New on the Web 81 (June 2011)
From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: “Honing Cultural and Linguistic Competence: Innovations for Building Cultural and Linguistic Competence”
From the Alliance for Health Reform:“Keeping Coverage Continuous: Smoothing the Path between Medicaid and the Exchange”
From the Coalition on Human Needs: “Stop the Slashing: The Human Needs Advocates’ Simple Guide to Understanding—and Defeating—Unprecedented Attacks on the Federal Budget”
From the Commonwealth Fund: “Health Care Opinion Leaders’ Views on Health Reform and the Role of States,” “Maintaining Coverage, Affordability, and Shared Responsibility When Income and Employment Change”
From the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute and the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI): “Active Purchasing for Health Insurance Exchanges: An Analysis of Options”
From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: “Explaining Health Reform: The New Rules for Determining Income under Medicaid in 2014,” “Medicaid’s Role for Black Americans,” “Medicaid’s Role for Hispanic Americans”
From the Kaiser Family Foundation: “Caring for People Covered by Both Medicare and Medicaid: A Primer on Dually Eligible Beneficiaries,” “Health Reform Source,” “Women’s Health Care Chartbook: Key Findings from the Women’s Health Survey”
From the PEW Center on the States: “Managed Care Explained: Why a Medicaid Innovation Is Spreading”
From the Urban Institute: “Health Policy Center Checkup: Kids, Coverage Challenges, and Quality Care”
From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality:
Honing Cultural and Linguistic Competence: Innovations for Building Cultural and Linguistic Competence is a collection of tools that provide a wide range of models for advancing cultural and linguistic competence. The web page also includes links to perspectives from leaders in the field, definitions of related concepts, and other resources. (June 2011)
From the Alliance for Health Reform:
Keeping Coverage Continuous: Smoothing the Path between Medicaid and the Exchange looks at the approaches states and the federal government are taking to minimize the disruption for people who will be moving between public coverage and the exchanges as their incomes fluctuate. (May 2011)
From the Coalition on Human Needs:
Stop the Slashing: The Human Needs Advocates’ Simple Guide to Understanding—and Defeating—Unprecedented Attacks on the Federal Budget is a webinar that aims to educate advocates so that they can respond to attacks on essential programs and services, such as Medicaid and Medicare. It explains the federal budget proposals, including the Ryan budget and several budget amendments that have been proposed in the Senate, and shows the impact those proposals will have on the programs that would be cut and on the people who depend on them. (June 2011)
From the Commonwealth Fund:
Health Care Opinion Leaders’ Views on Health Reform and the Role of States finds that seven out of 10 leaders in health care and health care policy favor the balance of authority between states and the federal government that was set forth by the health care law. However, respondents were concerned about the potential barriers to implementation, especially the current fiscal crises in many states. (May 2011)
Maintaining Coverage, Affordability, and Shared Responsibility When Income and Employment Change offers recommendations on how states and the federal government can coordinate eligibility for premium credits, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); facilitate continuous coverage as incomes change; and minimize transitions between the individual and small business exchanges as they implement the health care law. (May 2011)
From the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute and the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI):
Active Purchasing for Health Insurance Exchanges: An Analysis of Options discusses whether active purchasing or a broader approach—similar to Travelocity.com—would be preferable for states. While there is no one-size-fits-all plan for every state, it concludes that, even in the states that are most resistant to active purchasing, there will be at least some activities that exchanges can undertake on behalf of beneficiaries. (June 2011)
From the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured:
Explaining Health Reform: The New Rules for Determining Income under Medicaid in 2014 explains the new rules and describes the differences between the new and current income counting rules that are used in Medicaid and CHIP. (June 2011)
Medicaid’s Role for Black Americans provides statistics on how many African Americans have coverage through Medicaid and the impact that that coverage has had on the population as a whole, especially during the recession. (May 2011)
Medicaid’s Role for Hispanic Americans provides statistics on how many Latinos have coverage through Medicaid and the impact that that coverage has had on the population as a whole, especially during the recession. (May 2011)
From the Kaiser Family Foundation:
Caring for People Covered by Both Medicare and Medicaid: A Primer on Dually Eligible Beneficiaries discusses the characteristics and needs of this population, how Medicaid and Medicare coordinate payment and care, and how the health reform law will improve coordination and delivery of services for dual eligibles. (June 2011)
Health Reform Source is a simple, comprehensive collection of all of Kaiser’s resources on the health reform law, including public opinion research, policy briefs, and presentations. (June 2011)
Women’s Health Care Chartbook: Key Findings from the Women’s Health Survey presents data that illuminate how women are faring in the health care system and that highlight differences in experience between various subgroups of women, particularly those who are at risk for poor access to health care, low-income women, and women of color. (May 2011)
From the PEW Center on the States:
Managed Care Explained: Why a Medicaid Innovation Is Spreading explains how Medicaid managed care works and why so many states are turning to it now. (June 2011)
From the Urban Institute:
Health Policy Center Checkup: Kids, Coverage Challenges, and Quality Care assesses the state of children’s health coverage, including how successful Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have been in meeting children’s needs, how the health reform law will change children’s coverage, and how states and the federal government can boost enrollment in these coverage programs. (June 2011)
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