Key Facts About Medicare Beneficiaries in Rural Areas
This brief highlights key facts about Medicare beneficiaries living in rural areas, including their demographic and health characteristics, access to care, and satisfaction with care.
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Growing Uncertainty About the Future of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQI+ Service
This brief reviews the latest data on the 988 LGBTQI+ service and explores its future, including recent uncertainties.
How Will the 2025 Reconciliation Bill Affect the Uninsured Rate in Each State? Allocating CBO’s Estimates of Coverage Loss
House Republicans have passed a reconciliation package (the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) that would make significant changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces and increase the number of people without health insurance by an estimated 10.9 million. This analysis estimates state-level increases in the number of uninsured people due to this…
KFF Health Tracking Poll: The Public’s Views of Funding Reductions to Medicaid
As Congress works to pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which includes significant changes to Medicaid and the ACA, the latest KFF Health Tracking Poll examines the views of groups that could be most directly impacted by the impending legislation. The poll finds most of the public is worried about the consequences of federal…
More Than Half of the Public Worries Federal Medicaid Budget Cuts Would Affect Their Family’s Ability to Obtain and Afford Care; More Worry It Will Increase the Uninsured
As Congress weighs spending cuts and other changes to Medicaid, more than half (54%) of the public say they are worried significant reductions in federal Medicaid spending would negatively affect their family’s ability to obtain and afford health care, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. This includes about three in 10 (29%) who say…More
Domestic HIV Funding in the White House FY2026 Budget Request
This brief provides an overview of the FY26 budget request for domestic HIV and compares it to funding levels in the FY25 continuing resolution.
Make American Health Care Affordable Again
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 Medicaid and Affordable Care Act…More
Allocating CBO’s Estimates of Federal Medicaid Spending Reductions and Enrollment Loss Across the States
The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest estimate shows that the One Big Beautiful Bill would reduce federal Medicaid spending by $793 and that the Medicaid provisions would increase the number of uninsured people by 7.8 million. Previous CBO estimates show that 10.3 million fewer people would be enrolled in Medicaid in 2034. Building on prior…
Which Federal Agencies Make Medicare Work and How Were They Affected by Recent Changes Made by the Trump Administration?
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.
Administration Releases Additional Details of Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request
On May 30, 2025, the administration released additional details of its Fiscal Year 2026 budget request, including more specific information on funding for global health activities at the State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The proposed budget includes significant…More