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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One or Two Insurers Dominate Most Medicare Advantage Markets
Enrollment in most Medicare Advantage markets is highly concentrated among a few firms, dampening incentives for insurers to compete to attract and retain enrollees through better benefits or lower costs. Our analysis shares a look at the latest market concentration data.
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Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Review: Status of PEPFAR
As Congress considers $400 million in cuts to PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, ahead of a July 18 deadline, we provide background about the program, share the current status, and highlight the impact of PEPFAR on various services and outcomes.
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Demand for 988 Continues to Grow at Third Anniversary
This policy watch examines 988 on its third anniversary, drawing from the latest Lifeline data available through May 2025 and suicide death data from CDC WONDER for the period 2013 to 2023. 988 received 16.5 million contacts since its launch in July 2022, including 11.2 million calls, 2.9 million texts, and 2.4 million chats.
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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.