The Debate About Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Begins to Emerge (Finally)
The Latest on the Medicaid Financing Debate
What Potential Medicaid Cuts Could Mean for States and Their Residents
KFF estimates that $880 billion in potential Medicaid cuts would represent 29% of states’ spending on Medicaid. Federal cuts of this size equate to 6% of state taxes per resident nationwide or 19% of state education spending per pupil, highlighting the tough choices states would face if they wanted to maintain current Medicaid policy with less federal funding.
10 Things to Know About Rural Hospitals
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Covid Worsened Shortages of Doctors and Nurses. Five Years On, Rural Hospitals Still Struggle.
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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': On Autism, It’s the Secretary’s Word vs. CDC’s
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Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.’s NIH Slashed Science Funding Across States That Backed Trump
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Title X Clinics Affected by Administration’s Funding Freeze
Title X provides federal funding to support clinics across the country to provide comprehensive family planning services to low-income and uninsured individuals. On April 2, 2025, almost one in five of the current Title X grantees received notification that their year 4 funding of a 5-year project period would be temporarily withheld.
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How Part of Drug Price EO Could Limit Medicare Drug Prices Negotiations
President Trump’s executive order directs the Secretary of HHS to work with Congress to implement a change in law to delay negotiation of so-called “small molecule” drugs under the IRA’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program for an additional 4 years. We analyze how many of the drugs previously selected for negotiation would not have been eligible if this policy had been in place at the time.
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Health Wonk Shop: Understanding Fraud, Abuse in Medicaid
How do state Medicaid programs ensure program integrity and what does it take to go after fraud? How substantial is fraud and abuse relative to total Medicaid spending? Join KFF’s Larry Levitt and three experts at 12 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 24, for a discussion that aims to answer these questions and more.
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Beyond the Data, a Column by Drew Altman
In his regular Beyond the Data columns, CEO Drew Altman discusses what the data, polls, and journalism produced by KFF mean for policy and for people.