This Kaiser Family Foundation analysis finds that while prescription opioid use among people with private insurance has declined to its lowest levels in over a decade, the cost of treating opioid abuse has increased substantially.
Category: health costs
The Politics of ACA Rate Hikes Will Be 2016 in Reverse
Democrats are expected to turn the tables and attack Republicans for rising premiums and sabotaging the Affordable Care Act. In his Axios column, Drew Altman discusses a balancing act they face which has not received attention: score political points, …
Public Opinion on Prescription Drugs and Their Prices
This slideshow draws on recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll findings to provide an in-depth look at the public’s attitudes toward prescription drugs and their prices. Results include Americans’ opinions on drug affordability, pharmaceutical companies,…
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll – March 2018: Views on Prescription Drug Pricing and Medicare-for-all Proposals
More than a year into President Trump’s presidency, the March Kaiser Health Tracking Poll gauges the public’s top priorities for the president and Congress to do in the coming months. This month’s poll also measures perceptions on the cost of prescription drugs, attitudes towards policymakers’ actions to address drug prices, and views of pharmaceutical companies. In addition, with the 2018 midterm elections less than 8 months away, the KFF poll asks how important a national health plan is to voters.
Poll: Public Says Drug Companies Have More Influence in Washington than the NRA
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 a large majority of the…More
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…
