Category: Kaiser Family Foundation

Section 5: Structure of the Health Care Marketplace

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 next > Exhibit 5.1: Health Care Employment and Share of Total Non-Farm Employment, 1990-2005p Health care employment as a proportion of all non-farm employment has increased fairly steadily since the early 1990s. I…

Section 2: Health Insurance Enrollment

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 next > Exhibit 2.1: Trends in Health Coverage for the Nonelderly Population, 2002 and 2003 The percent of the nonelderly population without insurance rose from 17.3% in 2002 to 17.7% in 2003 (or 44.7…

Section 1: Health Spending and Costs, Including Prescription Drugs

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 next > Exhibit 1.1: National Health Expenditures and Their Share of Gross Domestic Product, 1960-2004 Expenditures in the United States on health care were nearly $1.9 trillion in 2004, m…

The Development of Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising Regulation

This article, which appears in the Food and Drug Law Journal, vol. 57, no. 3, 2002, pp. 423-444 was based on a report written by F.B. Palumbo and C.D. Mullins at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Center on Drugs and Public Policy and funded…

The Current State of Retiree Health Benefits: Findings from the Kaiser/Hewitt 2002 Retiree Health Survey

The Current State of Retiree Health Benefits: Findings from the Kaiser/Hewitt 2002 Retiree Health Survey This report presents findings from a study of large private-sector employers conducted by researchers at Hewitt Associates and the Kaiser Family Fo…

Latest Findings on Employer-Based Coverage of Contraception

This memorandum provides background on the issue of contraceptive coverage and presents new findings from the soon to be released Kaiser/HRET 2002 Annual Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits. Employer Based Coverage of Contraception