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Topic Pages:
Health insurance and uninsured
On this page:
Tools
- Insure Kids Now!
Supplies information on free and low-cost health insurance programs for children including Medicaid and CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program).
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
- Hill-Burton Free and Reduced Cost Health Care
Information on free or below cost health care available to people who meet poverty guidelines from certain health care facilities that received federal funds for construction or renovation under the Hill-Burton program.
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
- Covering Kids & Families Communications Action Center
Tools and training opportunities that organizations can use to promote low-cost and free health coverage to uninsured families.
Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- MedlinePlus: Health Insurance
Contains a list of resources including news, related issues, organizations, and statistics related to health insurance.
Sponsoring organization: National Library of Medicine
- The Uninsured: The Basics
Contains a list of resources for obtaining key data on the uninsured.
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Funding
- The Nathan Cummings Foundation Health Program Grants
Provides grants to improve health and well-being. Programs include arts and culture; the environment; health; interprogram initiatives for social and economic justice; and the Jewish life and values/contemplative practice programs.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Publications
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Access to Care for the Uninsured: An Update
Information from the Kaiser 2003 Health Insurance Survey on health care access for the uninsured. Includes statistics on barriers to health care, consequences of lack of health care, and more.
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Date: 09 / 2003
Format: PDF
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Health Care in Rural America
Discusses issues related to health insurance coverage and health care costs of rural people. Includes information on the rural uninsured and undersinsured and discusses possible solutions to provide health insurance coverage to the rural uninsured and underinsured.
Sponsoring organization: Center for Rural Affairs
Date: 10 / 2004
Format: PDF
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Health Insurance Access in Rural America
Policy brief providing an overview of health insurance access in rural areas, with statistics comparing urban to rural health insurance coverage. Includes NRHA recommendations to address the challenges of rural health insurance access.
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
Date: 03 / 2004
Format: PDF
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Health Insurance Coverage in Rural America: Chartbook
Information on rural-urban differences in health insurance coverage and differences in socio-economic and employment characteristics of those living in rural versus urban counties.
Author(s): Erika C. Ziller, Andrew F. Coburn, Stephenie L. Loux, Catherine Hoffman, Timothy D. McBride
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Date: 09 / 2003
Format: PDF
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Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America (Full Report)
Covers some of the economic and social losses to the country of maintaining so many people without health insurance.
Sponsoring organization: Institute of Medicine
Date: 06 / 2003
Format: PDF
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Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America (Report Brief)
Covers economic and social losses to the country of maintaining so many people without health insurance. Also explores the potential economic and societal benefits that could be realized if everyone had health insurance on a continuous basis.
Sponsoring organization: Institute of Medicine
Date: 06 / 2003
Format: PDF
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Hurricane Katrina: Health Impacts in Louisiana and the Federal Response to the Loss of Health Coverage
Discusses Hurricane Katrina's impact on health and human services.
Author(s): Marsha Lillie-Blanton
Date: 02 / 2006
Format: PDF
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Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008
Provides the latest income, poverty, and health insurance data from the Current Population Survey.
Author(s): Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, Jessica C. Smith
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
Date: 09 / 2009
Format: PDF
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Louisiana’s Proposed Section 1115 Medicaid Demonstration Project: Estimating the Numbers of Uninsured and Projected Medicaid Costs
Analyzes the composition and medical costs of the uninsured in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.
Author(s): Stephen Zuckerman, Jack Hadley
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Date: 07 / 2007
Format: PDF
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Mississippi's Uninsured
Fact sheet describing the medically uninsured population in Mississippi.
Author(s): H. Costello
Sponsoring organization: Mississippi Health Policy Research Center
Date: 04 / 2004
Format: PDF
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Report on the Health Care Safety Net in Missouri
Monitors the health care safety net in Missouri by updating the existing indicators and developing new indicators to capture its demand, support, structure, and environment. Provides the baseline information to help devise an early warning system for the safety net to stay intact.
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Foundation for Health
Date: 08 / 2005
Format: PDF
Journals
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Journal of Rural Health
Offers research of projects to improve rural health, statistics, and mathematical models. Provides summaries of recently published rural health research. Provides links to author, subject and abstract indexes.
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
Organizations
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Center for Health Care Strategies
Works to promote high quality health care services for low-income populations and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
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Community Voices: HealthCare for the Underserved
Works to make health care available to all, through work at eight sites throughout the country. Helps ensure the survival of safety-net providers and strengthens community support services.
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Families USA
Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
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Health Care for the Homeless Information Resource Center
Offers an overview of homelessness in the U.S. and a description of the federal Health Care Homeless (HCH) Program's response to the problem, including statistics on annual funding and demographic characteristics of persons served by HCH projects.
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Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Provides information and analysis on health care coverage and access for the low-income population, with a special focus on Medicaid's role and coverage of the uninsured.
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Louisiana Assembly on School-Based Healthcare
Promotes the health and academic success of Louisiana students and the economic development of communities by increasing access to quality healthcare and support services provided by school health centers.
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National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
Encourages collaborations between schools and communities to ensure that all children and adolescents have access to health care.
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State Health Access Data Assistance Center
Helps states monitor rates of health insurance coverage and understand factors associated with uninsurance. Provides policy analysis and technical assistance to states that are conducting their own health insurance surveys and/or using data from national surveys.
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