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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This report highlights the severe challenges cancer patient may face in paying for life-saving care even when they have private health insurance.
The Kaiser Family Foundation maintains a number of primers providing overviews of key health care programs and issues. Written by Foundation staff, each primer provides key data and information that helps illustrate the topic and its relevance for the nation's health care system.
The economic downturn has strained family finances and prompted some Americans to cut back on medications and forgo preventive care and visits to the doctor. At the same time, the downturn has triggered declines in tax revenue that inhibit states’ ability to meet rising Medicaid program costs as enrollment spikes during economic hard times.
A newer version of this Snapshot is available here. Compensation for Workers with and without Access to Health Benefits at Work October 2008 This paper compares the payroll and benefit compensation of workers that had access to employer-sponsored health benefits at work to that of workers who did not have an insurance offer.
One of the underlying big issues in the unfolding health reform debate is whether most Americans should continue to get insurance through work where they get it today, or purchase it themselves in the individual private health insurance marketplace.
Employer-provided health insurance is the primary source of insurance coverage in the United States, covering almost 160 million people or more than 90 percent of the non-elderly privately-insured population.
How Private Health Coverage Works: A Primer— 2008 Update This primer explains the role and operations of private health coverage in the United States.
This report provides a detailed account of how employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) coverage changed between 2001 and 2005, particularly among employees (i.e., workers who are not self-employed).
The 2006 Kaiser/Hewitt survey of large businesses that provide retiree health benefits to their workers assesses their evolving responses to the new Medicare drug benefit in 2006. It also looks at the rising costs and changing benefits of retiree health coverage overall in 2006, as well as the outlook for 2007 and beyond.
Health Benefits This document presents key data from the 2006 Kaiser/Hewitt Survey on Retiree Health Benefits. Chartpack (.
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