H.R. 1’s Medicaid provider tax changes are projected to reduce federal investments by nearly $226 billion over 10 years and cause 2.4 million people to lose coverage.

Under H.R. 1, states must require that low-income people meet work-reporting requirements to qualify for Medicaid under the ...

Source: Faith Leonard and Gretchen Jacobson, “What Does the Decline in Medicare Part D Plan Availability Mean for ...

With sufficient funding, states can utilize Medicaid SPAs and Section 1115 waivers, MCO contracts, and Title X grants to ...

These developments have prompted states to preserve scientifically backed services where they can: state-regulated private insurance plans, Medicaid, and public health programs. State policymakers ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance through their jobs. Read more in an explainer here. At the end of 2025, ...

The Trump administration is sending the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces into rough seas. By signing H.R. 1 into law and finalizing a new set of regulations, the administration has enacted ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created to improve access to care for low-income and uninsured patients at safety-net hospitals and clinics. Over the years, however, critics have argued that the ...

The U.S. Congress is considering deep cuts to federal Medicaid spending, as much as $880 billion over 10 years. According to the Congressional Budget Office, such cuts would represent a 12 percent ...

When private equity firms buy your local hospital, your primary care doctor’s office, or your local nursing home, they profit. But what happens to those health care institutions, the patients they ...

Provisional data show that drug overdoses in the United States claimed more than 100,000 lives for a third consecutive year in 2023 — a more than 50 percent jump since 2019. By a substantial margin, ...

An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...