This fact sheet provides an overview of dental care access and coverage for low-income children.

Three new reports about dental health coverage and access for the nation's low-income population were released by the Foundation's Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured at a Capitol Hill briefing examining these issues.

This brief finds that both dental coverage and access to care are limited for low-income adults and that even low-income adults with dental coverage are not getting sufficient levels of needed dental care.

This report is a summary of a discussion with oral health experts and their recommendations for state policies related to children’s access to oral health care.

A study published in Health Affairs indicated that as the number of working-age adults who have major chronic conditions grew 25 percent between 1997 and 2006, those without health coverage in this group experienced substantial erosion in access to health care.

With the problem of the uninsured continuing to grow, states have taken the lead in developing proposals to reform of their health care systems with the goal of significantly increasing the number of people with health coverage.  An interactive map and related summaries of plans track which states have enacted or are planning comprehensive initiatives to cover their uninsured population.

This brief examines health coverage for young adults, as well as their health status, access to care, and the financial burdens they encounter when paying for care. It also provides an overview of public and private approaches to expand health coverage for young adults.

This fact sheet provides an overview of Indiana's new Medicaid waiver program, the Healthy Indiana Plan, which is the first that allows a state to use Medicaid funds to provide a benefit package modeled after a high-deductible plan and health savings account to previously uninsured adults.  This piece examines key components of the plan and identifies key issues to consider.  

This brief examines six state premium assistance programs (in Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Oregon, Utah, and Virginia) that allow families to choose to receive a subsidy to apply to the purchase of private coverage rather than to receive direct Medicaid or SCHIP coverage.

This chartbook has been reformatted as a web-based information resource including charts and tables to provide a more comprehensive profile of the uninsured population and health insurance coverage more generally.