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Please take a look at the Alliance for Health Reform’s latest toolkit on Medicaid.

You can download by clicking here.

Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this toolkit feature dozens of links to useful websites and articles about Medicaid. You will also find key facts, a brief background section, story ideas for reporters, lists of selected experts and websites, and a glossary.

These resources are designed for reporters covering health issues during Campaign 2008, but will be useful for congressional staff, researchers, health policy students and many others as well. This toolkit will help you understand who the Medicaid program covers, how it is financed, how it differs from Medicare, how states can alter Medicaid through federal waivers, and what the future holds for the program.

Here is the table of contents for “A Reporter’s Toolkit: Medicaid” --

• Key Facts
• Background
• Basics: Statistics, Eligibility, Costs
• Federal and State Medicaid Financing
• Medicaid Waivers
• Reforms and Barriers to Enrollment – Federal Level
• Reforms and Barriers to Enrollment – State Level
• Medicaid & Children’s Health
• Medicare/Medicaid Dual Eligibility
• Medicaid & Managed Care
• Medicaid & Long-Term Care
• Medicaid & Disparities in Care
• Story Ideas
• Selected Experts
• Selected Websites
• Medicaid Glossary

This is the second in a series of five toolkits for reporters supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Coming soon will be kits on children's health coverage, health care costs and health information technology. You can download our previous toolkit on the uninsured by clicking here or by going to www.allhealth.org/publications/Uninsured/uninsured_toolkit_74.asp

We welcome your comments and ideas for improvements. Please email to info@allhealth.org

Ed Howard
Executive Vice President

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The Alliance for Health Reform is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit health policy education group. We are committed to helping journalists, elected officials and other shapers of public opinion understand the roots of the nation's health care problems and the trade-offs posed by various proposals for change. Our aim is quality, affordable health coverage for all in the U.S., although we do not lobby or take positions on legislation. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) is our Founder and Honorary Chairman; Sen. Susan Collins (R -ME.) is our Honorary Co-Chairman.