Disparities in Health and Health Care: 5 Key Questions and Answers April 21, 2023 Issue Brief Disparities in health and health care for people of color and underserved groups are longstanding challenges. This brief provides an introduction to what health and health care disparities are, why it is important to address disparities, the status of disparities today, recent federal actions to address disparities, and key issues related to addressing disparities looking ahead.
Key Facts on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) April 13, 2023 Fact Sheet This brief provides an overview of DACA and who DACA recipients are and provides estimates of health coverage, work status, and income among individuals who meet eligibility criteria for DACA.
Update on the Status of Medication Abortion and the Courts April 21, 2023 Blog This policy watch explains the April 21, 2023 United States Supreme Court’s ruling on Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, a case challening the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, the medication abortion pill.
Ending the Public Health Emergency for Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services April 19, 2023 Blog This policy watch explores the potential implications of ending the PHE for Medicaid HCBS programs.
Access Problems And Cost Concerns Of Younger Medicare Beneficiaries Exceeded Those Of Older Beneficiaries In 2019 April 3, 2023 Issue Brief Published in the journal Health Affairs, this analysis compared measures of access to care, cost concerns, and satisfaction with care for beneficiaries younger than age sixty-five versus those ages sixty-five and older, using the 2019 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.
After Dobbs, Survey Seeks to Understand Telecontraception Clients Better April 4, 2023 News Release According to a new KFF survey with a nonprobability sample of clients from four online sources of contraception, one in four clients said they got emergency contraception to have on hand because of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Additionally, more than a fifth (22%) said they…
Who Uses Telecontraception and Why? A Closer Look at Clients of Four Telecontraception Companies April 4, 2023 Issue Brief Based on the findings of a nonprobability sample of 6,000 survey respondents from four telecontraception companies, this brief presents a snapshot of telecontraception users and their reasons for using these platforms.
Q&A: Implications of the Ruling on the ACA’s Preventive Services Requirement April 4, 2023 Blog This post summarizes some of the key issues related to the U.S. District Court’s March 30 ruling in Braidwood Management v. Becerra, which imposes new limits on the government’s ability to enforce preventive service requirements nationwide.
Q & A: Implications of Two Conflicting Federal Court Rulings on the Availability of Medication Abortion and the FDA’s Authority to Regulate Drugs April 8, 2023 Blog This policy watch explains the two conflicting rulings on the provision of mifepristone issued by two separate District Courts on April 7, 2023, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA and State of Washington v. United States Food and Drug Administration.
Half of the Public Would Likely Get an Annual COVID-19 Vaccine Offered Like a Flu Shot April 3, 2023 News Release More than three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, about half (53%) the public says they would likely get an annual COVID-19 vaccine if offered similar to an annual flu shot, the latest KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor finds. This includes about a third (32%) who would be “very likely” to do…