Kaiser Family Foundation

President-elect Donald Trump has a chance to improve the lives of every American family. read more >

The increase has employers scrambling to find ways to curb costs, including choosing plans with higher deductibles or turning to self-insurance. read more >

Act 575 gives automatic approval in many cases for procedures and drugs ordered by physicians who have achieved a 90% standard on previous approvals from insurance providers. read more >

Health care, including costs, is the second-most frequently mentioned priority. read more >

The Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker estimated earlier this month that more than 90,000 COVID-19 deaths since June 2021 likely would have been prevented with vaccinations. read more >

More than 2,900 U.S. health care workers have died in the COVID-19 pandemic as of Dec. 23, a figure that is much higher than that reported by the government. read more >

In the second quarter of 2020, health services spending fell by 8.6% compared with the second quarter of 2019. read more >

After dropping dramatically with passage of the Affordable Care Act, the number of uninsured nonelderly Americans began to rise starting in 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation said in a report earlier this month. read more >

Eager to be shed of Obamacare once and for all? Be careful what you wish for. read more >

With medical marijuana expected to boom into a $100 million-a-year business in Arkansas within a year or two, medical clinics specializing in marijuana certifications are cropping up to handle the rush. read more >

Spending on hospitals and physician services accounted for 53% of U.S. health spending in 2017. read more >

Someday our federal lawmakers will have the luxury of turning their attention away from impeachment and back to matters of life and death. One of those is health insurance. read more >

The United States spends more per person on health care than similarly wealthy countries: $10,224 per person in 2017. That was 28% higher than Switzerland, the next highest spender per capita. read more >

The average annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health insurance reached $19,616 in 2018, an increase of 5 percent. read more >

The Affordable Care Act has never gained the popular support that Democrats hoped. But neither has it been as deeply unpopular as Republicans believed it would be when they spent years promising to repeal “Obamacare” and possibly to replace it. read more >

Health care is No. 2 among the public’s top three concerns as the United States nears the 2018 midterm elections, according to the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. read more >

In their attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republicans are proposing deep cuts to Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor. read more >

On the annual checkup of hospitals, 61 out of the 86 hospitals on this year’s list of the state’s largest hospitals and medical centers — 71 percent — reported making money. That compares with 62 percent on the list that ran in 2013, just before the main features of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act took effect. read more >

The average employee contribution to the premium for family coverage for employer-based health insurance in Arkansas was $3,609 in 2014, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. That put Arkansas at No. 48 among the 50 states and the District of Columbia. read more >