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This State and Federal Reproductive Rights Litigation tracker aggregates information about ongoing litigation regarding abortion bans and restrictions, FDA approval of Mifepristone (an abortion pill) and other federal regulations.
This State and Federal Reproductive Rights Litigation tracker aggregates information about ongoing litigation regarding abortion bans and restrictions, FDA approval of Mifepristone (an abortion pill) and other federal regulations.
This analysis documents average deductibles for Affordable Care Act Marketplace plans available on Healthcare.gov in 2026 for all metal tiers, including silver plans after cost-sharing reductions are applied, as well as trend data since 2014.
This Healthy System Tracker analysis, authored by KFF and the Peterson Center on Healthcare, examines remote monitoring technologies, identifying the types of patients and health conditions they serve and what is spent on these services.
Authored by KFF’s Jen Kates and Boston University’s Debbie Stenoien and Allyala Nandakumar as well as independent consultant Michael Ruffner, this post for ThinkGlobalHealth identifies and examines several key issues and questions that lie ahead for the America First Global Health Strategy — the first roadmap for what comes next for the President's Emergency Plan…
This brief provides estimates of how $37.5 billion of the $50 billion rural health fund could be distributed across states if all states are approved for funding. Awards from the $37.5 billion could range from an estimated $550 million (in Rhode Island) to just over $1 billion (in Texas) over five years if all states were approved for funding. These differences are relatively modest compared to the wide variation across states in rural health needs.
As the government shutdown continues, this poll finds that public support remains high for extending the enhanced ACA tax credits set to expire at the end of the year. Three quarters of the public favor of extending them, though support among Republicans has dipped since September. Most Democrats want a Congressional budget deal to include an extension of the tax credits.
As the government shutdown continues, public support remains high for extending the enhanced ACA tax credits set to expire at the end of the year, with three quarters (74%) of the public in favor of extending them, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds.
In one of his occasional columns about “us,” President and CEO, Dr. Drew Altman, addresses how KFF, which combines policy research, polling and journalism in one organization, operates and why we’re called KFF today, addressing occasional confusion about our name, how we work and how to describe KFF.
After Tuesday's elections, it is becoming increasingly difficult to disentangle concerns about the economy and concerns about health care as costs become the most pressing health care issue for voters.
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