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Building American Support for Global Health Spending

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: International Development, Global Fund, Who, International Aid Spending, Survey, Global Health, USA, US, Health Care, International Aid, Kaiser Family Foundation, Healthcare, Health Spending, Kff, Impact News

The reality of foreign aid spending is vastly different than its perception. Despite representing a small sliver of the federal budget, foreign aid does a lot of good.

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Putting Our Premiums Into Medical Care, Not Profits

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Congress, Senate, Jay Rockefeller, Obamacare, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Kaiser Family Foundation, Medical-Loss Ratio, Mlr, Health Care Spending, 112th Congress, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Politics News

Chances are that many of the people eligible for an insurance rebate are among those demanding that ObamaCare be repealed or struck down by the Supreme Court. Getting a check in the mail because of ObamaCare might make some of them reconsider.

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Should We "Means Test" Your Auto Insurance? Then Why Do It for Social Security?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Kaiser Family Foundation, Social Security, Means Testing, Social Security Cuts, Social Security Reform, Retirement, Politics News

Cuts to Social Security -- whether they're in the form of means-testing or the Ryan/Romney proposals to raise the eligibility age and reduce cost-of-living benefits -- will hurt most seniors. They'll cause the most pain to elderly and disabled women and minorities.

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Yep, Birth Control Is Still Popular

Margie Omero | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Msnbc, Pollster Analysis, Rush Limbaugh, Women's Issues, Wall Street Journal, Kaiser Family Foundation, Women's Health and Rights, GOP War on Women, War on Women, Cnn, Contraception, Birth Control, Quinnipiac, Republicans, Pollster, Politics News, Women's Health, Politics News

Birth control coverage may be controversial in Washington, but it's not controversial with voters overall. Subsequent polling continues to show this to be true.

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Supreme Court Leaves Clues How It Will Decide Health Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 02.03.2012

WASHINGTON -- A Kaiser Family Foundation poll published as the Supreme Court went into mid-term recess last week reveals that nearly 60 percent of Ame...

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Survey Reveals The State Of 'Black Women In America'

Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Black Women, Washington Post, Black in America, Kaiser Family Foundation, Black History Month, Black Voices News

On the eve of President Obama's State of the Union address, The Washington Post is exploring the state of black women in America. The paper launch...

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Very Few Of The Long-Term Unemployed Receiving Benefits

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Npr, Video, Labor Market, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Unemployment, Long-Term Unemployment, Urban Institute, Jobs, Unemployment Benefits, Jobless, Congressional Budget Office, Center for American Progress, Kaiser Family Foundation, Business News

As the nation faces a labor crisis that refuses to let up, 7 million Americans currently receiving unemployment benefits may be running out of time to...

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Holiday Gifts From Health Reform

Linda Bergthold | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: US Department of Health and Human Services, President Obama Health Care, Affordable Care Act, Health-Insurance-Resource-Center, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medical Loss Ratio, Health Reform, Kaiser Family Foundation, Politics News

A recent poll found that the American public still doesn't know what is in the health reform law and what is not. Here's the list of health reform "gifts" available this year.

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Using PR Playbook to Keep Us in the Dark About Health Insurance Coverage

Wendell Potter | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Grocery Manufacturers Association, Obamacare, Ahip, Health Care Reform, Health Care, America's Health Insurance Plans, Wall Street Journal, Kaiser Family Foundation, Politics News

If you wonder why the health insurance industry has to set up front groups and secretly funnel cash to industry-funded coalitions to influence public policy, take a look at the most recent results of the Kaiser Family Foundation's monthly Health Tracking Poll.

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Solyndra!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Solar Energy Projects, Solar Energy, Department of Energy, Congress and Solyndra, Obama and Solyndra, Kaiser Family Foundation, Solyndra, Obama Administration, Green News

Call it an ode to not-so-clean energy. Or call it a poetry slam. ...

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Medicare's Drug Coverage Gap Shrinks

AP | By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Medicare Drug Coverage, Kaiser, Medicare, Office of the Actuary, Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, Kaiser Family Foundation, Fifty News

WASHINGTON -- Medicare's prescription coverage gap is getting noticeably smaller and easier to manage this year for millions of older and disabled peo...

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Solyndra: An Ode to Not-So-Clean Energy

Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Steven Chu, Solyndra Bankruptcy, Solyndra, Department of Energy, Barack Obama and Solyndra, Solar Power, Kaiser Family Foundation, Obama Administration, Comedy News

So it's nice to be inventive when you gaze into the sky. When those warming rays inspire you, give the power cell a try. Just make sure you're well connected if you want your piece of pie. So big... so fast... Solyndra!

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Mindful Awareness Practices in Private Schools

Ramaa Reddy Raghavan | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Mindfulness Meditation, Education, Mindfulness, Kaiser Family Foundation, Private Schools, Education News

In the fall of 2010 Trinity School in Manhattan presented its theme for the week's lower school chapel.

