Voters Are Tuning Out the Health Care Debates
In this Axios column, Drew Altman reports on new KFF focus groups with voters. They show voters are focused on the problems they have paying for care and navigating the health system, but have yet to...
View ArticleLow-income Californians and Health Care
This summary examines key findings from the Kaiser Family Foundation and California Health Care Foundation California Health Policy Survey among low-income Californians. This brief examines the...
View ArticleData Note: Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs
This data note summarizes our most recent polling on the public’s experiences with and worries about health care costs, and it highlights where Americans place costs on their list of health care issues...
View ArticleVisualizing Health Policy: Barriers to Care Experienced by Women in the...
This Visualizing Health Policy infographic, produced in partnership with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), looks at barriers to care experienced by women in the United States.
View ArticleStrategies for Improving Health Coverage and Reducing Costs: Major Proposals...
KFF's Tricia Neuman's testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means on June 12, 2019 describes a range of proposals to broaden health insurance coverage and make health care more...
View ArticlePoll: Most Americans Don’t Realize How Dramatically the Medicare-for-all...
As Congress and the Democratic presidential candidates continue to discuss Medicare-for-all and other proposals to expand public health coverage, most Americans know little about how the leading...
View ArticleKFF Health Tracking Poll – June 2019: Health Care in the Democratic Primary...
In anticipation of upcoming Democratic presidential debates, this poll finds that Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say that health care is a top issue they want to hear candidates talk...
View ArticleAn Examination of Surprise Medical Bills and Proposals to Protect Consumers...
This analysis examines how often patients get hit with surprise medical bills, what circumstances tend to give rise to them and what proposals are being considered to protect consumers from this problem.
View ArticleAbout 1 in 6 Emergency Visits and Hospital Stays Had At Least One...
In roughly 1 of every 6 emergency room visits and inpatient hospital stays in 2017, patients came home with at least one out-of-network medical bill, a new KFF analysis finds. More specifically, 18...
View ArticleState Actions to Improve the Affordability of Health Insurance in the...
A number of states have taken steps to provide consumers with more affordable coverage options in the individual market, including the marketplaces. Some states are implementing strategies that lower...
View ArticleWhat’s The Role of Private Health Insurance Today and Under Medicare-for-all...
This brief examines the role private insurers play in providing health coverage for Americans today in employer plans and the individual market, as well as in Medicare and Medicaid, and how that would...
View ArticleTracking the Rise in Premium Contributions and Cost-Sharing for Families with...
An analysis of large employer health coverage on the Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker finds that the cost to families for health coverage and care has risen more than two times faster than wages...
View ArticleNew Analysis of Large Employer Health Coverage: The Cost to Families for...
A new KFF analysis that looked at both premiums and other out-of-pocket costs shows that families with coverage through a large employer paid 67 percent more for their health benefits and care in 2018...
View ArticleBenchmark Employer Survey Finds Average Family Premiums Now Top $20,000
Annual family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose 5% to average $20,576 this year, according to the 2019 benchmark KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey released today. Workers’ wages...
View ArticleJAMA Forum: What is Trumpcare?
The debate among Democratic presidential candidates about how to reform the health care system largely boils down to whether to build on the Affordable Care Act and create an option for people to...
View ArticlePublic Opinion on Prescription Drugs and Their Prices
This slideshow draws on recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll findings to provide an in-depth look at the public's attitudes toward prescription drugs and their prices. Results include Americans'...
View ArticleVisualizing Health Policy: US Public’s Perspective on Prescription Drug Costs
This infographic examines public opinion on prescription drug costs in the United States as part of the Visualizing Health Policy infographic series, produced in partnership with the Journal of the...
View ArticleVisualizing Health Policy: US Public’s Perspective on Prescription Drug Costs
This Visualizing Health Policy infographic examines public opinion on prescription drug costs in the United States (US). Over the past 20 years, US drug spending has increased by 330% compared to a...
View ArticleACA Open Enrollment: If You Buy Health Coverage in the Individual Market
This short explainer provides an overview of open enrollment and the 2020 individual insurance market, including Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces, for consumers who buy their own plans rather...
View ArticleACA Open Enrollment: If You Shop on Private Websites Instead of HealthCare.gov
Marketplace plans can now be sold through private websites, sometimes described as "direct enrollment” sites or “certified enrollment partner” sites. This short fact sheet explains how these sites and...
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