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2008

Premiums vs. Paychecks: A Growing Burden for Kansas Workers
Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2008 Current Population Survey
Nowhere to Turn: How the Individual Health Insurance Market Fails Women
Trade-Offs Getting Tougher: Problems Paying Medical Bills Increase for U.S. Families, 2003-2007
Seeing Red: The Growing Burden of Medical Bills and Debt Faced by U.S. Families
Number of Uninsured Up in Kansas, Down Nationally
ViewPoint Learning ChoiceDialogue Report (Final): Public Voices for Health Care in Kansas Topline Findings
Reports Highlight Kansan's Support for Expanding Care Coverage and Their Dissatisfaction with Current Health Care Costs
A Needed Lifeline: Chronically Ill Children and Public Health Insurance Coverage
How Many Are Underinsured? Trends Among U.S. Adults, 2003 and 2007
America’s Health Care Crisis: Cities on the Front Lines
Failing Grades: State Consumer Protections in the Individual Health Insurance Market
Building Blocks For Reform: Achieving Universal Coverage With Private And Public Group Health Insurance (Please note there is a fee to download entire report)
Emergency Departments Overcrowded by Many Patients With Health Insurance
Tobacco Is Costing Kansas
Economic Woes Affect Americans' Views of Health Care Reform
Dying for Coverage in Kansas
How Non-Group Health Coverage Varies with Income
States Are Raising the Age Limit for Young Adults to Remain on Parents' Policy
Relief, Restoration, and Reform: Economic Upturn Yields Modest and Uneven Health Returns
Health Coverage for Children and Families in Medicaid and SCHIP: State Efforts Face New Hurdles
Uninsured and Dying Because of It
A Progress Report on State Health Access Reform
Financial Burden of Health Care, 2001-2004 Recommendations Updated

2007

Borrowing to Stay Healthy: How Credit Card Debt Is Related to Medical Expenses
The Consequences of Medical Debt
Home Sick: How Medical Debt Undermines Housing Security
Issue Brief: 2007 Health Insurance Survey Farm and Ranch Operators
Living In The Red—Medical Debt and Housing Security In Missouri: Survey Findings and Profiles of Working Families
Paying for Health Care When You're Uninsured: How Much Support Does the Safety Net Offer?
How Trends in the Health Care System Affect Low-Income Adults: Identifying Access Problems and Financial Burdens
Data Brief: Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on the Transparency of Health Care Quality and Price Information in the United States
Overburdened and Overwhelmed: The Struggles of Communities with High Medical Cost Burdens
The Faces of Medicaid II: Recognizing the Care Needs of People with Multiple Chronic Conditions
Revisiting Massachusetts Health Reform: 18 Months Later
Kansas Health Policy Authority Board Health Reform Recommendations Updated
Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 (CHIPRA): The Revised CHIPRA Bill (H.R. 3963) Compared to the Original Bill (H.R. 976)
The Uninsured: A Primer Key Facts About Americans Without Health Insurance
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008
The Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey: Transparency of Health Care Quality and Price Information in the United States
Kansas Health Policy Authority Board: Health Care Reform Report
Schramm-Raleigh Health Care Reform Report
Kids Waiting for Coverage: How Many Are in Your State?
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006
Doctors Offering No-Interest Loans to Patients
Groups ponder health-reform ideas to present to Kansas Legislature
Closing the Divide: How Medical Homes Promote Equity in Health Care: Results from The Commonwealth Fund 2006 Health Care Quality Survey
Health Security Watch
Understanding Health Insurance in Kansas: Who Has It, and Where Do They Get It?
A Consumer Guide to Creating a Health Insurance Connector
Comparing Public and Private Health Insurance for Children
Curbing Medicare Overpayments to Private Insurers Could Benefit Minorities and Help Expand Children's Health Coverage
Improving the Medicare Part D Program for the Most Vulnerable Beneficiaries
Too Sick to Work, Too Soon for Medicare: The Human Cost of the Two-Year Medicare Waiting Period for Americans with Disabilities
Too Good to Be True: The Fine Print in Medicare Private Health Plan Benefits
Resident Physicians' Preparedness to Provide Cross-Cultural Care: Implications for Clinical Care and Medical Education Policy
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Discussion of Cancer Screening: "Between-" versus "Within-" Physician Differences (Please note there is a fee to download entire report)
Health Insurance across Vulnerable Ages: Patterns and Disparities from Adolescence to the Early 30s
Aiming Higher Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance
Affordable Health Care for All: What Does Affordable Really Mean?
The Illusion of Coverage: How Health Insurance Fails People When They Get Sick
Setting A Standard Of Affordability For Health Insurance Coverage
Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Low-Income Non-Citizen Children
Family Coverage Under SCHIP Waivers
SCHIP Turns 10: An Update on Enrollment and the Outlook on Reauthorization From the Program's Directors
E-Health Snapshot: Harnessing Technology To Improve Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment and Rentention Practices
Enrolling Children in Medicaid and SCHIP: Insights From Focus Groups With Low-Income Parents
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care
From ‘Soak The Rich’ To ‘Soak The Poor’: Recent Trends In Hospital Pricing
U.S. Health Care Sector Moves Rapidly To Provide Consumer Information on Value (html)
Small Businesses’ Premiums Soar After Illness
Insurance Coverage of Children by Race/Ethnicity and Poverty Level, 2005: National and State Level Estimates
Medicare Advantage Plans Can Be Too Good to Be True
ICHIA Legal Immigrant Children’s Health Improvement Act
Women and Health Coverage:The Affordability Gap
Low Income and Minority Beneficiaries Do Not Rely Disproportionately on Medicare Advantage Plans: Industry Campaign to Protect Billions in Overpayments Rests on Distortions
Kansas Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look at Race, Ethnicity and Health (html)
When An Apple A Day Isn't Enough
Medicare Part D Plan Characteristics
A systematic review of studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the United States (html)
Citizenship Documentation Requirements in Medicaid
A Pound of Flesh: Hospital Billing, Debt Collection, And Patients, Rights
Shopping For Price In Medical Care
Medicare Prescription Drug Plans Fail Limited-English Proficient Beneficiaries
Borrowing to Stay Healthy: How Credit Card Debt is Related to Medical Expenses
Resuming the Path to Health Coverage for Children and Parents
State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) at a Glance

2006

SCHIP Program Enrollment: June 2005 Update
The 2nd Annual EBRI-Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey
Election Survey Finds Broad Support for SCHIP
Behind the Slow Growth of Employer-Based Consumer-Driven Health Plans
2006 Medicare Advantage Benefits and Premiums
The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits
The Cost of Privatization; Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans' Updated and Revised
Medicaid Costs Are Growing More Slowly than Costs for Medicare or Private Insurance
Kansas Health Policy Authority Legislative & Policy Options
Consumer Health Advocacy: A View from 16 States
Losing Ground: Eroding Health Insurance Coverage Leaves Kansas Farmers with Medical Debt
Playing by the Rules but Losing

2005

Medicaid Enrollment in 50 States
Heartache in the Heartland
Real Clout: A How-to-Manual

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