In Health Care, Sometimes It’s Provider Choice vs. Price May 20, 2014 Perspective Drew Altman, in The Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank, examines the tradeoff between choice of doctors and hospitals and price when choosing a narrow network.
Avoiding the Wrong Lessons From the VA and HealthCare.gov Problems May 27, 2014 Perspective This was published as a Wall Street Journal Think Tank column on May 27, 2014. Problems with the launch of HealthCare.gov and with veterans hospitals allegedly concealing long waits for care feed a narrative that government doesn’t work. But many government programs, including Medicare and Social Security, work well. And there are…
Individual Market Enrollment Ticks Up in Early 2014 June 2, 2014 Issue Brief This early look at the growth in the individual or nongroup market during the first three months of 2014 uses first quarter enrollment data submitted by insurance companies to state regulators to estimate the size of the market at the end of March. It includes both on and off exchange enrollment and is net of any people leaving the market (whether through plan cancellations or general churn in the market). It does not include the surge of enrollment that occurred toward the end of the open enrollment period as those enrollees most likely began their coverage in April or May.
What’s Driving the GOP Health Plan May 30, 2014 Perspective This was published as a Wall Street Journal Think Tank column on May 30, 2014. Conservative House Republicans are pushing for a vote on a GOP health-care plan, presumably to appeal to their base, to give GOP candidates health reform ideas to talk about on the campaign trail and to show that…
Majority of the Public Say They Haven’t Been Affected By the Health Reform Law May 30, 2014 News Release Democrats More Likely to Say They Have Been Helped By the Law, Republicans More Likely to Say They Have Been Hurt Republican Voters Want ACA Debate to Continue, Democrats Would Rather Hear Candidates Talk About Issues Like Jobs, Independents Are More Split More than four years after the Affordable Care…
New Analysis Provides Early Look At Increase in Individual Market Enrollees June 2, 2014 News Release A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of health insurer reports to state regulators provides a first glimpse of enrollment in the individual, or non-group, insurance market under the Affordable Care Act. These initial filings reflect enrollment both through the new state insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act as…
Kaiser Family Foundation Launches New Non-Profit Health Policy News Service June 1, 2009 News Release Kaiser Health News Will Provide In-Depth Reporting on Major Health Policy Issues Menlo Park, CA — In the midst of a major federal health reform debate and the ongoing financial turmoil in the media industry, the Kaiser Family Foundation officially launched Kaiser Health News (KHN) today to provide a new…
How Much Political Coverage of the Health-Care Law Is Too Much? June 5, 2014 Perspective This was published as a Wall Street Journal Think Tank column on June 5, 2014. With primaries underway and the midterms approaching, coverage of the Affordable Care Act will increasingly focus on politics. Many political reporters may take temporary control of the health-care beat during the leadup to November. News organizations should…
Webinar for Journalists: Results from Survey of People Who Bought Their Own Health Insurance Under the ACA June 19, 2014 Event The Kaiser Family Foundation held a reporters-only webinar at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday, June 19 to release its new Survey of Non-Group Health Insurance Enrollees, providing a first look at people buying their own health insurance following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The first in a series,…