Reformers" and their place in efforts to control health care costs.

Health Reform and the States

Fact sheets, reports, and interactive maps describe state health reform initiatives.

States Moving Toward Comprehensive Health Care Reform
State Variation and Health Reform: A Chartbook
Massachusetts Health Care Reform: Three Years Later

Spotlight

Health Reform Side-by-SideSide-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals (Updated!)

This interactive side-by-side compares the leading comprehensive reform proposals, including the new House Leadership Bill, across a number of key characteristics and plan components.  The Foundation also has prepared summaries of the  Medicaid and Medicare provisions in the legislation moving through Congress.

lbjmedicareiconHistory of Health Reform Efforts in the U.S.

This interactive timeline provides an overview of health reform efforts in the U.S. over the last century.

Research / Analysis

Explaining the Basics of Health Reform

Explaining Health Reform
  • How Might a Reform Plan Be Financed?
  • What Are Health Insurance Exchanges?
  • What Are Health Insurance Subsidies?
  • What is Comparative Effectiveness Research?
Tutorial: The Process of Health Reform Legislation
Approaches to Covering the Uninsured: A Guide
Glossary of Key Terms in Health Reform

Issue Briefs

  • Health Reform: State Financing and Medicaid
  • Immigrants’ Health Coverage and Health Reform
  • Medicare Savings in Perspective: A Comparison of 2009 Health Reform Legislation and Other Laws in the Last 15 Years
  • Health Reform: Implications for Women's Access to Coverage and Care

In Depth Analysis

  • Health Reform Lessons From Massachusetts
  • Health Care and the Middle Class: More Costs and Less Coverage
  • The Coverage and Cost Impacts of Expanding Medicaid
  • View more policy resources

Health Policy Headlines and Multimedia

Headlines
Audio/Video
  • Democrats Hail Historic House Health Reform Bill, Turn Focus To Senate
  • A Divided House Approves Sweeping Health Reform Legislation, 220-215
  • House Debates Historic Health Reform Legislation, Anti-Abortion Amendment Passes
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  • Tutorial: The Process of Health Reform Legislation
  • Health Care Reform Newsmaker Series: Sen. Max Baucus
  • Health Care Reform Newsmaker Series: Sen. Orrin Hatch

Public Opinion

October Health Tracking Poll

The October Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds public support for health reform unchanged since last month, with more in favor than opposed. Survey also shows about half of the public believes that if reform passes, help for the uninsured and changes in insurance market rules would arrive within the first year, years ahead of the timetables contemplated in the legislation.

  • View more public opinion resources

Testimony

Testimony IconCongressional Testimony on Health Reform

The Foundation's experts are frequently invited to provide expert testimony before Congress on key health reform issues, including the May 5 U.S. Senate Committee on Finance coverage.

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