Can Democrats Make the Medicaid and ACA Cuts Their Winning Political Issue Before People Feel the Cuts?
Tracking Health Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Law
The 2025 budget reconciliation legislation, signed into law on July 4, includes several provisions related to health. Our summary describes how the new law will affect Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Health Savings Accounts.
Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs
This data note reviews our recent polling data that finds that Americans struggle to afford many aspects of health care, including disproportionate shares of uninsured adults, Black and Hispanic adults and those with lower incomes.
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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Digesting Trump’s Big Budget Law
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Watch: She’s at High Risk of Breast Cancer. She Moved, and Her Screening Costs Soared.
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The OB-GYN Workforce and Marketplace Networks
This brief looks at OB-GYNs in the U.S., finding that there were 38 practicing OB-GYNs per 100,000 women in the United States, with higher ratios in metro counties (41) than in rural counties (13) in 2021-2022.
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States Expand Access to Ivermectin as Cancer Myths Continue
This volume of The Monitor examines unsupported claims about ivermectin; the promotion of unproven “detox” supplements in response to falsehoods about the spike protein from the COVID-19 virus and vaccine; the unsubstantiated claim that byproducts from medication abortion pills contaminate the water supply; and the renewed debate over ADHD diagnoses and treatments.
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Fraud in Marketplace Enrollment, Eligibility: Five Things to Know
This brief evaluates what is currently known about fraud and abuse in the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, including how the final Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Rule and proposed budget reconciliation legislation would change existing Marketplace enrollment and eligibility standards.
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Beyond the Data: A Column by Drew Altman
In his regular Beyond the Data columns, President and CEO Drew Altman discusses what the data, polls, and journalism produced by KFF mean for policy and for people.