Spending To Survive: Cancer Patients Confront Holes in the Health Insurance System
This report highlights the severe challenges cancer patient may face in paying for life-saving care even when they have private health insurance.
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The Cost of Cancer
VideoThis Kaiser Family Foundation documentary explores the financial consequences faced by three people, all privately insured, after being diagnosed with cancer. It was released in conjunction with a joint Kaiser/American Cancer Society report, "Spending To Survive: Cancer Patients Confront Holes in the Health Insurance System.
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Visualizing Health Policy: A Snapshot of Cancer Spending and Outcomes
Other PostThis Visualizing Health Policy infographic provides details on cancer spending and outcomes in the United States. The U.S. cancer mortality rate, 203 deaths per 100,000 population, was slightly lower than in comparable countries in 2010. Among cancers, lung cancer is the largest contributor to disease burden for both men and women.
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What Are Recent Trends in Cancer Spending and Outcomes?
FeatureThis slideshow compares death rates, years of life lost and disease burden from cancers in the United States to those from other diseases and in other countries. The slideshow also looks at spending on cancers in relation to spending on other diseases and to overall health expenditures.
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The Diseases We Spend Our Health Dollars On
News ReleaseIn his latest column for The Wall Street Journal's Think Tank, Drew Altman explains how a recent Bureau of Economic Analysis report makes the nation’s health care spending more tangible by breaking it down by disease. All previous columns by Drew Altman are available online.
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USA Today/Kaiser/Harvard Survey Highlights Problems in the Health Care System Through the Experiences of People With Cancer
Poll FindingEmbargoed for release until:Monday, November 20, 2006 For further information contact:Craig Palosky, cpalosky@kff.org or (202) 347-5270Larry Levitt, llevitt@kff.
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Toplines: National Survey of Households Affected by Cancer
Poll FindingThese toplines provide the complete survey questions and findings from the National Survey of Households Affected by Cancer conducted jointly by USA Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health by telephone between Aug. 1 and Sept. 14, 2006.
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New Federal Guidelines for Alcohol Use Come as Alcohol Deaths Remain Above Pre-Pandemic Levels
Quick TakeThe updated federal alcohol guidelines simply advise adults to “consume less for better overall health” without specifying limits – a change that could portend a renewed rise in alcohol-related deaths.
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Visualizing Health Policy: A Snapshot of Cancer Spending and Outcomes
News ReleaseThis Visualizing Health Policy infographic provides details on cancer spending and outcomes in the United States.