Alina Salganicoff
Kaiser Family Found
Menlo Park, CA, United States
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Loss of the ACA Could Greatly Erode Health Coverage and Benefits for Women
This brief examines what the loss of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would mean for women's coverage and access to health care. → Read More
Exclusion of Abortion Coverage from Employer-Sponsored Health Plans
This issue brief presents data from the 2019 KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey on the share of covered workers who are employed by firms that have asked their insurer or third party administrator… → Read More
State Action to Limit Abortion Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This data note presents an interactive map that tracks which states have made declarations defining abortions as non-essential or elective health procedures and effectively blocking the provision o… → Read More
Coronavirus Puts a Spotlight on Paid Leave Policies
As the COVID-19 pandemic grows, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public health officials recommend that people who are sick should stay home. Benefits such as sick lea… → Read More
Proposed Changes to Title X: Implications for Women and Family Planning Providers
The Trump Administration has taken numerous steps to significantly alter the Title X program, the federal grant program that supports family planning services to low-income women. These actions wou… → Read More
State and Federal Contraceptive Coverage Requirements: Implications for Women and Employers
Before the ACA was passed, many states had enacted contraceptive equity laws that required plans to treat contraceptives in the same way they covered other services. In addition, since the ACA was … → Read More
Community Health Centers and Family Planning in an Era of Policy Uncertainty – Report – 9176
Introduction Community health centers play a major role in furnishing reproductive health care to women living in low-income and medically underserved communities. Along with independent freestandi… → Read More
New Regulations Broadening Employer Exemptions to Contraceptive Coverage: Impact on Women
This brief explains the contraceptive coverage rule under the ACA, the impact it has had on coverage, and how the new regulations issued by the Trump Administration have changed the contraceptive c… → Read More
Paid Family Leave and Sick Days in the U.S.: Findings from the 2016 Kaiser/HRET Employer Health Benefits Survey – Data Note – 8949-02
Introduction Workplace benefits are an important part of balancing work, family, and medical needs. So called “fringe benefits” such as paid family leave and sick days can help employees meet their… → Read More
Paid Family Leave and Sick Days in the U.S.: Findings from the 2016 Kaiser/HRET Employer Health Benefits Survey
This data note summarizes state and local policies on paid family leave and sick days and presents new data from the 2016 Kaiser/HRET Employer Health Benefits Survey on the share of firms that offe… → Read More
Financing Family Planning Services for Low-income Women: The Role of Public Programs
This brief reviews the role Medicaid, the Title X Family Planning Program, and Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act in financing care and enabling access to family planning services and add… → Read More
Financing Family Planning Services for Low-income Women: The Role of Public Programs
This brief reviews the role Medicaid, the Title X Family Planning Program, and Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act in financing care and enabling access to family planning services and add… → Read More
Financing Family Planning Services for Low-income Women: The Role of Public Programs
This brief reviews the role Medicaid, the Title X Family Planning Program, and Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act in financing care and enabling access to family planning services and add… → Read More
Ten Ways That the House American Health Care Act Could Affect Women
Women have much at stake as the nation debates the future of coverage in the United States. Because the Affordable Care Act (ACA) made fundamental changes to women’s health coverage and benefits, changes to the law and the regulations that stem from it would have a direct impact on millions of women with private insurance and Medicaid. On May 4, 2017, the House of Representatives passed the… → Read More
Medicaid Coverage of Pregnancy and Perinatal Benefits: Results from a State Survey
Overview Maternity care has emerged as a key issue in the current policy debates about the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid restructuring. While the inclusion of maternity care as an essential health benefit has been important to many women who gained private coverage because of the ACA coverage expansion, Medicaid has been the primary funding source for perinatal and… → Read More
Medicaid Family Planning Programs: Case Studies of Six States After ACA Implementation
In light of the coverage trends and other ACA-related changes, this paper describes the impact on women and their partners, as well as family planning providers, of the impact of family planning ex… → Read More
Medicaid Family Planning Programs: Case Studies of Six States After ACA Implementation
Overview The Affordable Care Act brought sweeping changes to the Medicaid program that have had profound implications for family planning coverage, services, and providers. In particular, in the 17 states with family planning programs that have expanded Medicaid, many women have moved from limited benefit family planning programs into full-scope Medicaid or Marketplace insurance and now have… → Read More
Medicaid Managed Care and the Provision of Family Planning Services
Overview Since the 1990’s, managed care has had an increasingly significant role in the delivery of health care services to Medicaid beneficiaries. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more individuals qualified for Medicaid than ever before, and the majority of those beneficiaries are enrolled in managed care arrangements. Regardless of the outcome of efforts to repeal or replace… → Read More
Ten Ways That Repealing and Replacing the Affordable Care Act Could Affect Women
Women have much at stake as the nation debates the future of coverage in the United States. Because the ACA made fundamental changes to women’s health coverage and benefits, changes to the law and the regulations that stem from it would have a direct impact on millions of women with private insurance and Medicaid. President Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress have forwarded numerous… → Read More
The Future of Contraceptive Coverage
This issue brief explains the Affordable Care Act's current contraceptive coverage rule, the impact it has had on women, and the state of contraceptive coverage if the rule is eliminated or modified. → Read More