Understanding the $50 Billion Rural Health Fund in the New Reconciliation Law
The new reconciliation law includes a $50 billion rural health fund. This brief describes the rural health fund, explains what the law says about the allocation of funds, and highlights outstanding questions about how the funds will be distributed across and within states to pay rural hospitals and for other purposes.
Can Democrats Make the Medicaid and ACA Cuts Their Winning Political Issue Before People Feel the Cuts?
Tracking Health Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Law
The 2025 budget reconciliation legislation, signed into law on July 4, includes several provisions related to health. Our summary describes how the new law will affect Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Health Savings Accounts.
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Los Angeles Weighs a Disaster Registry. Disability Advocates Warn Against False Assurances.
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Lost in Translation: Interpreter Cutbacks Could Put Patient Lives on the Line
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A Million Veterans Gave DNA To Aid Health Research. Scientists Worry the Data Will Be Wasted.
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One or Two Insurers Dominate Most Medicare Advantage Markets
Enrollment in most Medicare Advantage markets is highly concentrated among a few firms, dampening incentives for insurers to compete to attract and retain enrollees through better benefits or lower costs. Our analysis shares a look at the latest market concentration data.
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Abortion Trends Before and After Dobbs
This updated brief reviews the different sources of abortion data in the United States, the factors that have affected abortion rates across the U.S., before and after Roe v. Wade, and what we may see as the Trump administration, Republican majorities in the House and Senate, and a conservative federal judiciary shape policy in the coming years.
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Demand for 988 Continues to Grow at Third Anniversary
This policy watch examines 988 on its third anniversary, drawing from the latest Lifeline data available through May 2025 and suicide death data from CDC WONDER for the period 2013 to 2023. 988 received 16.5 million contacts since its launch in July 2022, including 11.2 million calls, 2.9 million texts, and 2.4 million chats.
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Beyond the Data: A Column by Drew Altman
In his regular Beyond the Data columns, President and CEO Drew Altman discusses what the data, polls, and journalism produced by KFF mean for policy and for people.