Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City
Research and Anaylsis
Health Reform
HCF Policy Presentations
HCF Policy Talking Points
HCF Produced Papers
Jointly Funded Publications
MISSOURI
- Informational Memo: Impact of Health Care Reform Bill on Missouri Medicaid Program (MO HealthNet)Missouri Department of Social Services, March 2010
- How Federal Reform Will Help Missouri's Families and Communities
Jobs for Justice, March 2010
- Health Insurance Reform and Missouri: The Case for Change
HealthReform.Gov, March 2010
- Charity Care at Missouri Hospitals 2004-2006
St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition/Missouri Foundation for Health, February 2010
- Regional Health Care Initiative - Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations
Mid-America Regional Council, February 2010
- Missouri County Health Rankings
Robert Wood Johnson, February 2010
- Safety Net Capacity Report
Mid-America Regional Council, July 2009
- Missouri's 2005 Medicaid Cuts: How Did They Affect Enrollees and Providers?
Kaiser Family Foundation, February 2009
- Missouri Medicaid Basics
Missouri Foundation For Health, Winter 2009
- New US Census Report Shows More Missourians Living in Poverty
Missouri Budget Project, October 2008
- Defining Affordable Health Care for Missouri
Cover Missouri, Fall 2008
- A “TABOR” by Any Other Name Hampers Missouri Just as Much
Missouri Budget Project, May 2008
- State of Missouri Health Disparities Report: Promoting Health Equity and Reducing Health Disparities in Missouri
Missouri Office of Minority Health, May 2008
- The Significance of Missouri’s Uninsured
Cover Missouri, 2008
- What The 2008 Census Indicates About the Uninsured in Missouri
The Missouri Budget Project, October 2008
- Private Health Insurance: Recent Data Reveal Disturbing Trends
The Missouri Budget Project, November 2008
- Health Savings Accounts: Will they work for low income families?
The Missouri Budget Project, March 2008
- Expanding Insurance Coverage for Workers in Small Businesses
Missouri Foundation for Health, March 2007
- Supporting Private Insurance Through Premium Assistance
Missouri Foundation for Health, January 2007
- The Cost of Care for Missouri’s Uninsured
Missouri Foundation for Health, 2006
- Geographic Variations in Health Insurance: A Profile of Missouri
Missouri Foundation for Health, 2006
- Expanding Coverage Through the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan
Missouri Foundation for Health, 2006
- Implementing Reinsurance: Health Insurance Reform in Missouri
Missouri Foundation for Health, 2006
- Increasing Health Insurance in Missouri Through Subsidies
Missouri Foundation for Health, 2006
- The Missouri Health Insurance Pool, Issues for Policymakers
Missouri Foundation for Health, 2006
- Tracking Bills in Missouri
www.house.mo.gov/jointsearch
- Tracking News in Missouri
www.sos.mo.gov/library/reference/KeepingUpOnline
KANSAS
- Voices of the Uninsured: Kansans Tell Their Stories
Kansas Health Institute, April 2010
- Health Insurance Reform and Kansas: The Case for Change
HealthReform.Gov, March 2010
- When Health Insurance is Not Enough: Kansas and Underinsurance
Kansas Health Institute, February 2010
- Regional Health Care Initiative - Findings, Conclusions and Recommendations
Mid-America Regional Council, February 2010
- Kansas County Health Rankings
Robert Wood Johnson, February 2010
- Safety Net Capacity Report
Mid-America Regional Council, July 2009
- Getting Ahead in Kansas: An Asset-Building Policy Roadmap for Establishing Real Opportunities for Kansas Families to Achieve Financial Prosperity
Kansas Action for Children, June 2009
- Working Together for a Healthier Kansas: A Status Report on the Social Determinants of Health in Kansas
Kansas Department of Health and Environment, January 2009
- Economic Impact of Lawrence Smoke-Free Ordinance, Issue Brief
Kansas Health Institute, January 2009
- The Growing Health and Financial Costs of Inadequate Health Insurance, Issue Brief
Kansas Health Institute, January 2009
- Getting and Keeping Coverage: States' Experience with Citizenship Documentation Rules
The Commonwealth Fund, January 2009
- What Will It Take? A Guide to Making Kansas the Best State in the Nation to Raise a Child
Kansas Action for Children, 2008
- The Uninsured in Kansas: New Data from the US Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey
Kansas Health Institute, September 2008
- Employer Sponsored Insurance in Kansas – Issue Brief
Kansas Health Institute, March 2008
- Uninsured Young Adults in Kansas
Kansas Health Institute, May 2008
- Health Insurance and the Uninsured in Kansas
Kansas Health Institute, February 2008
- Reinsurance and State Health Reform: Lessons from the Kansas Reinsurance Modeling Project
Kansas Health Institute, January 2008
- Pricing the Roadmap to Health Insurance Reform Option
Kansas Health Policy Authority Board, November 2007
- Kansas Health Reform Recommendations
Kansas Health Policy Authority Board, November 2007
NATIONAL
- Health Care Reform: The New Law
Saint Louis University School of Law, April 2010
- Health Care Reform: What Happens Immediately
Saint Louis University School of Law, March 2010
- Summary of Coverage Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
Focus on Reform, Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2010
- Health Reform Implementation Timetable
Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2010
- What Will Health Reform Mean for You?
