Many Older Women on Medicare are Impoverished
Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Access to Care file, 2006
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Medical Debt Among People With Health Insurance
ReportThis report examines the causes and contributors to medical debt, medical bankruptcy, and other difficulties with medical bills among people with insurance. Through in-depth interviews of nearly two-dozen people and quantitative analysis of national survey data, the authors of this report find that in-network and out-of-net-work cost sharing primarily contribute to medical debt among the insured.
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How Many Older Adults Live in Poverty?
Issue BriefTo provide context for understanding the financial needs and well-being of older adults, this brief analyzes the latest data on poverty rates among the 58 million non-institutionalized adults ages 65 and older in the U.S overall, based on both the official poverty measure and the Supplemental Poverty Measure.
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Healthier and Wealthier, or Sicker and Poorer? Prospects for Medicare Beneficiaries Now and in the Future
Event Date:EventThis January 2014 briefing, co-sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Alliance for Health Reform, examines what is known about the health and economic security of Medicare beneficiaries today, as well as how current and future beneficiaries may be affected by the leading proposals that aim to achieve Medicare savings.
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Multiple factors predispose women to needing long-term care
FeatureMultiple factors predispose women to needing long-term care Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Access to Care File, 2006
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Median Income of Medicare Beneficiaries Ages 65 and Over, by Gender, 2012
FeatureMedian Income of Medicare Beneficiaries Ages 65 and Over, by Gender, 2012 Download
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Medicare Beneficiaries’ Financial Security Before the Coronavirus Pandemic
Issue BriefThis analysis examines the income, savings, and home equity of Medicare beneficiaries in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic. We look at the overall population, and variations by age, gender and race/ethnicity.
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Retirement Insecurity in the Time of COVID-19: The Next Shoe to Drop?
Policy WatchThis blog post examines the retirement security of seniors with Medicare in the context of rising unemployment and market volatility due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Low Incomes, Little Savings: Many Medicare Beneficiaries Have Modest Financial Resources to Draw Upon in Retirement
News ReleaseA new KFF analysis shows that most Medicare beneficiaries live on relatively low incomes and have modest financial resources for retirement – posing a risk to their economic well-being, particularly if they were to have a major, unanticipated expense, such as a need for long-term nursing home care. The financial picture is especially bleak among Black and Hispanic Medicare beneficiaries, who tend to have lower incomes, savings, and home equity than White beneficiaries, the analysis…
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Streamlining Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services: Key Policy Questions
Issue BriefThis issue brief draws on features of the various existing Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) programs to identify key policy questions raised by initiatives to streamline Medicaid HCBS, ameliorate institutional bias, and improve administrative simplification.