Funding Opportunities

Health Policy Mini Grants

The health policy mini-grant program is designed to provide a responsive funding stream with an easy application process and stimulate and support health advocacy work that leads to positive policy change.

RFA Available: March 1, 2012 | View RFA
Application Deadline: October 31, 2012

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Research & Publications

The Health Policy area provides research and data on health system issues for Missouri policymakers, advocates, and the general public. With fact-based, non-partisan research, the MFH Health Policy area works to inform long-term positive health system change.

View Health Policy publications in any of the following categories:

Overview of Coverage and the Uninsured

Expanding Coverage to the Uninsured

Medicaid and SCHIP

Health Disparities

Surveys

Health Care Delivery and Payment Reform

Advocacy Trainings

MFH works to build the capacity of Missouri nonprofits to provide a voice for the uninsured, underinsured, and underserved in the policymaking process. Learn more about training opportunities here.

Links & Resources

The MFH Resource Directory contains links and resources to helpful information in more than 30 health-related categories.
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More Information

For more information on MFH Health Policy, contact:

Christine Raborn
Administrative Assistant
314.345.5576
craborn@mffh.org

Expanding Coverage to the Uninsured

The Health Policy area has launched a new project called Cover Missouri, with the goal of all Missourians having quality, affordable health coverage. This website provides fact sheets, reports, and news about health coverage issues in Missouri.
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Publications

Fact Sheet: Supporting Private Insurance Through Premium Assistance

Premium assistance programs offer states the potential to cut the number of uninsured, to strengthen the system of employer-sponsored insurance, and to reduce federal and state expenditures for public insurance. This fact sheet examines the advantages and disadvantages associated with designing and implementing various types of premium assistance programs.

Increasing Health Insurance Coverage in Missouri Through Subsidies

This study compares the benefits of subsidizing employers vs. subsidizing individuals to increase health care coverage for the state.

Expanding Insurance Coverage for Workers in Small Businesses

This paper analyzes state government policy options designed to increase health insurance coverage for small business employees. Based on a review of the recent reform efforts in California and Massachusetts, the study evaluates the effectiveness of such policies with particular attention to their applicability to Missouri.

The Missouri Health Insurance Pool: Issues for Policymakers

This piece provides background and specifically examines Missouri's high-risk pool, comparing it to those in other states. It offers specific recommendations for consideration regarding enrollment, benefits, costs, and funding issues.

Expanding Coverage Through the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan (MCHCP)

This report examines ways that Missouri could use its state employees' health plan to expand insurance coverage to small businesses. The purpose of this study is to discuss key design decisions and explore the advantages/disadvantages of allowing small employers to buy coverage through MCHCP.

High-Deductible Health Plans with Health Savings Accounts: Emerging Evidence and Outstanding Issues

This study lays out both advantages and disadvantages of the use of high deductible plans. It touches on why this solution may exacerbate risk selection issues that already seem to be present in Missouri. It discusses how these plans can be a somewhat better deal for a large swath of the population that is younger and healthier but only at some cost.

Implementing Reinsurance: Health Insurance Reform in Missouri

This piece describes how public reinsurance could be structured in the state to spread risk and lower premiums. It provides the evidence on how such an approach could reduce costs of private insurance plans.

Innovative State Programs to Cover the Uninsured - Lessons for Missouri

This paper explores the programs and policies that other states have adopted inorder to reduce the number of uninsured individuals. The discussion includes common elements that contribute to successful coverage expansions in a given state. The study also looks at Missouri's own experience in addressing the issue of the insured.

A Universal Health Care Plan for Missouri

This paper determines the cost of a universal insurance plan covering all Missouri residents under 65, and compares that cost to the current expenditure.The model used is a single payer plan financed through a payroll tax - similar to the financing of the Federal Medicare program.