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Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements

The 2025 reconciliation law requires states to condition Medicaid eligibility for adults in the ACA Medicaid expansion group on meeting work requirements starting January 1, 2027; however, states have ...
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Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements

The 2025 reconciliation law, once called the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025, requires 44 states (including DC) to condition Medicaid eligibility for adults in the ...
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Proposed Changes to Demographic Data Collection in the Census Could Impact Efforts to Address Health and Health Care Disparities

This issue brief provides an overview of the decennial census and discusses potential implications of the changes outlined in ...
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Drew Altman

Drew Altman is founding president and chief executive officer of KFF, a position he has held for more than 30 years since founding the modern day KFF organization in the 1990s. He is a leading expert ...
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KFF/AP Survey Probes Rural Voters’ Increasing Anxieties About the Rising Cost of Living, Including Health Costs, Heading into the Midterm Elections

Rural voters’ frustrations about the cost of living in their community are growing and appear to be chipping away at Republicans’ enthusiasm to vote as the midterm elections near, a new KFF/AP Survey ...
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Poll: People Without a Trusted Health Care Provider Are More Likely to Endorse Vaccine Myths, As Are Those Who Often Use Social Media or AI for Health Information

People who don’t have a trusted health care provider are more likely than people with one to believe or lean toward believing several common myths about vaccines, a new KFF Tracking Poll on Health ...
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State Fiscal Conditions: Context on Medicaid Budgets for FY 2027

Medicaid is the primary program providing comprehensive health and long-term care to one in five people living in the U.S. and accounts for nearly $1 out of every $5 spent on health care. Medicaid is ...
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Global COVID-19 Tracker

Editorial Note: The Policy Actions tracker will no longer be updated as the data source has ceased tracking government responses to COVID-19. For more information, please visit the Oxford Covid-19 ...
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Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs

Editorial Note: This brief was updated on September 29, 2026, to include the latest KFF polling data. It was originally published on December 14, 2021. For many years, KFF polling has found that the ...
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Policy Tracker: Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care and State Policy Restrictions

states impose professional or legal penalties on health care practitioners providing minors with GAC State laws and policies prohibiting or restricting minor access to gender affirming care have ...
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Jennifer Tolbert

Jennifer Tolbert is the deputy director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the director of State Health Policy and Data. She directs research and policy analysis on Medicaid eligibility ...