This brief summarizes key findings gleaned from site visits to states where IAC has made multiyear "Finish Line" grants. These findings describe the importance of persistence, flexibility, creativity, and commitment to conducting effective states-based advocacy as well as building strong,...

This brief summarizes key findings of the Narrative Communications Project sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. This communications capacity-building grant project aimed to help state-based advocates build consensus more effectively and promote children's health insurance...

In 2007, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation established Insuring America's Children to help secure health care for all children. A new brief and executive summary document how state-based grantees responded and adapted to unprecedented changes in children's coverage over the past several...

Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs) are a type of Medicare Advantage plan that serve beneficiaries dually enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid. To operate in a state, D-SNPs must have a contract with the state to facilitate coordination of Medicare and Medicaid services for enrollees,...

For people with certain disabilities, completing an interview by telephone or mail may be difficult or impossible, making in-person interviews necessary.

Most Americans want to die at home, but most die in hospitals or other facilities. Most people care more about quality of life than prolonging life as long as possible, but many receive invasive, life-sustaining treatments that diminish quality of life.