KFF Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance
A 2023 KFF survey of adults with health insurance found that roughly 6 in 10 insured adults experience problems when using insurance.
Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs
KFF polling offers a clear look at the financial pressures Americans face in the health system, from delaying care to medical debt.
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The ‘Great Healthcare Plan’ Leaves Open Questions for People with Pre-existing Conditions
President Trump announced a health care framework that leaves open key questions, including those about out-of-pocket costs, premiums, federal spending, and health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
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President Trump announced a health care framework that leaves open key questions, including those about out-of-pocket costs, premiums, federal spending, and health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. more
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While codifying most-favored-nation drug pricing could be helpful for bringing more transparency to these arrangements and guaranteeing that drug companies will deliver on what they’ve promised, policymakers would need substantially more information to turn these backroom voluntary deals into law. more
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By suggesting mifepristone poses a danger to women who use it, anti-abortion senators are likely to create more confusion that could further erode the public’s confidence in the abortion pill despite its decades-long safety record. more
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From Drew Altman: Trump Has No Health Plan, He Has the Art of the Health Care Deal
KFF CEO Dr. Drew Altman analyzes President Trump’s “make a deal” approach to health care. He explains that while the president doesn’t have a health reform plan, or even “concepts of a plan,” or a replacement for the ACA, he does have a distinctive set of tactics that features one-off deals with the health care industry that are more like “health policy by transaction.” He writes that the deals “even do some good,” but “don’t change the long-term incentives of the health care companies that participate in the deals,” and a big question is “whether they have staying power.”
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Medicaid Coverage of and Spending on GLP-1s
This brief discusses the current landscape of Medicaid GLP-1 coverage and examines recent trends in Medicaid prescriptions and gross spending on GLP-1s.
State Efforts to Fill in Federal Funding Gaps for Planned Parenthood
This brief examines efforts in 11 states to fill in funding gaps created by the 2025 federal budget reconciliation law, which prohibits federal Medicaid funding for reproductive-health care services provided by Planned Parenthood and other organizations that also provide abortion care.
AI Health Tools Raise Safety Concerns
A new features from AI companies, like ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare, aim to provide personalized health guidance, but may still provide wrong or dangerous health advice. And, as the U.S. experiences a severe flu season, a vaccine-strain mismatch may be contributing to misconceptions that flu vaccines are ineffective.
Potential Implications of New Medicaid Data Sharing Agreement Between CMS, ICE
This issue brief provides an overview of a new data sharing agreement for CMS to share Medicaid data with ICE and its potential implications for health care access and data privacy.
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