Jeanne Pinder
“The cost of private health insurance is out of control, compared to Medicare and Medicaid,” Drew Altman of the Kaiser Family Foundation writes on Axios. “You see that clearly if you take a long-term view of recently released federal data on health spending. This is why the health care industry — not just insurers, but […]
Jeanne Pinder
“We still have an uninsured problem in the U.S., but we have a far broader health care affordability problem that hits sick people especially hard,” Drew Altman writes over at Axios. “Why it matters: It’s time to think more broadly about who’s having trouble paying for the health care they need. The combination of lack […]
Jeanne Pinder
Summary: “While the political world focuses on the Affordable Care Act, changes have been occurring for the many more Americans who get health insurance through work,” Drew Altman writes over on The Washington Wire blog at The Wall Street Journal. While I don’t agree that the debate is “missing” on this topic, as he suggests, […]
Jeanne Pinder
Summary: “People worry a lot about their health-care costs, such as the share they pay of their health premium or the size of their deductible,” Drew Altman, president and chief executive officer of the Kaiser Family Foundation, wrote in The Wall Street Journal. “But they tend to have a harder time getting their heads around […]
