This chartbook provides an overview of health care spending and trends in health plan enrollment. It highlights health insurance premiums and costs, health insurance benefits, the structure of the health care market. Data on the stock markets role within the health care industry and implications of health insurance trends for consumers and the safety net is also included.

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This report presents findings based upon the KPMG health benefits survey of private and public employers and explores the extent of ERISA preemption on health plans covering U.S. workers. Included is estimated data on the total number of workers covered by fully and partly self-insured health plans in 1993 and 1995, a summary of the ERISA provisions and case law dealing with health plans and an analysis of potential changes to ERISA.

Note: This publication is no longer in circulation. However, a few copies may still exist in the Foundation’s internal library that could be xeroxed. Please contact us if you would like to pursue this option.

A national survey of 800 African Americans, plus an additional general population sample of 800 Americans, examining perceptions about the media’s coverage of health issues that most concern and impact African Americans. This survey was conducted jointly by the Foundation and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) for presentation at the NABJ’s annual conference being held in Washington, DC on Friday, July 31st, 1998.

HIV Prevention for Injection Drug Users, Special Supplement to JAIDS

This special supplement from the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology represents a compilation of selected presentations from the 1995 workshop sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Center of Substance Abuse Treatment, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse entitled “Sterile Needles and Syringes for Drug Users Who Continue Injecting”. Other related papers prepared by leading experts inthe field offer important insights into strategies for developing effective HIV intervention programs among injection drug users.

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Medicare Beneficiaries & HMO’s: A Case Study of the Portland, OR Market

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Que Es El Medicare Y Como Se Financia? Medicare es un programa de seguro medico nacional que atiende a 39 millones de ancianos y discapacitados. Antes de la existencia del Medicare, menos de la mitad de todos los norteamericanos de edad avanzada contaban con un seguro medico. Hoy en dia, practicamente todos los adultos de 65 anos de edad mayores se encuentran asegurados bajo Medicare. Medicare cubre a 34 millones de beneficiarios ancianos y a 5 millones de discapacitados. La cantidad de beneficiarios del Medicare se ha duplicado desde la concepcion del programa en 1965 y se estima que se volvera a duplicar en las siguientes tres decadas hasta alcanzar una cifra de 72 millones.

• Fact Sheet: Panorama General De Medicare

This case study of the evolution of Medicare managed care in Portland, Oregon, is part of a series of four case studies being prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation to learn more about the factors influencing, and consequences of, the growth of Medicare managed care. Portland was one of the first markets to implement a Medicare managed care program, with the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan beginning its Medicare HMO in 1978 and all four of Portland’s current Medicare risk contractors serving the Medicare population by the late 1980s.

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This case study of the evolution of Medicare managed care in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida, is one of four in a series being prepared by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., for the Kaiser Family Foundation to examine the growth and impact of Medicare managed care. The Medicare risk (HMO) program has developed at different rates and with different degrees of success across the country. The four unique market areas selected for the project include two with high Medicare plan payment rates and two with moderate rates. The two with high adjusted average per capita cost rates (AAPCC) are Los Angeles and New York City. The two areas with more moderate AAPCC rates are Portland, Oregon and Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida. Medicare managed care plans in Tampa-St. Petersburg have developed only recently, and they appear to be growing rapidly and prospering.

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Medicare Managed Care (Spanish)

• Fact Sheet: The Medicare Program: Funcion de Medicare Para Latinos