Role of Safety Net Providers in Implementation of the ACA/Overviews

• The Role of Free Clinics in the Era of Health Reform – Americares 
• Community Health Centers and State Health Policy: A Primer for Policy Makers   – National Academy for State Health Policy
• Towards Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Populations: Issues for Policy Makers’ Consideration in Integrating a Safety Net into Health Care Reform Implementation  – National Academy for State Health Policy
• Potential Roles for Safety Net Providers in Supporting Continuity Across Medicaid and Health Insurance Exchanges   – National Academy for State Health Policy
• Safety Net in the Era of Health Reform: A New Vision of Care March 2012  – Grantmakers in Health
• Hot Issues for Health Care Safety Net Providers – Center for Studying Health System Change
• The Mission of Safety Net Organizations Following National Insurance Reform  – Journal of General Internal Medicine, July 2011
• The Primary Care Safety Net:  Strained, Transitioning, Critical – National Health Policy Forum

Health Care Workforce/Safety Net Financing

• Issues and Policy Options in Sustaining a Safety Net Infrastructure to Meet the Health Care Needs of Vulnerable Populations  – National Academy for State Health Policy
• Engaging the Safety Net in Health Care Reform  – National Academy for State Health Policy

Integrated Delivery Systems

• Promoting the Integration and Coordination of Safety-Net Health Care Providers Under Health Reform: Key Issues  – The Commonwealth Fund 
• Including Safety-Net Providers in Integrated Delivery Systems: Issues and Options for Policymakers  – The Commonwealth Fund 
• Engaging the Safety Net in Health Care Reform  – National Academy for State Health Policy
• Safety Net Integration: Tackling Fragmentation While Improving Access to Care and Efficiency  – National Health Policy Forum
• Toward Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Populations: Issues for Policymakers’ Consideration in Integrating a Safety Net into Health Care Reform Implementation  – National Academy for State Health Policy 
• How the Affordable Care Act Supports a High-Performance Safety Net   – The Commonwealth Fund

Patient Education

• Understanding the Health Insurance Changes Coming for Americans with ObamaCare (Affordable Care Act)  – Spanish Version  –  The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
• Health Care Reform: What It Means for You  –  Spanish Version  – American Academy of Family Physicians
• Health Law Answers –  American Association of Retired People (AARP)

Links

• National Health Care Policy Forum 
• National Academy for State Health Policy 
• National Academy for State Health Policy/ Access and Safety Net Initiatives
• Health Coverage and the Uninsured from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
• Health Reform Source from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
• Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
• The Commonwealth Fund
• HRSA: Primary Care The Health Center Program Policies
• Covering the Uninsured from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Health Policy from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Health Services Research Information Central from the U.S. National Library of Medicine
• State Refor(u)m, An Online Network for State Reform Implementation
• State Estimates of the Low-Income Uninsured Not Eligible for the ACA Medicaid Expansion  from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation