Federal Budget

KFF is tracking the Medicare provisions included in the 2025 federal budget reconciliation bill, comparing changes in the House-passed bill, the proposed Senate bill, and current law.

This Kaiser Family Foundation webinar for journalists examined President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget request, how it will impact existing U.S. global health programs and specific countries around the globe, and how it fits into the larger foreign policy efforts of the U.S. government.

KFF is tracking the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions in the 2025 federal budget bill, including changes related to enrollment, verifying eligiblity, and filing and reconciliation.

KFF is tracking the Health Savings Accounts provisions included in the 2025 federal budget reconciliation bill. The House-passed bill includes several changes, while the proposed Senate bill does not address HSAs.

KFF is tracking the Medicaid provisions in the 2025 federal budget bill, including new Medicaid work and verification requirements and a reduction in the expansion match rate for states that use their own funds to cover undocumented immigrants.

On May 22, the House passed a budget reconciliation bill that includes significant changes to the Medicaid program. On June 16, the Senate Finance committee released proposed reconciliation language with some substantive changes to the Medicaid work requirement provisions, but this language may change as the Senate debates the bill. This issue brief provides an overview of the Medicaid work requirement provisions.

This tracker provides a listing of global health-related legislation introduced in the current Congress.

This brief highlights some of the key federal agencies and offices that play a role in making Medicare work and, to the extent possible, describes the recent staffing and organizational changes made by the Trump administration that could affect the operations of Medicare in the future.

In this JAMA Health Forum column, Larry Levitt highlights how the Make America Healthy Again agenda aimed at chronic disease does little to address the affordability of health care and that efforts to lower federal spending on health care may worsen the problem, raising out-of-pocket costs for many people with…

This brief provides an overview of the FY26 budget request for domestic HIV and compares it to funding levels in the FY25 continuing resolution.