Category: health costs

Your Responses: How Has the Health Law Affected You?

Health law overhaul is affecting millions of Americans. Readers write to the Wall Street Journal to answer the question, “How has the health law affected you?”

What Does the Health Law Mean for You? Your Questions Answered

On Tuesday, February 25 at 3:00 p.m. ET the Wall Street Journal’s Anna Mathews will be joined by Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, Mike Stahl, senior vice president at HealthMarkets, and Adam Okun, senior vice president at…

How Has the Health Law Affected You?

This has been a huge year for the law known as Obamacare. Tell us your story of how the health law has affected you.

The Kaiser Initiative on Health Reform and Private Insurance

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Rate Review: Spotlight on State Efforts to Make Health Insurance More Affordable

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act creates a new federal role to examine “unreasonable increases” in the premiums charged for certain individual and small group health plans. Under the health reform law, the U.S. Department of H…

Snapshots: Compensation for Workers with and without Access to Health Benefits at Work

A newer version of this Snapshot is available here.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 heal…

Illustrating the Potential Impacts of Adverse Selection on Health Insurance Costs in Consumer Choice Models

Health Care Spending in the United States and OECD Countries  Health spending is rising faster than incomes in most developed countries, which raises questions about how these countries will pay for future health care needs.  The issue may be…

National Council of Jewish Women features article on “Diagnosing Women’s Health Care”

National Council of Jewish Women features article on “Diagnosing Women’s Health Care” Kaiser Vice President and Director of Women’s Health Policy, Alina Salganicoff, authored an article titled “Diagnosing Women’s Hea…

The Distributional Consequences of  Medicare Premium Support Proposal

The Distributional Consequences of a Medicare Premium Support Proposal This article analyzes the expected distributional impact of enacting a premium support proposal for Medicare based on legislation introduced by Sen. Breaux and Sen. Frist in 1999. T…

Current Trends and Future Outlook for Retiree Health Benefits:  Findings from the Kaiser/Hewitt 2004 Survey on Retiree Health Benefits

Current Trends and Future Outlook for Retiree Health Benefits: Findings from the Kaiser/Hewitt 2004 Survey on Retiree Health Benefits A new survey of large employers finds businesses and retirees experienced double-digit increase in retiree health cost…