steepest increase nationwide." Surveys Find Declining Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Americans. Reuters (3/30) reports that according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, "the percentage of U.S. Black adults who say they have either received a vaccine shot for COVID-19 or want one as soon as possible rose to 55% in

les on how states use the money, according to the study released yesterday. Medicaid covered about 62 million Americans in fiscal 2009, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a Menlo Park, California-based research group. About 49 percent of enrollees were children. It is a joint federal-state program. As usual, a spoke

aleigh, •., who earns $30,000 a year would receive $3,000 from the government to buy insurance, 32 percent less than under current law, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The bill would provide older people more generous subsidies — those over 6o get a subsidy of $4,000, or twice as much as 2o-somethings — but insur

the lack of a dedicated funding stream (i.e., a tax similar to the Medicare payroll tax) makes the math even more difficult. But by one measure from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 60% of the Medicaid budget in 2001 was spent on so-called optional recipients (such as mid- to low-income population above poverty level) or on opti