Health Care Costs Survey
This comprehensive survey from USA Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health examines how Americans are being affected by health care costs.
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A Consumer Guide to Handling Disputes with Your Employer or Private Health Plan
ReportMost people get their health care through some form of managed care plan – a health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, or point-of-service option. Most of the time, people receive the care they need, but the potential exists for disagreements over the services that will be provided or paid for by health plans.
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Online Tools for Consumer-Directed Health Plans
Event Date:EventOn Jan. 25, 2005, Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a demonstration of the online tools made available to enrollees in consumer-directed health plans.
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Update on Individual Health Insurance
ReportThis report provides information about the individual health insurance market using data from the largest vendor of this type of insurance, eHealthInsurance. The report includes who is buying individual insurance, what they are actually paying for the insurance, and buying patterns.
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Coverage and Cost Impacts of the President’s Health Insurance Tax Credit and Tax Deduction Proposals
Issue BriefThis issue brief looks at the coverage impacts and costs of two components of the administration’s FY 2005 budget proposals to increase the affordability of health insurance: a new tax credit for people purchasing non-group health insurance and a new tax deduction for premiums for high-deductible, non-group health insurance policies.
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Regulation of Private Long-Term Care Insurance: Implementation Experience and Key Issues
ReportRegulation of Private Long-Term Care Insurance: Implementation Experience and Key Issues While private long-term care insurance (LTCI) has been available since the mid-1970s, its popularity has grown rapidly in recent years, and Congress is considering proposals that would further encourage LTCI purchase through expanded tax subsidies.
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Private Long-Term Care Insurance: Who Should Buy It and What Should They Buy?
ReportPrivate Long-Term Care Insurance: Who Should Buy It and What Should They Buy? Despite the growing interest in private long-term care insurance (LTCI), there has been little independent examination of how much protection LTCI policies provide consumers or whether LTCI policies are a worthwhile purchase for people of average means.
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How Private Insurance Works: A Primer
ReportThis primer, prepared by Gary Claxton of the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy at Georgetown University, examines the structure and operation of private health insurance including the types of organizations that provide it, how managed care is delivered, and how risk pools work and describes how private health insurance coverage is regulated under…
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New Survey on Consumer Experiences with Health Plans
ReportSurvey on Consumer Experiences with Health Plans A Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey found that more than six in ten privately insured American adults under age 65 give their health plans a grade of A or B, but nearly half report having some type of problem with their health plan in the…
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How Accessible is Individual Health Insurance for Consumers in Less-Than Perfect Health?
ReportThis report documents the findings of a study examining access to health insurance coverage in the individual market for people with health problems.