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Kaiser Family Foundation Policy Workshop on Drug Formularies and Medicare

Excerpt: The Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a March 14, 2005 policy workshop on the use of drug formularies in the private sector and their potential implications for beneficiaries under the new Medicare drug benefit, set to go into effect January 1, 2006. .... In connection with today's workshop, the Foundation also released a number of new and updated reports and other resources [links available on the target page].  MORE >>

Kaiser Family Foundation Creates Interactive ACA Implementation Timeline

"The implementation timeline is an interactive tool designed to explain how and when the provisions of the health reform law will be implemented over the next several years. You can show or hide all the changes occurring in a year by clicking on that year. Click on a provision to get more information about it. Customize the timeline by checking and unchecking specific topics."  MORE >>

Kaiser Family Foundation's Testimony -- Public Views on Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising (PDF)

Excerpt: Mollyann Brodie, Kaiser vice president and director of Public Opinion and Media Research, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations about the public's views of prescription drugs, the pharmaceutical industry, and direct-to-consumer drug advertising. Brodie's testimony was a part of the hearing titled, 'Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Marketing, Education, or Deception?'  MORE >>

USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Survey: The Public on Prescription Drugs and Pharmaceutical Companies (PDF)

Excerpt: [The survey] finds Americans greatly value prescription drugs' potential benefits for their families, but most believe they cost too much money and many struggle to pay for needed medicines. The survey also provides a comprehensive look at Americans' views on, and experiences with, prescription drugs and the pharmaceutical industry, including drug costs, advertisements, safety issues, government regulation and medical research.  MORE >>

ABC News/Kaiser Family Foundation/USA Today Health Care in America 2006 Survey (PDF)

Excerpt: This poll examines Americans' views and experiences related to health care costs and quality, as well as their attitudes toward possible policy solutions. The results are featured in a series of reports on ABC News programs, ABCNews.com, and in USA Today during the week of Oct. 15, 2006.  MORE >>

Kaiser Family Foundation Releases Comprehensive Health Care in America Survey

Excerpt: [T]he survey as a whole reveals Americans' conflicting and contradictory opinions about the current state of this country's health care and health insurance systems -- and how those systems might be changed in the future.

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About Kaiser Health News

Excerpt: In his latest column from his 'Pulling It Together' series, the Kaiser Family Foundation's President and CEO Drew Altman explains the Foundation's new nonprofit health policy news service, Kaiser Health News, set to launch in early June, and why the Foundation developed it and what he hopes it will accomplish.  MORE >>

Kaiser Issue Brief Addresses Tax Subsidies for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance (PDF)

20 pages. Excerpt: This issue brief by Kaiser Family Foundation researchers uses examples of workers with different wages earnings to illustrate how the current tax code affects families depending on whether they have health coverage, and whether that coverage is provided through their employer. By excluding the value of employer-sponsored health benefits from taxable income, the current law generally provides a larger subsidy to higher-income families, since higher-income workers pay federal and state income taxes at a higher marginal tax rate than lower-income workers.

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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008, March 2007

Excerpt: This Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll is the first in a new series on the public's views of health reform and the presidential candidates' positions on health care. Through the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008, Kaiser will track changes in the saliency of health as a political and policy priority, what the public's priorities are for a health reform plan, and whether any candidates are breaking through with the public with their health reform plans.

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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - Election 2008, April 2008 (PDF)

Excerpt: An April 2008 poll finds that health care costs rank among Americans' top personal economic problems, and their struggles to deal with those costs have affected both their financial well-being and their family's health care. Conducted by the Foundation's public opinion researchers, the poll probes into the economic concerns facing Americans and the ways they have dealt with the cost of health care.  MORE >>

Kaiser Study on Medicare Premium Support Assumes Seniors Would Not Choose Lower Prices

"The Kaiser Family Foundation just released a study that grossly misrepresents the premium-support model of Medicare reform and apparently misunderstands normal market dynamics and the differences between efficiency, choice, and higher premiums. The Kaiser study assumes that an entire class of Americans -- senior citizens -- is insensitive to price.... Premium support encourages intense competition that will change premiums and hold down costs. The larger impact is that seniors would have a choice of the health options they want, while creating needed savings for themselves and the federal government."

