Quantitative Analysis Reports
Medicaid Expansion Would Lighten Spending Burden
A state-by-state analysis shows where Medicaid expansion could have the most impact on reducing the financial burden of medical costs.
Medicaid
Urban Institute Real Time Policy Analysis
No Vet Left Behind
As many as 40 percent of the nation's 1.3 million uninsured veterans could qualify for Medicaid under provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a new analysis suggests. Whether veterans receive these benefits depends on which states opt to expand Medicaid.
State Network Resources
Medicaid Expansion: Who Won't Be Eligible?
Despite the far-reaching Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), large numbers of low-income uninsured adults won't be eligible because of their immigration status. This brief provides the first state-specific estimates of the number of uninsured low-income adults who fall into that category.
Survey
Support for State Insurance Exchanges Spans Party Lines
Fifty-five percent of the public say establishing the exchanges is a “top priority,” according to a survey released by RWJF, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health.
Urban Institute Real Time Policy Analysis
More to Gain, Less to Lose
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation, hospitals will likely gain $2.59 in new revenue from Medicaid participants for every dollar lost from private health insurance revenue.
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The Medicaid Managed Care Program
January 1, 2006 | Book
By the 1990s most Medicaid programs used managed care, and by 2003 some 60 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries were in managed care programs, largely HMOs. This chapter describes the evolution of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative, the Medica ...
Enrolling Eligible People in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program
January 1, 2009 | Book
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has made substantial investments in a variety of programs to make families aware that their children might be eligible for SCHIP or Medicaid benefits and to address the practical obstacles to enrollment and renewal. In this chapter of the Anthology, the journalist Irene Wielawski, examines the major Foundation-funded programs with this focus.
Health Care Markets Weather Economic Downturn, Brace for Health Reform
August 25, 2011 | Book
Center for Studying Health System Change Site Visits--2010
Community-Based Dental Education
January 1, 2009 | Book
Paul Brodeur, a freelance journalist and frequent contributor to the Anthology series, concludes, although initiatives such as the Dental Pipeline Program can have a beneficial effect, the problem of poor oral health is so severe and the disparities so extensive that it will require a large infusion of public and private capital to have a significant impact.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Efforts to Cover the Uninsured
January 1, 2006 | Book
Forty-five million Americans, many of them minorities or poor people, lack insurance coverage for basic health care. Research shows that people without health insurance receive less medical care and are in poorer health than insured people. This art ...
The Covering Kids Commmunications Campaign
January 1, 2003 | Book
This Anthology chapter analyzes the strategy and the approaches used in a major Foundation-funded communications campaign that supported RWJF's Covering Kids ® program.
Consumer Choice in Long-Term Care
January 1, 2002 | Book
An examination of the Foundation's consumer choice programs and preliminary lessons learned from each.
Coming Home
January 1, 2000 | Book
One of the Foundation's targets in the chronic care area is increasing the capacity of communities to meet the supportive care needs of chronically ill people. This chapter of the RWJF Anthology examines assisted living,
The Partnership for Long-Term Care
January 1, 2007 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, Alper discusses the Foundation's Program to Promote Long-Term Care Insurance for the Elderly that allowed nursing home patients with state-approved private long-term care insurance policies to be eligible for Medicaid.
Supportive Housing
January 1, 2007 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, the Foundation's investments in housing is discussed, from its early efforts to provide health care services to homeless people, to its current support of the Corporation for Supportive Housing.