Unless Congress acts quickly to extend the enhanced ACA marketplace premium tax credits, nearly 5 million people could lose ...

This scorecard assesses how well Medicare is working for Americans, offering insights about the sources of variation that ...

In 2024, Texas increased supplemental payments for rural hospitals from $500 to $1,500 per birth, bringing the total compensation per Medicaid birth to $8,100. (For comparison, employer-sponsored ...

This analysis estimates the impact of the loss of enhanced premium tax credits (ePTC) for marketplace coverage on community ...

The Title X Family Planning Program provides equitable and reliable access to contraception nationwide and is a critical ...

Prior authorization can help encourage the efficient use of health care resources but too often, it delays treatment patients ...

Roughly 55 percent of Medicaid enrollees are working full or part time, and a number aren’t eligible for health insurance ...

A million lawfully present immigrants will lose access to marketplace coverage, Medicaid, and Medicare in 2026, as a result ...

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. Writing for a five-member ...

This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...

The U.S. health care system has long been marked by high spending, comparatively poor health outcomes, inequities, waste, and inefficiency. To address these issues, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

Medical debt, or personal debt incurred from unpaid medical bills, is a leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States. 1 Almost a third of working age U.S. adults are currently in debt because of ...