KFF/AP Survey Probes Rural Voters’ Increasing Anxieties About the Rising Cost of Living, Including Health Costs, Heading into the Midterm Elections

Economic Frustration Tests Trump’s Standing With Rural Voters, New KFF-AP Poll Finds

Read more from KFF Health News and Associated Press journalists.

Read the KFF/AP Rural Voters Survey News Release

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Public Views on Prescription Drug Costs: Regulation, Affordability and TrumpRx

Key Facts About Medicare Drug Price Negotiation

This brief provides information about several key aspects of the Medicare drug price negotiation program, with a focus on the 2028 implementation year.

Analysis: Prices for Many Brand-Name TrumpRx Drugs Are Cheaper than the Average Price in Other Wealthy Countries, But Are Almost as Likely To Be More Expensive

Consumers who buy brand-name prescription drugs without an available generic or biosimilar at the prices available through the new TrumpRx website are about as likely to pay more as pay less for those drugs relative to the publicly listed prices available in other comparatively wealthy countries, a new KFF analysis finds.

TrumpRx: What’s the Value for Customers?

This brief examines issues that may impact consumers, especially those with private insurance, who access drug discounts through TrumpRx.

From Larry Levitt: Why Do We Hear More About High Drug Prices Than About Hospital Prices?

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The Latest Health Policy Issues for the Election

Costs and Other Barriers to Care Can Worsen Health For Adults With Multiple or Complex Health Conditions

Survey: Health Care Experiences of Adults with Multiple or Complex Health Conditions

KFF’s Business of Health: AI — To Regulate, or Not to Regulate?

Review of Medicaid Immigrant Eligibility Changes

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KFF 2026 Women’s Health Survey

For more than two decades, the KFF Women’s Health Survey has provided a nationally representative look at women’s experiences with health care in the United States. Explore the latest findings →

Women’s Health Care Affordability Challenges

As health care costs dominate the national political conversation, our 2026 KFF Women’s Health Survey shows the toll those costs are taking on women. Our new nationally representative survey of women and men ages 18–64 finds costs remain a major barrier for women, specifically — causing everything from delayed care to rationed medications to cuts in spending on basic needs.

2026 Women’s Health Survey: Accessing Health Information Online

Survey Explores How Women Navigate Contraceptive Information

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Are Health Insurers to Blame for Our Health System Problems?

Political leaders on both sides point fingers at health insurers for high costs and patient frustrations. How much blame do insurers, in fact, deserve for our health system’s problems? This three-part video series from KFF considers this question and the complicated answer, exploring what’s driving rising insurance premiums, whether insurers provide value, and who we trust to decide what gets covered and at what price. Watch and share →