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Medicaid and Upcoming State Budget Debates
Issue BriefThis brief describes current state fiscal conditions as states begin fiscal year 2027 budget debates and highlights key areas to watch for Medicaid policy changes as states respond to fiscal challenges and the 2025 reconciliation law.
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Medicaid: What to Watch in 2026
Issue BriefIn this brief on Medicaid issues to watch for 2026, KFF explores how state fiscal pressures are likely to converge with the implementation of the 2025 reconciliation law to affect Medicaid coverage, financing, and access to care over the next year, especially leading up to the midterm elections.
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Litigation Involving Reproductive Health and Rights in the Federal Courts
FeatureThis 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.
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Health Care Providers Warn of Impacts of Increased ICE Presence at Health Care Facilities
Quick TakeThe presence of ICE at hospitals and health care facilities represents a reversal in policy under the Trump administration from previous policy that had protected against enforcement in these and other “sensitive locations” like schools and places of worship.
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President Trump Proposes Codifying MFN Drug Pricing Deals But Key Details Are Missing
Quick TakeWhile codifying most-favored-nation drug pricing could be helpful for bringing more transparency to these arrangements and guaranteeing that drug companies will deliver on what they’ve promised, policymakers would need substantially more information to turn these backroom voluntary deals into law.
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Senators’ Questions About Mifepristone Could Further Spread Confusion About the Abortion Pill’s Safety Record
Quick TakeBy suggesting mifepristone poses a danger to women who use it, anti-abortion senators are likely to create more confusion that could further erode the public's confidence in the abortion pill despite its decades-long safety record.
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Potential Implications of the New Medicaid Data Sharing Agreement Between CMS and ICE
Issue BriefThis issue brief provides an overview of a new data sharing agreement for CMS to share Medicaid data with ICE and its potential implications for health care access and data privacy.
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Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions
InteractiveThis page displays an interactive map of the current status of state decisions on the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. Additional Medicaid expansion resources are listed (with links) below the map.
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Filling in the Gap in Federal Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood: State Responses
Policy WatchThis brief examines efforts in 11 states to fill in funding gaps created by the 2025 federal budget reconciliation law, which prohibits federal Medicaid funding for reproductive-health care services provided by Planned Parenthood and other organizations that also provide abortion care.