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As one of the core programs of KFF, KFF Health News focuses on coverage of health care policy and politics. KFF Health News provides coverage of health policy issues and developments at the federal and state levels in the health care marketplace and health care delivery system. It was formerly known
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Under Greater Than HIV (formerly Greater Than AIDS) – a national public information response to the U.S. epidemic launched in 2009 – KFF works with a broad cross-section of public and private partners to increase knowledge, reduce stigma and promote actions to stem the
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Drew Altman directed "a complete overhaul of the Foundation's mission and operating style." Altman changed a "sleepy grant-making organization" (some $ 30 million a year interest on the $ 400 million endowment), into a leading voice and repository for facts and information on health-care issues,
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In 2020, KFF Health News reporters were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for exposing predatory bill collection by the University of Virginia Health System that relentlessly squeezed low-income patients – many into bankruptcy – forcing the
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organization focused on health policy. It conducts its own research, polling, journalism, and specialized public health information campaigns. Its website has been heralded for having the "most up-to-date and accurate information on health policy" and as a "must-read for healthcare devotees."
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When Kaiser died in 1967, his second wife, Alyce Chester, inherited half of his estate, and the other half went to the KFF. Ale sold all of her holdings, moved far away, and remarried. Mr. Kaiser's children received very little direct inheritance; but did receive authority to run the Kaiser
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KFF also works with major media and corporate partners, government agencies and health departments, national leadership and community organizations, and other partners to create large-scale public information campaigns on pressing health and social issues, mostly on HIV/AIDS.
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In 1977, ten years after Kaiser's death, the conglomerate of disparate Kaiser Industries organizations split apart. The Kaiser Family Foundation was initially a major owner of these shares: at the time of dissolution, the foundation owned 32 percent, according to
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KFF publishes analysis, polling and journalism about health-care issues, and states that much of its work especially concerns persons with low income or those who are otherwise especially vulnerable to health-care cost, such as the
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KFF is also well known for public opinion research, documenting the views and experiences of the public on health and related issues – often in partnership with major news organizations, such as
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with a series of animated videos explaining the health law and health insurance terms as well as a calculator for people to estimate what health insurance coverage would cost them.
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spread of HIV. While national in scope, Greater Than HIV focuses on communities most affected. Previous programs include Greater than Covid and Get Yourself Tested.
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remaking the organization by establishing new programs, recruiting staff, becoming an operating foundation and then later, a public charity.
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recipients. In addition to domestic U.S. health policy issues, KFF also conducts work on the U.S. role in global health policy.
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By 1985, the foundation no longer had an ownership stake in the Kaiser companies and is no longer associated with
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as Kaiser Health News (KHN), but was renamed in April 2023 to communicate its ownership by KFF.
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KFF formerly sponsored training and site visits for health care reporters.
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In early 2020 its analysis and polling focused heavily on the
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Industries businesses, and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Kaiser Health News
George Kaiser Family Foundation
Kaiser Foundation
Henry J. Kaiser
NGO
Public charity
Health care
health policy
San Francisco, California
www.kff.org
non-profit
San Francisco, California
Kaiser Permanente
foundation
non-partisan
uninsured
Medicaid
Medicare
COVID-19 pandemic
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
The Washington Post
The New York Times
Henry J. Kaiser
Oakland, California
Kaiser Permanente
Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park
Fortune Magazine
Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Industries

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