Health Policy Update: May 15, 2025
In an effort to help our Funding Partners better understand the changing health policy landscape in the new administration and Congress, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is expanding the GIH Health Policy Update newsletter to three issues per month. Working in collaboration with Leavitt Partners, a leading health care policy consultancy, we are adding new installments of the newsletter on the first and third Wednesdays of the month, while we will continue to partner with Trust for America’s Health on the installment released on the second Wednesday of the month.
From the Ground Up: Plenary Addresses From GIH’s 2006 Annual Meeting
This report features plenary speeches delivered at Grantmakers In Health’s 2006 Annual Meeting on Health Philanthropy, From the Ground Up: Improving Community Health, Inspiring Community Action. The meeting explored how grantmakers are meeting the challenges of creating healthy, vibrant communities. These remarks inspired attendees and served as a catalyst for engaging and informative dialogue throughout the meeting.
Supporting Local Efforts to Improve Health Care Access
The number of Americans without access to health care has continued to climb due to rising medical costs,ongoing declines in employer-sponsored coverage,and recent cuts in public programs. With no national solution in sight, many cities and counties across the country have designed local initiatives to provide coverage and care for their uninsured residents. This Issue Focus looks at approaches grantmakers are taking to address these issues.
Implementing the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
On January 1, 2006, Medicare prescription drug coverage became available to the program’s 43 million beneficiaries. To receive the coverage, however, beneficiaries must actively opt in to Medicare Part D by selecting a prescription drug plan (PDP).
From the Ground Up
The resource portfolio is from GIH’s 2006 annual meeting, From the Ground Up: Improving Community Health, Inspiring Community Action.
The Path to Policy Change: Practical Steps and Lessons from Health Funders
As part of its continuing mission to serve trustees and staff of health foundations and corporate giving programs, on November 3, 2005, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) convened nearly 80 grantmakers and a diverse group of individuals with expertise in different types of public policy work to discuss the challenges and opportunities for health funders interested in fostering systemic change. This report offers lessons learned about how to approach public policy work generally as well as those related to advocacy, communications, community organizing, data development and analysis, and evaluation.
More Coverage, Better Care: Improving Children’s Access to Health Services
Children’s access to health care has been a longstanding policy issue, with strong bipartisan support for expanding insurance coverage and redesigning the health care delivery system in ways that benefit young people. Despite enormous progress made over the past two decades, however, millions of children remain unable to obtain needed health services. This Issue Brief covers how the current health care system succeeds and fails for children, emerging policy developments, what grantmakers are currently doing to promote children’s access to health services, and lessons learned to help guide future work.
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