Government and health funding by the Kaiser Family Foundation

• Published in: Health Affairs Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 226 - 227
• Main Authors: Prina, L L, White, J H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., Project HOPE 1992
• Subjects: Case studies; Financing, Organized; Forecasting; Foundations; Funding; Government programs; Health care; Health Policy; Health Services Research - organization & administration; Managed Care Programs; Medicaid; Medicaid - trends; Medicare; Public sector; Reforms; Research Support as Topic; United States; United States; United States > US
• ISSN: 0278-2715; 1544-5208
• DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.11.4.226

In 1991, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation launched its Government and Health program, under the direction of vice-president Dennis Beatrice. The program seeks to push the US health system reform debate forward. Priorities of the program include helping to establish new directions in public-sector programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare; to strengthen the role of the states in providing effective and efficient health care; and to help develop minority health leadership in the public sector. Foundation funding under the Government and Health program and other Kaiser grants aimed directly at government total nearly $20 million since 1991. Projects begun under the Kaiser Government and Health program include: 1. the National Task Force on Medicaid Managed Care, 2. Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid, and 3. Center for Vulnerable Populations.