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Foundation Reactions To The 2016 Presidential Election: Round-Up
Take a gander at Health Affairs Blog on foundation recreations to the 2016 preseidential election. It is just a sampling and is not meant to be comprehensive.
Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
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CHCF Health Innovation Fund
The California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) supports the testing and evaluation of innovative approaches to improve health care. To help achieve this goal, CHCF has developed an investment fund to support health care technology and service companies with the potential to significantly improve quality of care, lower the total cost of care, or improve access to care for low-income Californians. View their website for investment criteria and strategy.
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ACA 411: Tracking Health Reform in California
How is the Affordable Care Act (ACA) changing insurance coverage, access to health care, and affordability in California? This interactive tool provides baseline and trend data for selected measures to help answer these questions. The data include uninsured rates, private and public coverage levels, insurance status, and Covered California enrollment; use of services and barriers to care; and consumer spending and premium sharing for employees, including low-wage, part-time, and temporary workers. Explore the data at California Health Care Foundation's website.
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California's Uninsured: As Coverage Grows, Millions Go Without
Since implementation of the ACA, California's uninsured rate has dropped by half. Still, nearly 3 million remain uninsured, and there could be big changes in coverage ahead with Donald Trump's election. Read more at California Health Care Foundation's Almanac.
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Five Million Californians Could Lose Coverage Under ACA Repeal: Data by Congressional District
Over five million Californians rely on the resources provided by the Affordable Care Act, either to get their coverage through the Medicaid (Medi-Cal) expansion, or to get financial assistance to afford and buy a private health plan through Covered California. Check out Health Access California's fact sheet on the millions of Californians who can lose coverage, organized by congressional district.
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2016 YEAR IN REVIEW: Major Progress on Surprise Medical Bills, Transparency, Unfair Out-of-Pocket Costs, & Health4All
Check out Health Access California's victories of 2016, including Health4All, advancing legislation for patients’ rights and transparency against unfair costs, and pursuing administrative advocacy to keep insurers accountable.
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Proposals to Replace the Affordable Care Act
A summary that describes Rep. Tom Price’s Empowering Patients First Act. Other leading comprehensive proposals, put forth by the President-elect and Members of Congress, to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be added in coming weeks. Some proposals have been formally introduced as legislation, others in White Paper form, with varying levels of detail specified. Summaries will be regularly updated to reflect changes in the proposals and to incorporate major new proposals as they are announced. Review the proposal at the Henry J. Kasier Family Foundation.
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NCG's 2016 Annual (Not)-Report
We enter this new landscape showing steady growth in every area. The accomplishments in NCG's 2016 Annual (Not)-Report depict an organization ready to face the challenges ahead. Our collective impact is far greater than if we were going it alone. We are Together for Good.
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Resilient Oakland Playbook
The Resilient Oakland playbook is a strategy document developed to help our City tackle systemic and structural challenges. The playbook outlines ways we can work together to help our community can stay rooted, ensure equitable access to quality education and develop good jobs, stable housing, public safety and vibrant streets.
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Resilient San Francisco: Stronger Today, Stronger Tomorrow
RESILIENT-SF is a strategy that seeks to tap into our city’s trademark tenacity by laying out our most pressing challenges and demanding that City government partner with the community to make bold and lasting progress on these challenges. When we think about San Francisco, we think of a city of unwavering strength, a city that is prepared to not only respond but to recover, and a San Francisco of strong and unified neighborhoods, ready to continue reimagining, and striving for the strong and resilient San Francisco of tomorrow.
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