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September 17, 2012
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Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
April 30, 2013
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RWJF solicited projects that focused on addressing specific aspects of the Affordable Care Act that present significant opportunities to expand coverage.
July 30, 2012
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The Altarum Institute engaged public health systems and services research stakeholders to produce a research agenda for the field.
September 18, 2009
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Mathematica study of SCHIP shows that state policies determine how long children receive SCHIP coverage and that children who leave SCHIP remain uninsured for many months.
April 30, 2013
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Social Interest Solutions created a tool to help states complete a "gap analysis" revealing which existing software and hardware they could use to create a new health insurance exchange and which resources they lacked.
April 25, 2013
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From 2009 to 2011, the Rural Policy Research Institute examined the impact of health reform proposals and the Affordable Care Act on rural people, places, and providers, and gave policy-makers unbiased, nonpartisan analysis.
March 25, 2013
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Researchers at the Hilltop Institute evaluated the implementation of Maryland’s tax-based outreach initiative, the Kids First Act, and how well the state achieved its goal of identifying and enrolling uninsured children eligible for Medicaid or CHIP.
March 1, 2003
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The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices educated governors and state health policy-makers about the health-related impact of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996.
June 1, 2000
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Senior state health officials from eight states convened to assess the potential impact of budget cuts and structural changes resulting from the shifting of responsibilities for Medicaid from the federal government to the states through the use of block grants.
February 29, 2008
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Researchers at Yale University examined the financial impact on children and their families of state laws mandating that insurers provide parity in coverage for mental and physical illness.
April 17, 2007
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Cover the Uninsured Week, March 10-16, 2003, focused national media attention on the coverage problem and featured hundreds of town meetings, health fairs and other public events in communities across the nation.
