The independent source for health policy research, polling, and news.
10,061 - 10,080 of 15,237 Results
Implementation of the health law has renewed discussions of who wins, loses and gains access to health insurance. But questions persist. Here's a corrective to common misconceptions about who pays for health care.
A study says that up to 1.5 million people -- no longer tied to their jobs because of the affordability of the health insurance that comes with it -- may use the health law to leave their current jobs and start new businesses.
Hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients are being shifted into some kind of managed care this year as part of a sweeping overhaul.
About half of small businesses in Colorado are seeing double-digit premium increases under the ACA.
The former White House adviser talks about his new book and some of his surprising predictions about health care in the next decade and beyond.
No state signed more people up for health law coverage in the first health law enrollment period, but a sometimes faulty website and spotty customer service often frustrated the process.
Testosterone prescriptions in the U.S. more than tripled in the last decade, but recent studies raise serious safety and financial concerns.
There's a lot riding on these cost calculations for insurance companies, consumers and even the health law's future.
Between 2008 and 2012, multispecialty practices saw their bad debt go up 14 percent, according to a recent survey, and some have begun to change their business practices in response.
Medical debt is worrisome and embarrassing, but more importantly, it can have long-term financial consequences. Here are some tips that may be helpful to avoid or alleviate medical debt.
Despite a surge in enrollment in the two weeks before the April 15 deadline to enroll for insurance under the health law, many more Californians have not signed up.
KHN's consumer columnist says people who qualified for premium and cost-sharing subsidies but later have earnings that put them over that limit can switch to less expensive plans.
Hospitals in remote places are making tradeoffs to adopt electronic medical records. Some are joining larger systems, sacrificing their independence. Others are going it alone, carefully.
© 2026 KFF