Health Costs
- Health Spending
How Much is Health Spending Expected to Grow?
In 2024, per capita health spending growth is estimated to have slowed to 4.5%. Growth is expected to slow further in 2025 and 2026 to 4.2% and 4.3%, respectively. - health spending
Household Health Spending Calculator
This interactive tool, updated with 2022 data, helps users understand health care costs vary by family size, income, insurance, and health status. Use the dropdown menus to explore scenarios and trends in household health spending. - Access & Affordability
How Does U.S. Health Care Quality Compare?
This chart collection compares the United States and other large, high-income nations across various measures of care quality to show how the U.S. stacks up against its peers and how that has changed over time.
- Access & Affordability
Medicare Drug Negotiations and Employer Coverage
Among the 167 million people with employer-sponsored insurance in 2022, 3.4 million used at least one of the first 10 drugs identified for Medicare price negotiations,
Health Policy 101: Costs and Affordability
This Health Policy 101 chapter explores trends in health care costs in the U.S. and the factors that contribute to this spending. It also examines how health care spending varies and the impact on affordability and people’s overall financial vulnerability.
Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs
This data note reviews our recent polling data that finds that Americans struggle to afford many aspects of health care, including disproportionate shares of uninsured adults, Black and Hispanic adults and those with lower incomes.
National Health Spending Explorer
This interactive Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker tool allows users to examine five decades worth of data on health expenditures by federal and local governments, private insurers, and individuals.
Polling on Prescription Drugs and Their Prices
This chart collection draws on recent KFF poll findings to provide an in-depth look at the public’s attitudes toward prescription drugs and their prices. Results include Americans’ opinions on drug affordability, pharmaceutical companies, and various potential measures that could lower prices.
Latest News
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The Medicare Advantage Influence Machine
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Tennessee Tries To Rein In Ballad’s Hospital Monopoly After Years of Problems
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States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.
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The Concierge Catch: Better Access for a Few Patients Disrupts Care for Many