Kaiser Family Foundation

Nursing: Health Exchange Paper Upon exploration of the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) website, different levels of health insurance were researched, explored, and evaluated. In the Health Insurance Marketplace, insurance plans are separated into a total of four metal categories. They include bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. In this paper I will examine each level of insurance offered and adequately summarize the respective insurance level. Assessing the benefits and drawbacks of all available

employers have been steadily rising for years. Overall, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates a 58% increase in total premiums over the last ten years. When examining the dollar amounts that workers contribute, the average annual contributions for single and family coverage for 2016 are $1,129 and $5,277 respectively. Finally, between 2006 and 2016 covered workers’ average dollar contribution to family coverage has increased 78% (Exhibit A) (Kaiser, 2016). At the same time, reports demonstrating quality

After reading the Kaiser Family Foundation summary on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, state why or why not you believe the act should remain in law, or which pieces should be reversed. Then describe two pieces of the act that you were unaware was part of the act and how that may affect you as a citizen. The affordable care Act became law in 2010 and expected to bring healthcare to most Americans at an affordable rate. The law requires all citizens and legal residents to be covered

In our society, the increasing cost of goods and services as time passes by is not a surprise at all. What surprised me the most after reading about the health benefits of employees in the Kaiser Family Foundation 2013 is the very steep rise in the price of health insurance premiums and deductibles while having a decreased extent of coverage. In a matter of a decade, there was a 147% increase in worker contribution and 114% increase in premiums (Estes, Chapman, Dodd, Hollister, & Harrington, 2013)

onto the states (North Carolina Medical Society, 2017). Overall Approach The Affordable Care Act requires every citizen to have health insurance, therefore no matter what; health care costs are cheaper when receiving care (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Headquarters, 2013). The Affordable Care Act mainly focuses on helping the funding for individuals and ensures that everyone has the assistance that they need. Through this act, small businesses and individuals have the opportunity to compare

it difficult to afford it (Kaiser Family Foundation 2013). Those who failed to obtain health insurance would essentially have to pay a penalty tax. Additionally, eventually businesses of a certain size would also have to offer insurance options to employees. To assist those who could not afford health insurance, the ACA also formed state-based American Health Benefit Exchanges, which would provide subsidies, cost-sharing credits, and assistance to individuals/families with income between 133-400%

Introduction Kaiser Family Foundation defines readmissions as an event where a patient is admitted to a hospital within specified time period after being discharged from an initial hospitalization, for example, in case of Medicare, this time period is set at 30 days (Boccuti & Casillas. 2015). High hospital readmission rates have been a problem for many years in US healthcare system, however in recent years intense measures and practices to reduce avoidable re-hospitalization coupled with awareness

seeking help for their children have turned to programs collectively knows as the “troubled-teen industry.” The troubled-teen industry arose in various forms, inserting its self into an environment in which mental health service for children and their families were not available or inadequate. In response to questionable advertising

Kaiser Permanente: An Integrated Delivery Health care System Abstract Kaiser Permanente is a managed care facility that provides services across the health care continuum. Over the years the organization has continually made efforts toward improvements since it was first founded in 1945. These improvements generate a series of successes that set Kaiser apart from similar organizations. But, just as any health care delivery system, Kaiser has faced challenges in the past, present and

lifetime limits on coverage, rescinding coverage and preexisting condition exclusions; coverage of a minimum set of essential preventative benefits; and a requirement that insurance companies spend at least 80% of premiums on medical costs (Kaiser Family Foundation and Alliance for Health Care Reform, 2012). In theory, this should increase the