White House, March 2010
- Barely Hanging On: Middle-Class and Uninsured
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, March 2010
- The Cost of Delay: State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children
The Pew Center on the States, February 2010
- National Plan of Action - Changing Outcomes - Achieving Health Equity
US Department of Health and Human Services, February 2010
- Summary of President Obama's Health Insurance Reform Proposal
Missouri Health Alliance, February 2010
- The Economic Stimulus: Gauging the Early Effects of ARRA Funding on Health Centers and Medically Underserved Populations and Communities
The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, February 2010
- Insurance Companies Prosper, Families Suffer: Our Broke Health Insurance SystemHealthReform.Gov
- Public Opinion on Health Care Issues
Kaiser Family Foundation, January 2010
- Tobacco Coverage in the Print Media
Tobacco Control, December 2009
- A State Policymakers'Guide to Federal Health Reform - Part 1: Anticipating How Federal Health Reform Will Affect State Roles
National Academy for State Health Policy, December 2009
- State Strategies for Care Coordination, Case Management, and LInkages for Young Children: A Scan of State Medicaid. Title V, and Part C Agencies
National Academy for State Health Policy, December 2009
- Medicaid Eligibility Enrollment and Retention Policies: Findings from a Survey of Juvenile Justice and Medicaid Policies Affecting Children in the Juvenile Justice System
National Academy for State Health Policy, December 2009
- Why Health Reform Will Bend the Cost Curve
The Commonwealth Fund, December 2009
- HealthReform.Gov
U.S. Department of Health and Human Servies
- Women's Health Coverage Fact Sheet
Kaiser Family Foundation, October 2009
- The Poor Pay More: Poverty's High Cost to Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, September 2009
- Secondhand Smoke Exopsure and Cardiovascular Effects: Making Sense of Evidence
Institute of Medicine, October 2009
- Emergency Departments Under Growing Pressures
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, August 2009
- Paying the Price: How Health Insurance Premiums are Eating Up Middle-Class Incomes - State Health Insurance Premium Trends and the Potential of National Reform
The Commonwealth Fund, August 2009
- Why Health Reform Must Counter the Rising Costs of Health Insurance Premiums
The Commonwealth Fund, August 2009
- Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help
The Commonwealth Fund, August 2009
- Health Care Reform: Check the Facts
Sojourners, August 2009
- Health Reform
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, August 2009
- How Might a Reform Plan be Financed
Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2009
- Key Questions about Changes for Medicaid and Low-Income Individuals; American's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2009
- Patients Under Pressure: Profiles of How Families Affected by Cancer Are Faring in the Recession
Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2009
- Side-by-Side Comparison of Major Health Care Reform Proposals
Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2009
- Health and Medicaid - Weathering the Recession
New England Journal of Medicine, March 2009
- Economic Stimulus Package and NonProfit Resources
Nonprofit Connect, March 2009
- Povery Rates Based on Household Incomes,
StateHealthFacts.Org, 2007
- Health Care Costs - A Primer: Key Information on Health Care Costs and Their Impact
Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2009
- Americans at Risk: One in Three Uninsured
Families USA, March 2009
- Unemployed and Uninsured in America
Families USA, February 2009
- Challenges of Providing Health Coverage for Children and Parents in a Recession: A 50 State Update on Eligibility Rules, Enrollment and Renewal Procedures, and Cost-Sharing Practices in Medicaid and SCHIP in 2009
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, January 2009
- Protecting Unemployed Workers’ Health Coverage: What States Can Do
Families USA, January 2009
- Yes We Can….Cover More than 4 Million Uninsured Children
Families USA, January 2009
- Geography is Destiny: Difference in Heath Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries in the United States and California, California Healthcare Foundation, November 2008
- The Decline in the Uninsured in 2007: Why Did it Happen and Can it Last?
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, October 2008
- Improving Child Health Care Through Federal Policy: An Emerging Opportunity
The Commonwealth Fund, October 2008
- A Burden No Child Should Bear: How the Health Coverage System is Failing Latino Children
A report from the National Council of La Raza, 2008
- Building Blocks for Reform: Achieving Universal Coverage with Private and Public Group Health Insurance
The Commonwealth Fund, May 2008
- Overview of U.S. Health Coverage
Cover Missouri, 2008
- IMPROVING CHILDREN'S HEALTH: A Chartbook about the Roles of Medicaid and SCHIP
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, January 2007
- Consequences of the Lack of Health Insurance on Health and Earnings
Missouri Foundation for Health, 2006
- High-Deductible Health Plans with Health Savings Accounts: Emerging Evidence and Outstanding Issues
Missouri Foundation for Health, 2006