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1.  About Kaiser Health News
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Link to more items from this source
May 6, 2009
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.
2.  Kaiser Health Care Public Opinion Tracking Poll -- February 2009
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Link to more items from this source
Feb. 25, 2009
Excerpt: The first Kaiser Health Tracking Poll of 2009 finds the public is increasingly worried about the affordability and availability of care, with many postponing or skipping treatments due to cost in the past year and a notable minority forced into serious financial straits due to medical bills. [The target page has links to the News Release, Key Findings, Chartpack, and Toplines.]
3.  ABC News/Kaiser Family Foundation/USA Today Health Care in America 2006 Survey
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Link to more items from this source
Oct. 16, 2006
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.
4.  Promising Better, Cheaper Care, Kaiser Permanente's National Expansion Faces Wide Skepticism
KFF Health News Link to more items from this source
Aug. 15, 2023
"Industry experts believe KP's aim is to build a big enough presence across the country to effectively compete with players like Amazon, Aetna CVS Health, Walmart Health, and UnitedHealth Group in providing health care for large corporate customers.... But it's not clear how KP will be able to bring its model, in which facilities and doctors receive a monthly per-member fee for all care, to markets where it doesn't own an integrated system of physicians, hospitals, and health plans, as it does in California."
5.  A Scorecard of What The Health Law Has Delivered, Or Not
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
Mar. 23, 2012
"Kaiser Health News consulted the agencies implementing the law to track how some of these new programs are going, and compared that data to the original projections of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Obama administration."
6.  The Average Employer Health Plan Now Costs $15,745, and That's Kind of Good News
The Washington Post; subscription may be required Link to more items from this source
Sept. 11, 2012
"Workers' contributions to their health insurance premiums have grown by 180 percent since 1999. Earnings, meanwhile, have grown just a quarter as fast. The average health insurance plan offered by a large company now costs $15,745. That's the bad news. But there's also some good news buried in this report: Health insurance premiums rose by 4 percent between 2011 and 2012. That's not nothing, but it's a whole lot less than the double-digit premium increases that were common about a decade ago. In fact, since 2004, the Kaiser Family Foundation has not seen any double-digit increases at all. Just like national health expenditures, employer-based premiums are seeing a cost-growth slowdown."
7.  Tracking Health Reform Law Court Challenges
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Link to more items from this source
June 2, 2011
More than two dozen federal lawsuits are seeking to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. [Kaiser Health News] is tracking the status of the lawsuits, providing information on the plaintiffs, judges, decisions and pending appeals, with links to in-depth articles, KHN's news summaries, and related documents.
8.  Several News Organizations Publish Explainers and Fact Checkers on Health Reform Bills
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Link to more items from this source
Aug. 31, 2009
Excerpt: The Los Angeles Times provides a Q&A that dissects the costs and various proposals of the pending Democratic healthcare bills. 'The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that after revenue-generating provisions and savings in Medicare and Medicaid, the House bill would add $239 billion to the deficit over 10 years.' The Times also examines which plans qualify as so-called Cadillac plans and how the government might 'squeeze savings out of Medicare without cutting patient services' (Geiger and Oliphant, 8/31). The Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.) has 'a look at the differentiating factors between the main bill, the House Tri-Committee bill commonly known as H.B. 3200, and various proposals and other bills on the table' (8/29).
9.  Health Premiums Rise a Relatively Modest 4 Percent, Study Finds
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
Sept. 11, 2012
"Health insurance premiums rose 4 percent for family coverage this year, well below last year's increase and half the 8 percent average of the previous decade -- largely because people used less health care in an uncertain economy. Family plan premiums hit $15,745 on average, while premiums for single employees rose to $5,615, according to a survey of employers ... by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust."
10.  Nine Experts Weigh in on Plan to Replace Public Option in Health Bill
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Link to more items from this source
Dec. 14, 2009
"Trying to apply the [Federal Employee Health Benefits Program] model to expand insurance coverage has been suggested before. Kaiser Health News staff writers contacted health policy experts about the advantages and disadvantages of such a plan and whether it would help control costs. Here are edited excerpts from those interviews[.]"
11.  Will Congress Bring Sky-High Air Ambulance Bills Down to Earth?
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
Sept. 27, 2018
"Kaiser Health News and NPR received more than a dozen bills from people around the country on the hook for medevac helicopter rides that ranged from $28,000 to $97,000.... If an air ambulance service is not part of a patient's insurance network, the operator can charge the patient for the portion of the bill the insurance company won't cover ... [Air ambulance companies] are regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration. By law, states cannot set rules for them. That has meant they haven't been required to participate in insurance networks, their prices are not capped, and they can charge patients the balance of the bills even after insurance has paid."
