VISIT STATE HEALTH COMPARE
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National Health Care Reform: The Proposals and the Politics
Presentation by Elizabeth Lukanen at the "Many Faces of Community Health" conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 22 2009.
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New Update on National Health Reform: A Moving Target
Presentation by Lynn Blewett to Mount Zion Temple and Jewish Community Action members in St. Paul, MN, October 11 2009.
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State of Reform: Evaluating State Efforts to Improve Access to Health Care
SHARE grantees are currently in the process of releasing preliminary findings from their evaluations of state-level reform strategies. This brief, titled "State of Reform," provides an overview and synthesis of preliminary findings and significant lessons learned so far. These lessons involve public programs in particular and address the issues of eligibility and enrollment simplification, affordability, crowd-out, and three-share administrative requirements. October 2009.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index - Results for June 2009
This report provides results for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index (RWJF Index) for June 2009. The RWJF index is a monthly snapshot of how adults in the United States perceive their financial access to health care.
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Disparities and Barriers to Utilization among Minnesota Health Care Program Enrollees
This report presents findings from a statewide survey of 4,626 Minnesota Health Care Program (MHCP) enrollees conducted either by mail or by telephone between July and December 2008. This survey was funded by the Minnesota Department of Human Services and had four major goals. The first was to identify and describe barriers to, and experiences with, health care among adults and children who receive health insurance through Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP). A second goal was to identify and describe similarities and differences in the use of health services, as well as factors that discourage the use of services among specific race/ethnic groups including African Americans (US born), Native American, Hispanic/Latino, Somali, Hmong, and European Americans. A third goal was to identify changes in utilization of care and the types of barriers people experienced between 2003 and 2008. (A similar study was undertaken in 2003.) The final goal was to develop recommendations based on the results of the survey with community input for improving the delivery of health care services to MHCP enrollees and reducing disparities in access and quality. June 2009.
