Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In addition to medical expense insurance, "health insurance" may also refer to insurance covering disability or long-term nursing or custodial care needs. Different health insurance provides different levels of financial protection and the scope of coverage can vary widely, with more than 40% of insured individuals reporting that their plans do ...
The RAND Health Insurance Experiment (RAND HIE) was an experimental study from 1974 to 1982 of health care costs, utilization and outcomes in the United States, which assigned people randomly to different kinds of plans and followed their behavior.
A 2023 analysis by the Commonwealth Fund, a health care research nonprofit, identified five key components of excess health spending in the United States, compared with other affluent nations:
U.S. insurance health, life, property, and car insurance industry related political contributions from 1990 to 2010. The health and insurance sectors gave nearly $170 million to House and Senate members in 2007 and 2008, with 54% going to Democrats, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets. The shift in parties was even more pronounced during ...
The first HMOs in the U.S., such as Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, and the Health Insurance Plan (HIP) in New York, were "staff-model" HMOs, which owned their own health care facilities and employed the doctors and other health care professionals who staffed them. The name health maintenance organization stems from the idea that the ...
Health insurance coverage is provided by several public and private sources in the United States. Analyzing these statistics is challenging due to multiple survey methods [12] and persons with multiple sources of insurance, such as those with coverage under both an employer plan and Medicaid.
The rate of increase in both health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs have declined in the employer-based market. For example, premiums increased at an annual rate of 5.6% from 2000-2010, but 3.1% from 2010-2016. An estimated 155 million persons under the age 65 were covered under health insurance plans provided by their employers in 2016.
Healthcare reform in the United States has had a long history.Reforms have often been proposed but have rarely been accomplished. In 2010, landmark reform was passed through two federal statutes: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed March 23, 2010, [1] [2] and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (), which amended the PPACA and became law on March ...