Policy Research

As Consumer Voices for Coverage began implementation, an assessment of policy-makers’ views was conducted between July and October 2008. Mathematica Policy Research conducted baseline interviews with key policy-makers in each of the 12 CVC states.

RWJF President & CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey cites new 46.3 million figure by Census Bureau in call for Congressional action.

This issue brief details the different ways in which federal surveys, including the Census, identify the number of people uninsured.

For too many Americans, the health care status quo is a ‘mess,’ write RWJF Chairman Thomas H. Kean and President Risa Lavizzo-Mourey. But they argue that “compromise and consensus" on reform "are not only possible, but also achievable.”

According to this brief, almost 75 percent of physicians were accepting all or most new Medicare patients, the vast majority of physicians contracted with managed care plans, and slightly fewer than six in 10 physicians provided charity care in 2008.

A group of scholars and policymakers suggests four pillars of a strategy to reduce health-care costs and improve quality of care.

In a four-part series released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, authors Lisa Dubay and Allison Cook calculate how many uninsured people could gain coverage through a health reform scenario that draws on proposals being discussed on Capitol Hill.
 

A new report evaluating the program shows that despite widespread support for the goals of the program, Mountain Health Choices has yet to realize its potential.

Health Affairs and RWJF explore the debate over advance-care planning, controlling Medicare spending and the government’s role in health care.