In his latest column, Kaiser Family Foundation President Drew Altman examines the possible explanations for this year’s modest four percent increase in health insurance premiums and recent slowdown in increases in health spending and health care costs. 

This benchmark annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health coverage, including changes in premiums, employee contributions, cost-sharing policies and other relevant information.

This Health Affairs article offers a close examination of how five safety-net hospitals are preparing for health reform.

This issue brief examines states' progress in setting up the state-based health insurance exchanges through which millions of Americans are expected to purchase coverage under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) beginning in 2014.

This brief describes the subsidies that will be available under the new health reform law, including premium subsidies that would be provided in the form of tax credits, as well as other subsidies that would lower cost sharing to eligible Americans.  

The Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation discuss the recent Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the health reform law.

This policy brief describes the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act and looks ahead to the implementation of health reform now that questions about the constitutionality of the law have been resolved.

The ACA requires significant changes to guaranteed issue laws. Beginning January 1, 2014, all individual and group health plans must guarantee issue policies to all applicants, regardless of health status or other factors. This fact sheet examines guaranteed issue laws in the individual and small group markets across the nation and how the transition to 2014 will change those markets.

Rate restrictions limit how much insurance companies can vary premiums charged to individuals and businesses based on factors such as health status, age, tobacco use and gender. Currently, federal law does not place any limits on the ways that insurance companies set their premium rates. However, beginning January 1, 2014, insurance companies must meet the Affordable Care Act’s minimum premium rating rules for health plans for individuals and small businesses. This brief explains the current status and trends of rate restrictions and how these trends will change when the ACA is fully implemented.

This nationally representative survey of 500 health insurance agents and brokers working in the individual and small group markets explores their outlook on market trends and views on the Affordable Care Act (ACA).