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New poverty data show the supplemental poverty rate for children remains more than double what it was in 2021.

This week, Senator J.D. Vance suggested moving higher-risk individuals to different insurance risk pools than healthier ones – following up on former President Donald Trump’s “concepts of a plan” for replacing the Affordable Care Act. But what could such a policy mean for health coverage and costs?

While public support for IVF is high, Congress has been unable to agree even on the right to get IVF services. Agreement on coverage and funding seem even more out of reach

It is worth a refresher on how the ACA protects people with pre-existing conditions. It’s also worth asking whether and how an alternative would do the same.

Vance’s debate comment likely refers to state reinsurance waivers, largely approved by the Trump Administration. These waivers aimed to lower unsubsidized premiums by offsetting insurer costs for very sick enrollees.

Despite claims that immigrants are accessing and draining public benefits, less than 1% of Medicaid’s budget is spent on hospital emergency care for noncitizen immigrants.

If Tuesday’s vice presidential debate turns to Medicaid and work requirements, the policy trade-offs will be about working people’s access to Medicaid coverage – not about increasing work.

The number of family planning clients served by the federal Title X program has not yet recovered from the 2019 Trump Administration regulations that resulted in a mass exodus of sites.

‘What the Health?’ are the Health Implications of the Election? The Event: A live taping of ‘What the Health?’, KFF Health News’ premier policy news podcast Moderator Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent, KFF Health News Panelists Ashley Kirzinger, director of survey methodology and associate director of the Public Opinion and…

Recently courts in North Dakota and Georgia overturned the states’ abortion bans. The impact of these reversals, however, may be short lived, as is the case in Georgia.