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  • Examining Prior Authorization in Health Insurance

    Policy Watch

    This post explains what's known about how insurers use prior authorization as a tool to control costs and encourage cost-effective care, the state and federal laws that govern it, and ongoing policy debates over efforts to impose standards to limit or regulate its use.

  • Five Things to Know about the Renewal of Extra Affordable Care Act Subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act

    Policy Watch

    As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Senate recently passed a three-year extension (through 2025) of enhanced subsidies for people buying their own health coverage on the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces. The enhanced subsidies increase the amount of financial help available to those already eligible and also newly expand subsidies to middle-income people, many of whom were previously priced out of coverage. Here’s what to know about the likely renewal of these subsidies:

  • Strategies To Lower Drug Costs Top the Public’s Health Priorities for Congress

    News Release

    Against the backdrop of public concern about inflation and rising gas prices, proposals to lower what people pay out-of-pocket for drugs tops the public’s list of health care priorities for Congress, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. Most (55%) of the public say inflation is the biggest problem facing the country. Fewer cite other issues such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine (18%), climate change (6%), the COVID-19 pandemic (6%), and crime (6%). The…

  • Escuché que hay una nueva oportunidad de inscripción especial para las personas de muy bajos ingresos. ¿Cómo funciona?

    FAQs

    Desde el 25 de agosto de 2025, se eliminó la oportunidad de inscripción especial que permitía a las personas con ingresos iguales o inferiores al 150% del nivel federal de pobreza inscribirse en la cobertura del mercado de seguros durante todo el año, simplemente por sus bajos ingresos. Las personas con este nivel de ingresos aún podrían calificar para la inscripción especial en otros eventos de inscripción especial, como cuando pierden la cobertura por pérdida…

  • Perdí mi empleo y mi seguro de salud. ¿Puedo comprar un plan en el mercado ahora, o debo esperar a la próxima inscripción abierta?

    FAQs

    Puede aplicar ahora. CuidadoDeSalud.gov y todos los mercados estatales permiten una oportunidad de inscripción especial cuando las personas pierden otra cobertura. Esto incluye la pérdida de la cobertura basada en el trabajo y la pérdida de Medicaid. En general, tiene 60 días después de la pérdida de otra cobertura para solicitar una oportunidad de inscripción especial a través del mercado. En CuidadoDeSalud.gov y en algunos otros estados, si recibe un aviso por adelantado de la…

  • Health Care Costs: A Primer

    Issue Brief

    This primer on health care spending in the United States reviews the growth in health care spending since 1970 and the impact of health care costs on families and employers.

  • Why Trump’s Dealmaking Model Doesn’t Fit Health Care Policy

    From Drew Altman

    In this column as an Axios contributor, Drew Altman discusses President Trump's threat to withhold cost sharing subsidies and questions whether his approach to deal making can bridge health care's partisan and ideological divide. "Health policy is not like real estate," he says.