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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…

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A virtual event and podcast series featuring conversations with experts, diving into timely health policy issues for a deeper discussion beyond the news headlines and taking questions from viewers over Zoom.

Create a custom report compiling data across health topics for a single state or multiple states. See a sample report on reported legal abortions by states and age group

This volume examines misleading claims about birth control, focusing on the mischaracterization of emergency contraceptives as abortifacients, the influence of social media on patient-provider communication, and online messages that inaccurately promote fertility awareness methods as safer alternatives.

Misleading Narratives and Social Media Shape Contraception PerceptionsThis volume examines misleading claims about birth control, focusing on the distortion of emergency contraceptives (such as Plan B) as abortifacients. It also explores how social media and patient-provider communication shape perceptions of hormone-based contraceptives’ safety and effectiveness, particularly in response to online…

With the incoming Trump administration and Republican-led Congress looking to ways to reduce federal spending, this Poll finds that the Medicare and Medicaid programs remain broadly popular, and more people favor more spending on those programs than less spending. Among potential actions on health, the public sees price transparency and limiting chemicals in food as top priorities. Few say so about cuts to Medicaid and restrictions on abortion.