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Losing the PR War -- Again

Wendell Potter | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Investors-Business-Daily, Commonwealth Fund, Obamacare, Death Panels, Health Care Reform, Newt Gingrich, Health Care, Kaiser Family Foundation, Politics News

Lies about the reform law have also gone viral on the Internet. That's not new, but it appears from emails friends and acquaintances forward to me that the dissemination of bogus information has picked up.

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Those Rapacious Health Insurers Raise Premiums 9% This Year for Job-Based Health Insurance

Pearl Korn | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Insurance Premiums, McClatchy Newspapers, Unemployment, Veterans Administration, Medicare Part D, Economy, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer, Gop, Affordable Care Act, New York Times, Medicare, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Recession, Kaiser Family Foundation, Healthcare, Politics News

Job-based healthcare plans now cost a whopping $15,000 per year for a family, with workers picking up $4,129 of that amount, meaning that workers' share of healthcare costs has risen a stunning 131% in 10 years.

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The Affordable Care Act? What the Heck Is That?

Wendell Potter | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, Kaiser Family Foundation, Barack Obama, Politics News

As I have traveled across the country in recent weeks, speaking to a wide range of audiences, one thing has become abundantly clear: the provisions of the Affordable Care Act already in effect are anything but abundantly clear to people.

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Why Young Latinos Should Care About Medicare

Jeff Cruz | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: "The High Cost to Latinos of Raising the Medicare Age?, Young Latinos, Medicare for Latinos, Medicare, Kaiser Family Foundation, Young People Medicare, Latino Voices News

Latinos are a young population, and it's very easy for young people to label issues like Social Security, pensions and Medicare as seniors' issues and ignore them. But here's why they shouldn't.

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Poll: Americans Still Unsold On Health Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Medicare Polls, Pollster Analysis, Medicare, Health Reform, Kaiser Family Foundation, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- More than a year after the passage of landmark health reform legislation, Americans remain divided on the law and are mostly skeptical o...

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Medicaid: A Lifeline Under Attack

Rishi Manchanda | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Deficit, Prevention, Budget, Public Health, Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Health Reform, Medicine, Kaiser Family Foundation, Patient-Centered-Medical-Homes, Medicaid Cuts, Democracy, Rx Democracy, Politics News

Instead of trying to improve health care and help those in need, some are debating ways to take the lifeline of Medicaid away from seniors, the disabled, low-income adults and children. That's a prescription for disaster.

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Health Insurers Have Had Their Chance

Wendell Potter | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Peter Shumlin, Small Business, Obamacare, Health Insurers, Health Care Reform, Vermont, Affordable Care Act, Cigna, Single Payer, Michigan, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Kaiser Family Foundation, Barack Obama, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Business News

Private insurers have had their chance to control costs and expand access and have failed miserably. It is time, more and more people believe, to replace them with a single payer: the government.

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Americans Are Unsure Of The GOP Medicare Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: House Budget Vote, Politics News, House Vote Paul Ryan, Pollster Analysis, Spending Cuts, Elections 2012, House Spending Cuts, Paul Ryan Spending Cuts, Paul Ryan, Kaiser Family Foundation, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News

The latest tracking poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds strong opposition to the notion of Medicare cuts or premium increases. But the survey r...

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Ryan's Medicare Plan Would Be a Windfall for Insurance Companies

Wendell Potter | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Jacob Hacker, Edward Hanway, Cigna, Medicare, Aetna, Kaiser Family Foundation, Paul Ryan, Politics News

Paul Ryan's "blueprint" is one that will take America back to the pre-1965 days when senior citizens were losing their homes and their farms to pay for medical care. And all the while, insurance companies will be raking it in.

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Why Parents Should Both Monitor And Empower Kids Using Social Media

Tina Barseghian | Posted 06.16.2011

Read More: Social Networking, Anti-Bullying Laws, Eric Sheninger, Social Networking and Kids, Facebook Suicide, Kids and Social Media, Henry Jenkins, Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Tyler Clementi, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kaiser Family Foundation, Social Media and Kids, Kids and Facebook, Harry Potter Alliance, Electric Cars, Education News

With guidance and support -- and with parents to set examples of what they think is appropriate -- kids can learn their place and their responsibility as part of a worldwide online community.

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One Year Later: Health Care Reform a Law Worth Keeping

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Preexisting Condition, Health Care Reform, Rescission, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Copayment, Kaiser Family Foundation, Barack Obama, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Mlr, Politics News

The heated rhetoric we've been exposed to since the health care reform debate began has obscured the harsh realities of a system that failed to meet the needs of millions of Americans. Last year's reform law is a start to fixing that.

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Health Reform Is Not Dead

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Reform, Individual Mandate, 1099-Repeal, Medicaid, Medicare, Kaiser Family Foundation, Politics News

If you have not yet seen the results in your own health care, that doesn't mean that results are not coming. Hospitals are busy figuring out how to deliver better quality care at lower cost.

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