Library of Publications

Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in March 2010, the health care industry has produced a voluminous amount of information across a myriad of topics. The selection of publications fall within the National Health Care for the Homeless Council’s priority areas while being helpful and serving as recommended reading (and source documentation).

General

• JAMA: Graphic explaining Medicaid Expansion | March 2013
• Kaiser: A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act Decision | July 2012
• Kaiser: Massachusetts Health Care Reform: Six Years Later | May 2012
• Counsel of State Governments: FAQ: Implications of Health Reform on Justice-Involved Populations | March 2011
• Kaiser: Animated Video: “Health Reform Hits Main Street” | Fall 2010
• How the ACA Is Funded and Helps the Deficit | May 2010
• Kaiser Chart: How People Get Coverage Under the ACA

Medicaid

• JAMA: Graphic Explaining Medicaid Expansion | March 2013
• Kaiser: Where Are States Today? Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility Levels for Children and Non-Disabled Adults | March 2013
• Urban Institute/RWJF: Progress in Implementing Selected Medicaid Provisions of the ACA: A 10-State Analysis | November 2012
• Kaiser: The Cost and Coverage Implications of the ACA Medicaid Expansion: National and State-by-State Analysis | November 2012
• Families USA Fact Sheet: Required and Optional Medicaid Eligibility Changes for 2014 | November 2012
• Kaiser: The Role of Medicaid for Adults with Chronic Illnesses | November 2012
• Kaiser: The Role of Medicaid for People with Behavioral Health Conditions | November 2012
• Kaiser Chart: Medicaid: It’s Role Today and under the ACA | August 2012
• Inquiry: Variation in Medicaid Eligibility and Participation among Adults: Implications for the Affordable Care Act | Fall 2012
• Kaiser (together with NHCHC): Medicaid Coverage and Care for the Homeless Population: Key Lessons to Consider for the 2014 Medicaid Expansion | September 2012
• NHeLP: 50 Reasons Medicaid Expansion Is Good for Your State | August 2012
• Urban Institute: Opting out of the Medicaid Expansion under the ACA | July 2012
• New England Journal of Medicine: Mortality and Access to Care among Adults after State Medicaid Expansions | July 2012
• Kaiser: How Is the ACA Leading to Changes in Medicaid Today? State Adoption of Five New Options | May 2012
• Kaiser: Performing Under Pressure: Annual Findings of a 50-State Survey of Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost-Sharing Policies in Medicaid and CHIP | January 2012
• Kaiser: Medicaid’s Role for Women across the Lifespan: Current Issues and the Impact of the ACA | January 2012
• Urban Institute: What Directions for Public Health under the ACA? | November 2011
• Kaiser: Medicaid Eligibility, Enrollment Simplification, and Coordination under the ACA | October 2011
• Kaiser: Connecting Eligible Immigrant Families to Health Coverage and Care: Key Lessons from Outreach and Enrollment Workers | October 2011
• New England Journal of Medicine: The Effects of Medicaid Coverage—Learning from the Oregon Experiment | August 2011
• NCSL: Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act | June 2011
• Kaiser: Explaining Health Reform: The New Rules for Determining Income under Medicaid in 2014 | June 2011
• Kaiser: Ensuring Access to Care in Medicaid under Health Reform | May 2011
• Kaiser: Physician Willingness and Resources to Serve More Medicaid Patients: Perspectives from Primary Care Physicians | April 2011
• Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC): Report to Congress | March 2011
• Urban Institute and RWJF: Health Reform across the States: Increased Insurance Coverage and Federal Spending on the Exchanges and Medicaid | March 2011
• Health Affairs: How Changes in Eligibility May Move Millions Back and Forth between Medicaid and Insurance Exchanges | February 2011
• Kaiser: State Medicaid Agencies Prepare for Health Care Reform while Continuing to Face Challenges from the Recession | August 2010
• Kaiser: Expanding Medicaid to Low-Income Childless Adults under Health Reform | July 2010
• Kaiser: Medicaid Coverage and Spending in Health Reform | May 2010

Enrollment

• Enroll America Fact Sheet: How Can Consumers Get Help Enrolling in Health Coverage? | March 2013
• Enroll America: Best Practices in Outreach and Enrollment for Health Centers | September 2012
• Kaiser: Key Issues to Consider for Outreach and Enrollment Efforts under Health Reform | February 2012
• Families USA: Express Lane Eligibility: Early State Experiences and Lessons for Health Reform | January 2011
• Families USA: Enrollment Policy Provisions in the ACA | December 2010

Health Centers

• Kaiser: Community Health Centers in an Era of Health Reform: An Overview and Key Challenges to Health Center Growth | March 2013
• Kaiser: Profiles of Medicaid Outreach and Enrollment Strategies: One on One Assistance through Community Health Centers in Utah | March 2013
• Kaiser: Medicaid and Community Health Centers: The Relationship between Coverage for Adults and Primary Care Capacity in Medically Underserved Communities | March 2012
• Kaiser: Community Health Centers: The Challenge of Growing to Meet the Need for Primary Care in Medically Underserved Communities | March 2012
• Kaiser: Community Health Centers: Opportunities and Challenges of Health Reform | August 2010
• Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation: Strengthening Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: The Expansion of Community Health Centers through Health Reform | June 2010
• Commonwealth Fund: Enhancing the Capacity of Community Health Centers to Achieve High Performance | May 2010
• New England Journal of Medicine: Health Care Reform and Primary Care—The Growing Importance of the Community Health Center | April 2010

Uninsured

• Urban Institute: Uninsured Veterans and Their Family Members: State and National Estimates of Expanded Medicaid Eligibility under the ACA | March 2013
• Kaiser: The Uninsured: A Primer, Key Facts about Americans without Health Insurance | October 2012
• Urban Institute: Opting Out of Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: How Many Uninsured Adults Would Not Be Eligible for Medicaid? | July 2012
• Urban Institute: Making the Medicaid Expansion an ACA Option: How Many Low Income Americans Could Remain Uninsured? | June 2012
• Kaiser: The Uninsured, A Primer: Key Facts about Americans without Health Insurance | October 2011
• RWJF: Who Will Be Uninsured after Health Insurance Reform? | March 2011

Essential Health Benefits

• CMS: Essential Health Benefits in the Medicaid Program | November 2012
• Families USA: Designing the Essential Health Benefits for Your State, An Advocate’s Guide | July 2012
• HHS: Essential Health Benefits FAQ #2 | February 2012
• HHS: Essential Health Benefits FAQ #1 | December 2011
• Institute of Medicine: Essential Health Benefits, Balancing Coverage, and Cost | October 2011

Legal Challenges

• ACA Amicus Brief on Human Rights | February 2012

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