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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires new private health insurance plans to cover many recommended preventive services without any patient cost-sharing. This tracker presents up-to-date information on the adult preventive services nongrandfathered private plans must cover, by condition, including a summary of the recommendation, the target population, the effective date of coverage, and related federal coverage clarifications.

Firearms were responsible for 20 percent of all child and teen deaths in the U.S. for both 2020 and 2021, compared to an average of less than 2 percent in similarly large and wealthy nations. This puts the U.S. far ahead of peer nations in child and teen firearm deaths.

This brief discusses Medicaid coverage of weight-loss drugs, recent trends in Medicaid utilization and gross spending on new drugs used for weight loss, and the potential implications of those new drugs for Medicaid programs and enrollees.

This policy watch discusses some of the potential implications of the new anti-obesity drugs for racial equity.

This fact sheet identifies key U.S. government global health positions and officials.