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Kaiser September Health Tracking Poll Finds Health Care Ranks Behind Economy as Election Issue Among Independent Voters (PDF)

Excerpt: The September poll, the tenth in a series designed and analyzed by the Foundation's public opinion research team, also examines the voters' specific health care issue interests and perceptions of the major presidential candidates' positions on health care and reform.  MORE >>

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 -- October 2008 (PDF)

Excerpt: The final Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 finds more people are reporting problems with health care bills, and paying for health care retains a solid hold on the public's list of their top economic concerns. About one in three Americans now report their family has had problems paying medical bills in the past year, up from about a quarter saying the same two years ago. Almost one in five (18%) of Americans report household problems with medical bills amounting to more than $1,000 in the past year.  MORE >>

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Non-Group Enrollees, March 2018

"This report examines people's experiences with the current health insurance market focusing on individuals who currently have health insurance they purchased themselves ... In the first half of 2017, 10.1 million people had health insurance that they purchased through the ACA exchanges or marketplaces. For comparison, the report also examines individuals ages 18-64 without health insurance ('uninsured') as well as those who get their insurance through their employer ('employer-sponsored insurance')."  MORE >>

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, February 2014

"[T]hose who are most likely to be customers in the [ACA's] new insurance exchanges (the uninsured and those who purchase their own coverage) are more likely to prefer less costly plans with narrow networks over more expensive plans with broader networks. Narrow network plans are a tougher sell among those with employer coverage, who tend to pay less of their health care costs directly since their employers pick up much of the cost."  MORE >>

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: January 1 ACA Implementation Didn't Register with the Public

"[E]ven after most of the ACA's major provisions took effect on January 1, a large majority of the public (62 percent) continues to believe that only 'some' provisions of the ACA have been put into place thus far. Only about one in five (19 percent) say 'most' or 'all' provisions have been implemented, up somewhat from 9 percent last March."  MORE >>

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, June 2013

"Among the public overall, 87 percent say it is 'very important' to them personally to have health insurance, 88 percent describe health insurance as 'something I need,' and two-thirds (68 percent) say insurance is worth the money it costs. Even among younger adults -- a group that many have speculated may be resistant to getting coverage under the ACA -- more than seven in ten rate having health insurance as 'very important,' and similar shares feel it is something they need and that it is worth the money. Overall, just a quarter of those ages 18-30 feel they are healthy enough to go without insurance."  MORE >>

Results from the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, March 2013

"[T]wo-thirds of the uninsured and a majority of Americans overall say they have too little information to know how the [ACA] will affect them, and that Americans' awareness of key elements of the law has declined somewhat since passage when media attention was at its height. The survey also finds that the public is not tuned into decisions states are making today about whether to expand their Medicaid program under the law and how to establish the insurance exchange marketplaces."  MORE >>

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Public Opinion Toward the ACA in the Wake the Supreme Court Decision

"When it comes to the individual mandate, the Court's verdict that the controversial provision is constitutional as a tax appears to have had little impact on opinion, with upwards of six in ten viewing the mandate unfavorably whether it is described as 'tax' or as a 'fine.' There is confusion over who will be subject to the tax penalty under the mandate: the poll finds that one in five Americans believe they will have to pay a penalty in 2014, even as experts suggest the share will be considerably smaller."  MORE >>

Kaiser Tracking Poll on Health Care Reform: January 2012

The public doubts the Supreme Court renders judgments based solely on the law. Three-quarters (75%) say they think that, in general, Justices let their own ideological views influence their decisions while 17 percent say they usually decide cases based on legal analysis without regard to politics and ideology.  MORE >>