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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Summary of Coverage Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Issue BriefThis short summary describes the health coverage provisions contained in the final version of the Affordable Care Act signed into law in March 2010, including the individual mandate requirements, expansion of public programs, health insurance exchanges, changes to private insurance and employer requirements.
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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll – October 2017: Experiences of the Non-Group Marketplace Enrollees
FeatureThe start of the open enrollment period for non-group insurance in 2018 is less than one month away, and the majority of individuals who are targets for enrollment – those who currently purchase their own insurance and those who are uninsured – are unaware of the key dates of the next open enrollment period. This report, focusing on enrollees in the non-group market, compares the experiences of individuals who purchase their own insurance through an ACA marketplace with the current health insurance market to those who get their insurance through their employer. Overall, the experiences of marketplace enrollees are more similar than different than those with employer coverage when it comes to costs and choices. However, marketplace enrollees are more likely to express worry about their future ability to afford insurance and health care services.
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Health Insurance Market Reforms: Pre-Existing Condition Exclusions
Fact SheetInsurers pursue multiple strategies to reduce the cost of covering enrollees with pre-existing conditions, or medical conditions and health problems that existed before the individual enrolled in a health plan.
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Statement of Gary Claxton to NAIC Exchanges (B) Subgroup
Event Date:EventKaiser Family Foundation Vice President Gary Claxton, who directs the Foundation's Marketplace Policy Project, testified July 22, 2010, at a public hearing before the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Exchanges (B) Subgroup established by the health reform law. Testimony (.
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Quick Take: Essential Health Benefits: What Have States Decided for Their Benchmark?
Fact SheetBeginning on January 1, 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that all non-grandfathered individual and small group health insurance plans sold in a state, including those offered through an Exchange, cover certain essential health benefits (EHBs).
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HIPAA Compliance Strategies In California: Reforming the State’s Individual Health Insurance Market — Policy Brief
Other PostHIPAA Compliance Strategies In California: Reforming the State's Individual Health Insurance Market -- Policy Brief A policy brief on reform of the individual insurance market and implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in California.
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Primers on Key Health Care Topics and Programs
Issue BriefThe 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.
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Assessing Congressional Budget Office Estimates of the Cost and Coverage Implications of Health Reform Proposals
Issue BriefThis issue brief explains key elements of the Congressional Budget Office's estimates of the major health reform bills pending in Congress, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590).