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Raising Medicare’s Age of Eligibility to 67 Would Achieve Significant Savings, But Shift Costs To 65- and 66-Year-Olds, Other Individuals, Employers and Medicaid, New Analysis Shows

Jul 18, 2011

News Release

Study Estimates Two in Three People Ages 65 and 66 Would Pay $2,200 More On Average For Health Care in 2014 Than They Would If They Remained in Medicare MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Raising Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to 67 in 2014 would generate an estimated $5.7 billion in net savings to the federal government, but also result in an estimated net increase of $3.7 billion in out-of-pocket costs for 65- and 66-year-olds, and…

Consolidation and Integration in Health Care: What It Means for Patients, Payers, and Policy

Event Date: Feb 18, 2026

Event

Panelists discussed the motivations behind horizontal and vertical consolidation in health care, its potential to lower or raise costs, the implications for patients and payers, and how policy makers could respond.

Allocating CBO’s Estimates of Federal Medicaid Spending Reductions Across the States: Enacted Reconciliation Package

Jul 23, 2025

Issue Brief

This analysis allocates the CBO’s estimated reduction in federal spending in the enacted reconciliation package across states based on KFF’s state-level data and where possible, prior modeling work; and shows the federal spending reductions relative to KFF’s projections of federal spending by state under current law.

Medicaid and Its Role in State/Federal Budgets and Health Reform: A Fact Sheet

Apr 17, 2013

Fact Sheet

This fact sheet highlights key issues about Medicaid, including the structure, financing and purpose of the program, its role for low-income beneficiaries, its share of the federal budget and state budgets and the significant implications of the coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Fact Sheet (.pdf) Related chartpack: Medicaid and Its Role in State/Federal Budgets and Health Reform

Raising the Age of Medicare Eligibility: A Fresh Look Following Implementation of Health Reform

Jul 18, 2011

Report

Several major deficit-reduction and entitlement reform proposals include raising Medicare's age of eligibility from 65 to 67 as a way of improving Medicare's solvency. This Kaiser Family Foundation report estimates the expected effects of such a change on the federal budget, as well as on affected seniors' out-of-pocket costs, employers, Medicaid and others in light of the major changes in coverage enacted under the 2010 health reform law. The study estimates that raising Medicare’s eligibility…

Federal Funding for HIV/AIDS Care in the U.S., by Program, FY 2016 Request

Apr 13, 2015

Feature

Federal Funding for HIV/AIDS Care in the U.S., by Program, FY 2016 Request Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation Analysis of data from OMB; 2015.

Dual Eligible Beneficiaries as a Percent of Medicare and Medicaid Enrollment and Spending, 2008

Mar 13, 2013

Feature

Dual Eligible Beneficiaries as a Percent of Medicare and Medicaid Enrollment and Spending, 2008 Download Source Medicare spending and enrollment estimates from Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the 2008 CMS Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Cost and Use File; Medicaid spending and enrollment estimates from Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and Urban Institute analysis of data from FY 2008 MSIS and CMS Form 64

Medicaid Enrollees and Expenditures, FFY 2009

Mar 14, 2013

Feature

Medicaid Enrollees and Expenditures, FFY 2009 Download Source KCMU/Urban Institute estimates based on data from FFY 2009 MSIS and CMS-64, 2012. MSIS FFY 2008 data were used for PA, UT, and WI, but adjusted to 2009 CMS-64

The Federal Government will Fund the Vast Majority of Medicaid Expansion Costs

Mar 15, 2013

Feature

The Federal Government will Fund the Vast Majority of Medicaid Expansion Costs Download

Kaiser/UNAIDS Study Finds No Real Change In Donor Funding For HIV

Sep 23, 2013

News Release

This report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) evaluates international efforts to finance the response to the AIDS epidemic. The annual funding analysis finds donor governments disbursed US$7.86 billion toward the AIDS response in low-and middle-income countries in 2012, essentially unchanged from the US$7.63 billion level in 2011 after adjusting for inflation.

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