Who Gets Unexpected Medical Bills?
Source Kaiser Health Tracking Poll – Late Summer 2018: The Election, Pre-Existing Conditions, and Surprises on Medical Bills…
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Source Kaiser Health Tracking Poll – Late Summer 2018: The Election, Pre-Existing Conditions, and Surprises on Medical Bills…
The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll continues to find pre-existing conditions as a widespread concern with most Americans saying it is very important that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) protections for people with pre-existing conditions remain law. With health care costs continuing to be a major topic in the 2018 campaigns, the poll looks at the public’s experiences with unexpected medical bills and finds that this tops a list of possible problems people could face. In addition, the poll examines the public’s views of President Trump’s contentious relationship with prescription drug companies.
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Source KFF analysis of a five percent sample of Medicare prescription drug event claims from the CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse, 2007-2016.
Source KFF analysis based on CMS Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey 2013 Cost and Use file and The Urban Institute's DYNASIM3…
Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of data from Mark Farrah Associates Health Coverage Portal TM and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)…
This analysis on the recent June 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll examines the public’s attitudes, with a focus on views of women ages 18-44, toward several key women’s issues including workplace protections, reproductive health, and the #MeToo Movement – as well as the role that these issues may play in the 2018 midterm elections.
Source Kaiser Health Tracking Poll (conducted July 17-22, 2018)…
The July 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that a candidate's position on continuing coverage for pre-existing conditions tops voters' list of priorities when it comes to who they'll vote for in the 2018 midterms. Additionally, 6 in 10 Americans say President Trump and his administration are trying to make the Affordable Care Act fail, and about half say that this is a bad thing.
Source KFF Health Tracking Polls (interviews from February and March 2018)…
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