In some states, governors and state health departments have announced plans to mitigate the impact of the funding cuts and ...

Gaps in health coverage have declined but will likely increase in 2026 due to recent policy changes; options to shrink gaps ...

About 22 percent of workers who lacked access to employer coverage were uninsured. These workers were disproportionately male ...

Timothy Herman exits the Curtis Area Senior Center in Curtis, Neb., where the only health clinic in the city is closing. H.R.

A pedestrian crosses Pennsylvania Avenue near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 2025. New federal policy ...

This brief compares U.S. maternal and child mortality rates at the national, state, and racial and ethnic level to 200 ...

Medicaid is an essential source of health coverage for one in five Americans, providing access to care for low-income families, communities of color, people with disabilities, and other underserved ...

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 ...

Medicaid, the public health insurance program covering more than 72 million people with low income, is jointly funded by states and the federal government. Medicaid spending totaled around $890 ...

Many people who purchase health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces are eligible for tax credits that lower their monthly premiums. In 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic still raged, ...

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 ...