Health Wonk Shop Recap: Consolidation and Integration in Health Care
Larry Levitt and three experts discussed the motivations behind horizontal and vertical consolidation in health care, its potential to lower or raise costs, the implications for patients and payers, and how policy makers could respond.
vaccines
Tracking Polling on Health Information and Trust
KFF’s new interactive polling dashboard draws on more than a dozen surveys to show trends in trust in health information, attitudes toward vaccines, and use of news, social media, and AI for health-related information.
Prior Authorization
Poll: People View Prior Authorization as Greatest Burden in Navigating the Health System
About 7 in 10 insured adults say prior authorizations are burdensome, and a third choose prior authorizations as their single biggest health care burden. Read the news release →
new and noteworthy
Medicaid Managed Care Reporting, Transparency: Managed Care Program Annual Reports
This brief describes the Managed Care Program Annual Report, which examines state managed care programs and includes plan-level data. The reports are intended to improve managed care program monitoring, oversight, and transparency.
The Mexico City Policy: An Explainer
Explore an overview of the Mexico City Policy, which, when in effect, requires foreign NGOs to certify that they will not “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning” using funds from any source (including non-U.S. funds) as a condition for receiving U.S. government global health assistance.
ACA Marketplace Enrollment is Down in 2026 — But All of the Data Isn’t in Yet
This brief explains the limitations of early data in understanding the impact of the expiration of enhanced premiums tax credit on ACA enrollment. It also provides a timeline of when more complete data will become available.
Tracking the Public’s Views on the ACA
This interactive tool tracks public opinion on the Affordable Care Act, from the inception of the law to the present. It highlights key moments when views shifted and trends based on party identification, income, age, gender, and race/ethnicity.
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