Racial and Ethnic Health Inequities and Medicare
This chart collection draws on primary and secondary data analyses by KFF and other sources to examine the characteristics, experiences, and outcomes of the Medicare population by race and ethnicity
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What Do We Know About People with High Out-of-Pocket Spending?
FeatureBased on an analysis of claims data, this slideshow examines overall trends, gender and age of high out-of-pocket spenders in large employer health plans, as well as differences in out-of-pocket health expenditures across diseases.
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Loss of the ACA Could Greatly Erode Health Coverage and Benefits for Women
Issue BriefThis brief examines what the loss of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would mean for women's coverage and access to health care.
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This Week in Coronavirus: January 22 to January 28
Policy WatchDuring the 53rd week since the first coronavirus case appeared in the United States, the world surpassed 100 million COVID-19 cases, with the United States accounting for a quarter of them. The U.S. also accounts for one-fifth (433,200) of the world’s nearly 2.2 million reported deaths.
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Analysis: COVID-19 Ranks as a Top 3 Leading Cause of Death in the U.S., Higher than in Almost All Other Peer Countries
News ReleaseA new KFF analysis examines leading causes of death and mortality rates in the United States and comparable countries. The U.S. has a higher COVID-19 mortality rate than many of its peer countries, with COVID-19 ranking as the nation’s third-leading cause of death in 2020, behind only heart disease and cancer. Among similarly large and wealthy countries, only in Belgium does COVID-19 also rank as the third highest cause of death. COVID-19 ranks fourth in…
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Explaining the Prescription Drug Provisions in the Build Back Better Act
Issue BriefThe Build Back Better Act includes several provisions that would lower prescription drug costs for people with Medicare and private insurance and reduce drug spending by the federal government and private payers. This brief summarizes these provisions and discusses the expected effects on people, program spending, and drug prices and innovation.
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Women Ages 21-65 Who Report Having a Pap Smear within the Past Three Years by Race/Ethnicity
State Health Facts Indicatordisparity, Disparities
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Key Elements of the Biden Administration’s Proposed Title X Regulation
Issue BriefThis brief explains key elements of the Biden Administration's proposed regulations for the Title X federal family planning program that would replace the Trump Administration's rules, which prohibited abortion referrals and co-located abortion services.
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Potential Impacts of Delaying “Non-Essential” Reproductive Health Care
Issue BriefThis brief analyzes how states, health systems and providers have been faced with deciding what health care is “essential” verses “elective” during the COVID-19 crisis, and what the possible consequences are to delays in "non-essential" reproductive health care.
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Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Services: Key Findings from the 2020 KFF Women’s Health Survey
Issue BriefThis brief presents new data from the KFF Women's Health Survey on coverage and use of reproductive and sexual health services among different subgroups of women ages 18 to 49.