12.  State Spending on Consumer Assistance Could Have 'Huge Impact' on Marketplace Enrollment
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
May 5, 2013
"The wide variation in spending to hire and train people to provide consumer assistance in the first year of the new marketplaces could have a major impact on how many people actually get coverage under Obamacare, experts say. Yet states with some of the nation's highest uninsured rates, such as Florida and Texas, are getting far less federal money per uninsured resident than states with low rates, such as Maryland, Vermont and Rhode Island, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis."
13.  Public Easily Swayed on Attitudes About Health Law
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
Dec. 18, 2014
"Six in 10 respondents to the monthly tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation ... said they generally favor the requirement that firms with more than 100 workers pay a fine if they do not offer workers coverage. But minimal follow-up information can have a major effect on their viewpoint, the poll found. For example, when people who support the 'employer mandate' were told that employers might respond to the requirement by moving workers from full-time to part time, support dropped from 60 percent to 27 percent. And when people who disapprove of the policy were told that most large employers will not be affected because they already provide insurance, support surged to 76 percent."
14.  Moody's Says Latest Federal Requests and Rules Put New Pressure on Health Insurers
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
Dec. 16, 2013
"The latest changes 'impose additional financial risks' on [insurance] companies, Moody's said ... The guidelines disclosed Thursday [December 12] are 'credit negative,' meaning they're not great news for people who have lent money to insurers. The timing is 'especially troublesome' because it gave insurers less than three weeks to change procedures and computer programs to accommodate the changes, Moody's said. That 'will very likely cause more confusion for individuals insured under these policies,' the report added."
15.  Health Insurers Tune In to Twitter for Customer Service
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
Aug. 8, 2013
"[I]nsurance companies are increasing their social media presence in an effort to amp up their customer service and capitalize on a platform that can serve to mediate, inform and advertise. The accounts also help companies manage their brands and do quick damage control on complaints aired in this public sphere. The accounts, which include @askanthem, @cignaquestions and several accounts for various Blue Cross Blue Shield companies around the country, are often separate from larger company accounts that focus on marketing and sharing relevant health care news."
16.  Tax Break Can Help in Advance with Health Insurance Premiums -- But There's a Catch
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
July 10, 2013
"Instead of waiting until tax time to claim the credit for the premiums on their return, people can apply to get it in advance, based on their estimated income for 2014. In that case, the state health exchange, or marketplace, will estimate the tax credit and send it directly to the insurer. But there's a catch. When April 15 rolls around, the Internal Revenue Service will reconcile the amount of the advance payments sent to the insurer with the taxpayer's actual income. If a person's income is higher than the estimate, the taxpayer will have to repay the difference. But there's some good news, too. If a person's income is lower than estimated, the taxpayer will get a credit."
17.  Meet a New Breed of Medical Professional: The Health Coach
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
July 23, 2012
"Health coaches are a new kind of health professional, and it's their job to help people make those easy-to-say, hard-to-do behavioral changes that promote good health -- getting enough exercise, eating a balanced diet, managing stress.... Health coaches are still rare in the medical profession. But they are becoming more popular as chronic and often preventable diseases like Type 2 diabetes consume more and more health care dollars."
18.  Health Law Implementation: Actuarial Value, Health Disparities Draw Attention
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
Feb. 27, 2012
The Department of Health and Human Services offered a bulletin last week to provide guidance on how insurers should calculate actuarial value. Also, some health policy experts are beginning to question whether the health law's quality provisions might exacerbate the nation's health disparities.
19.  Achieving Mental Health Parity: Slow Going Even in the 'Pace Car' State
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
Aug. 13, 2015
"[The California Department of Managed Health Care] last year began requiring insurers under its watch to show -- at least on paper -- that they were complying with federal parity law. The results were not encouraging: Of 26 managed care insurers, from Aetna to Western Health Advantage, zero were able to prove that they were fully in compliance. Most filed incomplete or flawed documents, state officials said."
20.  Californians Favor Tougher Rules on Health Insurance Premium Hikes
Kaiser Health News Link to more items from this source
Aug. 21, 2014
"Proposition 45 would give California's insurance commissioner the power to veto health insurance rate increases. Health insurance rates in the state are currently overseen by the Department of Managed Health Care and the California Department of Insurance. Insurance companies are required to submit proposed rate increases for review each year by state regulators, who may declare rates unreasonable but cannot block them from going into effect."
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