Explaining Health Savings Accounts in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces
This brief examines how the budget reconciliation law expanded access to HSA-eligible plans and accounts on the ACA Marketplaces and what these changes means for enrollees
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Explaining Health Care Reform: Questions About Health Insurance Subsidies
Issue BriefThis brief provides an overview of the financial assistance provided under the ACA for people purchasing coverage on their own through health insurance Marketplaces (also called exchanges).
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Key Facts About Health Care Affordability for People With Medicare
Issue BriefThis brief presents key facts and analysis about affordability of health care costs among people with Medicare, including younger adults with long-term disabilities, drawing on data from various sources.
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Medicaid Eligibility Levels for Older Adults and People with Disabilities (Non-MAGI) in 2026
Issue BriefKFF’s Survey of Medicaid Financial Eligibility for Older Adults & People with Disabilities, conducted in March 2026 by KFF and Watts Health Policy Consulting, provides a baseline of Medicaid eligibility ahead of potential changes to the Medicaid program stemming from the 2025 reconciliation law.
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Income and Assets of Medicare Beneficiaries in 2024
Issue BriefThis brief examines the income, assets, and home equity of Medicare beneficiaries, overall and by age, race and ethnicity, and gender. Most Medicare beneficiaries live on relatively low incomes and have modest financial resources to draw upon if they need costly care or long-term services and supports.
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Health Costs Consume a Large Portion of Income for Millions of People with Medicare
Issue BriefTo document the affordability challenges posed by out-of-pocket health care costs for people with Medicare, this brief analyzes out-of-pocket health care costs as a share of Social Security income and total income, including other sources of income in addition to Social Security.
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Medicaid Eligibility Levels for Older Adults and People with Disabilities (Non-MAGI) in 2025
Issue BriefKFF’s Survey of Medicaid Financial Eligibility for Older Adults & People with Disabilities, conducted in March 2025 by KFF and Watts Health Policy Consulting, provides a baseline of Medicaid eligibility as states return to normal operations after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and ahead of potential changes to the Medicaid program.
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The Best Approach to Social Determinants No One Talks About
From Drew AltmanIn his latest column, KFF President and CEO Drew Altman reviews an evaluation of a “guaranteed income” (GI) randomized trial in Cambridge, MA and writes about the potential of GI strategies to reduce poverty and its effects. When it comes to influencing the social determinants of health, he argues, “income strategies” deployed outside of health care, such as GI, deserve as much attention from health care people as “service strategies.”
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How Many Older Adults Live in Poverty?
Issue BriefTo provide context for understanding the financial needs and well-being of older adults, this brief analyzes the latest data on poverty rates among the 58 million non-institutionalized adults ages 65 and older in the U.S overall, based on both the official poverty measure and the Supplemental Poverty Measure.
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“Healthification”: The Good and Bad of Making Everything a Health Issue
From Drew AltmanIn his new column, KFF President and CEO Drew Altman discusses the pros and cons of labeling socio-economic problems as health issues.