Back in 2011 the Census Bureau started releasing an alternative measure of income known as the supplemental poverty measure. It takes into account things like government in-kind benefits and necessary out-of-pocket medical costs. The Kaiser Family Foundation has done a new analysis based on this data and found poverty among seniors is significantly worse than [...]

Support for the Affordable Care Act has dropped to its lowest level in years, according the latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll. The poll found only 35 percent have a favorable opinion of the law, while 40 percent have an unfavorable opinion. This is the lowest level of support since 2011. From Kaiser: At least [...]

The recent slowdown in health care spending can only be partly attributed to the economy downturn according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Over the past several years health care spending has grown noticeably slower than it has over the last several decades. The big question though is whether this slowdown is [...]

This weekend it will have been three years since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Despite some optimistic claims that its popularity would soar after its passage, public support for the law remains weak. The latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll found 37 percent of Americans support the law while 40 percent oppose [...]

The Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act made the expansion of Medicaid optional for states. Already a few Republicans governors have said they don’t plan to take part. A new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation found if states do take part in the expansion it will requires states to only modestly increase [...]

Turning Medicare into a voucher program or a “premium support” program, as Rep. Paul Ryan would describe his plan for Medicare, is highly unpopular with basically all segments of the American people, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation poll. The poll found 58 percent want to keep Medicare as is, including 55 percent of Republicans. [...]

The country is fairly evenly divided on the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act. According to a Pew Research poll 40 percent of people disapprove of the ruling, while 36 percent approve. Not surprisingly there is a huge partisan divide: Republicans strongly disapprove and Democrats strongly approve of it. A plurality of Independents, [...]

Now that the Supreme Court has made it easier for states to choose not to take part in the Medicaid expansion provision of the Affordable Care Act, some Republican governors have already started seizing on this latitude. In just the few days since the ruling came down, both South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) and [...]

The Supreme Court’s historic six hours of oral argument about the Affordable Care Act didn’t significantly change public opinion about the law. According the Kaiser Family Foundation Poll the country still remains evenly divided about the whole law. The poll found that 42% favor the law while 43% hold an unfavorable opinion of it. This [...]

The American people continue to strongly dislike the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, and the intensity of this opposition has only increased. According to Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll only 32 percent of the country has a favorable opinion of the mandate, while 64 view it unfavorably. Impressively a 54% majority of the [...]