The Kaiser Family Foundation has a number of resources that provide insight into the nation's health care challenges and various health reform proposals being considered at the national and state levels.

The economic downturn has strained family finances and led some Americans to cut back on medications and medical care. The Foundation has a number of resources that shed light on how Americans and states are faring and provide background on the uninsured, employer-sponsored health insurance costs, trends in states’ Medicaid enrollment and spending and prior efforts to support the Medicaid program during a slumping economy.

This brief examines findings about low-wage workers and health care based on a survey conducted this summer by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University to focus on the experiences and challenges facing the lowest paid members of the American workforce. 

Voters and Health Reform in the 2008 Presidential Election

Based on data from Kaiser's Second Post-Katrina Survey, this Survey Brief finds that New Orleans continues to have a sizeable population of low-income adults in 2008, and that these adults are more likely than other adults in the city to still be dealing with recovery from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and financial and health care challenges.  

This document contains the toplines from the October Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 poll.

Kaiser's final election 2008 tracking poll finds more people are reporting problems with health care bills, and paying for health care retains a solid hold on the public’s list of their top economic concerns. Nearly half of the public reports someone in their family skipping pills, postponing or cutting back on medical care they said they needed in the past year due to the cost of care.

This document contains the key findings from the October Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 poll.

An updated examination of consumers' views on health care quality information reveals major challenges remain in providing the public with comparative quality information and encouraging its use. The poll finds that three in 10 Americans say they have seen health care quality comparisons of health insurance plans, hospitals, or doctors in the past year.

The September Kaiser Health Tracking Poll:  Election 2008 finds that nation's economy tops the public's priority list and health care has crept up in importance as an election issue in recent months among a key voting group: political independents, who ranked it as highly as Democrats did.