New on the Web 25: April 2004 

American Public Health Association: Health Disparities Community Solutions database

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law: "Medicaid Waiver Can Help States Serve Children"

The Center for Studying Health System Change: "Can Market Competition Cure an Ailing Health System?"

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: "Administration's Proposed Tax Credit for the Purchase of Health Insurance Could Weaken Employer-Based Health Insurance"

The Commonwealth Fund: "Unequal Access: Insurance Instability Among Low-Income Workers and Minorities," and "Quality Health Care for Children and Adolescents: A Chartbook"

KaiserEDU

Kaiser Family Foundation: "2001 Kaiser Women's Health Survey and Issue Briefs," "New Kaiser Family Foundation Survey Shows Seniors Confused About Medicare Rx Drug Law"

Kaiser Network: "Ask the Experts"

The Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Affairs: "Outlook for Health Spending"

National Association of Community Health Centers: "A Nation's Health at Risk"

National Small Business Association: "Association Health Plan Legislation Will Raise Insurance Rates"

From the American Public Health Association:

The Health Disparities Community Solutions database details projects and interventions that address health disparity challenges in our communities. These interventions have been reported by a wide range of groups from across the country, including city and state departments of public health, non profits, and academic think tanks. (April 2004) 

From the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law:

As the effectiveness of Medicaid's home- and community-based waiver becomes increasingly evident, it's all the more clear that Washington should take the lead to help states use the waiver to serve children with mental health needs. Unfortunately, the waiver is underutilized nationally and access to home- and community-based services for children remains limited. In Medicaid Waiver Can Help States Serve Children, Bazelon Center for Medical Health Law explains why. (February 2004)

From the Center for Studying Health System Change:

Confidence in market competition to spur high-quality, affordable health care is waning in communities across the country, according to research by the Center for Studying Health System Change. As belief fades that market forces can spur greater efficiency, health care leaders in 12 communities across the country are reconsidering the idea of government intervention in the health care system. A March conference entitled Can Market Competition Cure an Ailing Health System explored this idea, and Web casts are available for each session. (March 2004)

From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:

As part of its fiscal year 2005 budget, the Administration has again proposed to provide a refundable tax credit to individuals and families for the purchase of health insurance in the individual health insurance market. The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities' Administration's Proposed Tax Credit For the Purchase of Health Insurance Could Weaken Employer-Based Health Insurance discusses the potential drawbacks of such a plan. (April 2004)

From the Commonwealth Fund:

In Unequal Access: Insurance Instability Among Low-Income Workers and Minorities, the Commonwealth Fund explores why low-income minority workers had higher uninsured rates and greater insurance instability than had been previously documented. Most low-income adults worked during the four years, but many had no or only intermittent job-based coverage. (April 2004)

Health care for children in the United States is appallingly bad, according to Quality of Health Care for Children and Adolescents: A Chartbook. The extensive report includes chart sections on the effectiveness of pediatric care; patient safety; racial, ethnic, and other disparities; and more. Most importantly, the report provides an examination of the capacity for improvement in this critical area of health care. (April 2004)

From KaiserEDU:

Developed by the Kaiser Family Foundation, kaiserEDU gives health policy students and faculty easy access to data, literature, news and developments regarding major health policy topics and debates. While kaiserEDU.org is targeted to the academic community, it provides a wealth of information that can be used as an integral part of an educational program, as an additional source for independent research, or as background for a variety of audiences. (March 2004)

From the Kaiser Family Foundation:

The Kaiser Women's Health Survey was designed to better understand how the health system is working for women, in terms of health coverage, access to services, and in meeting their health needs. The resulting 2001 Kaiser Women's Health Survey and Issue Briefs presents an in-depth look at health care access challenges faced by low-income women and women of color face as well as women's roles in family health care decision-making and coordination. (March 2004)

New Kaiser Family Foundation Survey Shows Seniors Confused About Medicare Rx Drug Law argues that seniors are confused about the Medicare prescription drug debate and the prescription drug law. While about two-thirds of seniors report following the debate closely, just 15 percent say they understood the new drug law very well and almost seven in 10 don't know that it passed and was signed into law. (February 2004)

From the Kaiser Network:

Kaiser's live call-in show, Ask the Experts, recently focused on racial and ethnic disparities in health care. A web cast and transcript of the session are available. (April 2004)

From the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Affairs:

"Outlook for Health Spending," the first report resulting from a continuing Health Affairs and Kaiser Family Foundation partnership, has leading health policy experts examining new projections of future health care spending, including implications of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit. This partnership will publish a series of Web exclusives to speed dissemination of critical health care data. Web casts and related links are part of the package. (February 2004)

From the National Association of Community Health Centers:

Thirty-six million Americans, some of whom actually have health insurance coverage, lack access to basic medical care because they live in communities where there is an acute shortage of health care providers. A Nation's Health at Risk describes who and where those people are, why having a regular provider is so important, and how the national initiative to expand community health centers has helped to meet this pressing need. (March 2004)

From the National Small Business Association:

Association Health Plan legislation will raise insurance rates argues that health insurance costs for small businesses will rise and the number of uninsured will increase by over one million, if federal Association Health Plan (AHP) legislation is enacted. Find out how and why in this press release. (April 2004)

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