This fact sheet provides an overview of the Medicaid program, the populations that it serves and the services that it covers.

This eighth annual 50-state survey on Medicaid and state budget actions finds enrollment began to rise in fiscal year 2008 with states expecting even larger increases for fiscal year 2009.  With the increased enrollment, Medicaid spending is also rising more rapidly than in the recent past.

“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.

This report describes 10 operating individual budget model programs that serve older persons, identifies four areas of program design that are of particular importance to the success of the individual budget model, and discusses their implications.

An interactive database based on 50-state survey data that provides easy access to information provided by each state's Medicaid program.

This interactive timeline provides information about policy developments over the course of the last 40 years of the Medicaid program and will be updated with new developments as they occur.

A project sponsored by The Kaiser Family Foundation has resulted in a new source of data that will enhance research on the Medi-Cal program, including the impact of Medi-Cal managed care. The project linked 2 datasets: the Patient Discharge Dataset containing hospital ...

A national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds most women report generally positive experiences with the health care system, but a sizable share faced problems.  A significant minority of nonelderly women reported delaying or going without care in the past ...

The debate over President Clinton's national health care reform plan put health care policy at the forefront of the national agenda in 1993 and 1994. After the end of that debate, it remained to be seen whether or not health policy would hold the media's and the public ...

The Women's Health Data Book: A Profile of Women's Health in the United States, offers the latest data and trends on the wide range of health issues that affect women across their life spans.  Published by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Jacobs Institute of ...