With policymakers debating potential changes to the tax treatment of health insurance benefit, this issue brief illustrates how families with different incomes are affected by the tax subsidies for private health insurance included in current law.

Gary Claxton, a Kaiser Family Foundation vice president, testified about state-based health reform efforts as part of the Senate Finance Committee's Prepare For Launch Health Reform Summit. His testimony examines the role of Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, as well as the way various federal laws and policies may limit innovation at the state level.

This new analysis focuses on how the age of a business influences whether a small establishment offers health insurance coverage to its employees. It is part of the Foundation's online series Snapshots: Health Care Costs.

This primer explains the role and operations of private health coverage in the United States. It discusses the fundamental aims of private coverage and sorts out the complicated web of state and federal regulations that govern it. 

Published as a Health Affairs Web Exclusive, this Kaiser Family Foundation study finds relatively few uninsured households have enough financial assets to cover the cost-sharing in consumer-driven health plans tied to Health Savings Accounts.

This analysis by Kaiser Family Foundation researchers examines employers' payroll and health care costs and examines wide variations in those costs by occupation and firm size.  It is part of the Foundation's online series, Snapshots: Health Care Costs.

This new analysis examines changes in wages and benefits since the 1960s, and how these break down over time for employers and individuals. It finds that working families may feel the impact of rising health care costs by seeing smaller increases in their paychecks. This snapshot is part of the Foundation’s online series, Snapshots: Health Care Costs. 

With some federal and state policy makers considering ways to encourage more people to purchase non-group, or individual, health care coverage, this new analysis by Kaiser Family Foundation researchers examines how often people at different income levels buy such coverage when they do not have access to employer coverage or do not obtain public coverage. 

This analysis examines the demographic and health characteristics of people who frequently visit U.S. hospital emergency departments to help understand why their utilization is so high.

This September 2007 fact sheet on health care costs presents key statistics about the growth, level and impact of rising U.S. health care costs.  It covers spending on various medical services, sources of health spending, employer-sponsored health coverage and the impact on businesses and people.