Poll: Public Says Drug Companies Have More Influence in Washington than the NRA March 23, 2018 News Release Democrats Split on Whether to Fix the ACA or Push for a National Health Plan; Few Democratic Voters Say a National Health Plan is Their Top Issue for the Midterms As policymakers weigh strategies to address the high cost of prescription drugs, the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that…
Poll: Public Mixed on Whether Medicaid Work Requirements Are More to Cut Spending or to Lift People Up; Most Do Not Support Lifetime Limits on Benefits March 1, 2018 News Release Ahead of the Midterms, Voters across Parties See Costs as their Top Health Care Concern At a time when the Trump Administration is encouraging state efforts to revamp their Medicaid programs through waivers, the latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll finds the public splits on whether the reason behind proposals…
U.S. health care spending per capita has risen at historically low rates recently, but is expected to pick up. February 22, 2018 Slide
Snapshots of Recent State Initiatives in Medicaid Prescription Drug Cost Control February 21, 2018 Issue Brief This issue brief provides a snapshot of current state initiatives aimed at addressing the cost of prescription drugs in Medicaid.
Don’t Overhype the New Health Care Venture February 8, 2018 Perspective In an Axios column, Drew Altman dissects the many dimensions of the health cost problem and discusses why the Bezos-Buffett-Dimon initiative is unlikely to have much impact on the larger health cost problems the public and policymakers care about most.
Estimates Suggest That Rx Drugs Will Continue to Represent an Increasing Portion of Overall Health Spending February 1, 2018 Slide
Growth in Prescription Spending Has Slowed Again in 2016, After Increasing Rapidly in 2014 and 2015 January 4, 2018 Slide
How Premiums Are Changing In 2018 November 29, 2017 Issue Brief Maps illustrate how premiums in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces changed for 2018 by looking at the change in the lowest-cost bronze, silver and gold plans by county; counties where an individual’s tax credit covers the full premium of the lowest-cost bronze plan; and counties where the unsubsidized premium for the lowest-cost gold plan has a lower or comparable premium to the lowest-cost silver plan in 2018.
The Biggest Health Issue We Aren’t Debating November 22, 2017 Perspective In an Axios column, Drew Altman raises a health care issue that isn’t being debated, a large share of the public don’t have the assets to cover the cost sharing in their health plan if they get sick.