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On October 8, 2024, Vice President Harris has proposed to expand Medicare to provide home care to help families who are struggling with the costs of long-term care. If enacted, this would be the first major expansion of Medicare since the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 that added a prescription drug benefit to the program.

In the U.S., Hispanic/Latino people have been disproportionately affected by HIV since the epidemic’s beginning, and that disparity has deepened over time. Hispanic/Latino people represent a larger share of HIV diagnoses and people estimated to be living with HIV relative to their population size. This fact sheet provides an overview of the impact of HIV on Hispanic/Latino people in the U.S.

A review of the 2025 Medicare Advantage plans available for individual enrollment shows that the total number of plans declined by 7% (from 3,959 to 3,699). The average Medicare beneficiary will have the option of 34 Medicare Advantage prescription drug (MA-PD) plans in 2025, just 2 fewer than the 36 options available in 2024. Since 2018, the number of plans available to the average beneficiary has doubled.

This Medicaid waiver tracker page aggregates tracking information on pending and approved Section 1115 Medicaid waivers. It includes resources such as an overview figure, detailed waiver topic tables, and explanatory briefs.

From Drew Altman Drew Altman is president and chief executive officer of KFF, a position he has held for more than 30 years since founding the modern-day KFF organization in the 1990s. He is a leading expert on national health policy issues and an innovator in health journalism and the…

The KFF Survey of Women Voters examines differing motivations, attitudes, and experiences among women by race and ethnicity, age, and partisanship heading into the 2024 election nationally and in two battleground states, Arizona and Michigan.

This fact sheet provides an overview of U.S. government global health policy and engagement.