April 17, 2007
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Program Result Report
Cover the Uninsured Week, March 10-16, 2003, focused national media attention on the coverage problem and featured hundreds of town meetings, health fairs and other public events in communities across the nation.
April 4, 2007
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Program Result Report
Communities in Charge is a program to help broad-based community coalitions design and establish sustainable health care delivery systems.
April 6, 2007
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Program Result Report
In 2001, MaineHealth, a nonprofit health system serving southern and central Maine, established CarePartners, a health plan using a network of providers offering volunteer care to the uninsured.
April 17, 2007
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Program Result Report
This sidebar describes reports on the individual and community impacts of the uninsured, including an Institute of Medicine report on the impact of the uninsured population on community health services funded by RWJF and released just before Cover the Uninsured Week.
April 17, 2007
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Program Result Report
A major reason the health insurance coverage problem has persisted is that the uninsured are not a cohesive voting group with organized political clout, according to Robert Blendon, ScD, professor of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
April 17, 2007
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Program Result Report
This sidebar describes the factors in measuring coverage and the ways different federal agencies measure the uninsured population.
January 1, 2006
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Book
Forty-five million Americans, many of them minorities or poor people, lack insurance coverage for basic health care. Research shows that people without health insurance receive less medical care and are in poorer health than insured people. This art ...
September 1, 2006
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Toolkit
Related websites Urgent Matters Web site The purpose of ED Connections is to link vulnerable patients who repeatedly use the emergency department (ED) for medical care with community services that can help better address their health care needs. Onc ...
March 28, 2005
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Program Result Report
The Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition led a broader statewide coalition in an effort to increase the number of eligible children in the state enrolled in government-funded health insurance programs.
March 28, 2005
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Program Result Report
The State of Oregon Department of Human Resources, Health Division worked with other statewide organizations through a coalition to increase the number of eligible children in the state enrolled in government-funded health insurance coverage programs.