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  • KFF Contributions to The JAMA Forum

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    KFF Contributions to The JAMA Forum To provide ongoing coverage throughout this election year, JAMA assembled a team of leading scholars, including the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt. Below are a collection of his contributions: Nov. 28, 2012: Key Decisions Loom for States About the Health Care Law Oct. 16, 2012: Hard Questions on Health Care Sept. 6, 2012: What Is Health Care Cost Containment? Aug. 2, 2012: The Middle Class Tax Break Hardly Anyone…

  • Coverage of Colonoscopies Under the Affordable Care Act’s Prevention Benefit

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    The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires private health insurers to cover recommended preventive services such as colonoscopies without any patient cost-sharing. This report finds that confusion over whether colon cancer screenings are preventive care or treatment means patients sometimes receive unexpected bills for the procedure. The report examines cost-sharing practices for colorectal screenings through interviews with experts and officials in the medical and insurance industries. This report was co-authored by The Kaiser Family Foundation, American…

  • Transparency and Complexity

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    This fall a new rule takes effect requiring all private health plans to offer a uniform, simple to read, summary of benefits and coverage (SBC).  The SBC will provide consumers with standardized information about how plans cover essential health benefits and what coverage limits and cost sharing applies. The SBC is one of the most popular provisions of the ACA.  Consumers often find health insurance difficult to understand and would no doubt welcome a plainly written…

  • Is a Death Spiral Inevitable If There is No Mandate?

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    If the Supreme Court acts within the next couple of weeks to overturn the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) while leaving the rest of the law intact, expect to hear a lot about how the individual insurance market will be destined for a "death spiral." When compared with implementing the ACA in full as planned, there's a consensus that eliminating the mandate would increase premiums and mean that far fewer of the…

  • Kaiser Survey Probes Health Insurance Brokers’ Views on Insurance Trends, ACA

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    A new nationally representative survey of 500 health insurance agents and brokers working in the individual and small group markets by the Kaiser Family Foundation explores their outlook on market trends and views on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The survey finds that many agents are seeing steep increases in premiums and deductibles for individuals and small businesses purchasing health insurance. When asked to estimate what they expect to be the typical premium increase in 2012…

  • The High and Rising Costs Of Health Care: What Can Be Done?

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    The Alliance for Health Reform, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and several cosponsors held the final event in a three-part series of discussions on costs, the factors driving them up and what (if anything) can be done about them. This briefing and others in the series take an in-depth look at a select few of the most often cited health care cost drivers. This briefing focuses on efforts to improve health and health care at lower…