October 18, 2010
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Program Result
The Urban Institute researched policy options and produced a policy paper to help states implement "automated enrollment," a strategy designed to ensure that eligible children enroll in publicly supported health insurance programs.
October 8, 2010
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Program Result
In January 2009, with the U.S. Congress and president Barack Obama's new administration preparing to consider national health care legislation, Families USA organized Health Action 2009 around the theme "Winning Historic Health Care Reform."
October 8, 2010
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Program Result
In May 2009, researchers at the Center for Children and Families at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute produced a report providing a blueprint for what children and families need from health reform.
October 8, 2010
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The Access Project, Boston, analyzed a 2007 household survey of 2,000 farmers and ranchers in seven Great Plains states to examine the cost and adequacy of their health insurance and their overall financial status.
September 16, 2010
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Program Result
The Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured generated new ideas and engaged new researchers in efforts to increase understanding of the relationships among labor markets, health care markets and health insurance coverage.
September 16, 2010
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Program Result
A study finds that after Massachusetts passed health reform, the percentage of uninsured adults dropped from 13.3 percent to 4 percent - a 69.9 percent decline.
August 30, 2010
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Program Result
Mountain Health Choices promised additional benefits to low-income families who agreed to some basic rules designed to increase personal responsibility and strengthen their relationship to a medical home.
April 16, 2010
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Program Result
In September 2008, Families USA, a national nonprofit organization advocating for high-quality health care, convened 20 interest groups for a dialogue on the possible contours of health care reform.
March 22, 2010
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Program Result
Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute updated the guides for 15 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas.
March 2, 2010
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Program Result
One of the Covering Kids & Families strategies was to help grantees improve and simplify the administrative processes for determining eligibility, enrolling eligible children and families in Medicaid or CHIP and retaining them in coverage.
