The Winning Health Care Message Will Be About Out of Pocket Costs April 1, 2019 Perspective Drew Altman analyzes health care messaging, concluding that its aimed mainly at activists in the base on both sides, and that the “The winning health care message will be about out of pocket costs,” in this Axios column.
Poll: Most Americans Want Congress to Prioritize Targeted Actions that Address Personal Health Care Costs; Fewer Cite Broader Reforms like Medicare-for-All and ACA Repeal as Top Priorities April 24, 2019 News Release Most Do Not Want the Supreme Court to Overturn the ACA or its Pre-Existing Conditions Protections When it comes to tackling pressing health care issues, incremental actions to address personal health care costs take precedence over broader, more partisan reforms for most Americans, according to the latest KFF Health Tracking…
Web Briefing: Making Sense of Medicare-For-All and Other Plans to Expand Public Coverage May 21, 2019 Event This web briefing with senior policy analysts at KFF examine proposals to expand public coverage like Medicare-for-all and their implications for the nation’s health care system.
State Actions to Improve the Affordability of Health Insurance in the Individual Market July 17, 2019 Issue Brief A number of states have taken steps to provide consumers with more affordable coverage options in the individual market, including the marketplaces. Some states are implementing strategies that lower premiums by building on, and increasing the stability of the individual market, while other states are expanding the availability of lower cost coverage sold outside the marketplaces that does not comply with ACA standards—an approach that could increase marketplace premiums further. This brief examines these different approaches and discusses the implications of state policy choices.
Medicare-for-All Would Eliminate Most or All of Medicaid, But No One Is Talking About It July 18, 2019 Perspective In this Axios column, Drew Altman explores the large implications of eliminating Medicaid in a Medicare-for-all system—an issue that has not received much attention in the current debate.
What’s The Role of Private Health Insurance Today and Under Medicare-for-all and Other Public Option Proposals? July 30, 2019 Issue Brief This brief examines the role private insurers play in providing health coverage for Americans today in employer plans and the individual market, as well as in Medicare and Medicaid, and how that would likely change under Medicare-for-all and other proposals.
The Democratic Debates Suffer from a Nasty Case of Plan-itis August 1, 2019 Perspective In The Washington Post op-ed “The Democratic Debates Suffer from a Nasty Case of Plan-itis,” Drew Altman says the primary debates are not serving voters well by focusing on details of candidates’ health care plans rather than the fundamental differences between them.
Workers Aren’t So Sure “Medicare for All” Would Raise Their Wages September 18, 2019 Perspective Drew Altman’s latest Axios column dives into an issue raised in a Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders exchange. In a Medicare-for-all system employers could reap large savings from not having to provide workers health care coverage, but do workers trust that those savings will be passed to them in higher wages?
Employer-based Coverage is Unaffordable for Low-wage Workers September 26, 2019 Perspective In this Axios column, Drew Altman digs into 2019 data on employer-provided health coverage and explains why employer coverage is often unaffordable for lower wage workers.
Voters Aren’t Buying Trump’s Promises of a Health Care Plan October 14, 2019 Perspective Drew Altman showcases new KFF polling on the public’s views of President Trump’s promise that he will have a “phenomenal” health care plan and protect Medicare, and analyzes what it means for health care politics.
