Key Facts on Health Care Use and Costs Among Immigrants September 23, 2024 Issue Brief This issue brief draws from the KFF/LA Times Survey of Immigrants and other KFF analyses to highlight immigrants’ health care eligibility, healthcare use and costs, as well as their contributions to the economy and workforce.
Most Sentenced for Trafficking Fentanyl are U.S. Citizens September 20, 2024 Quick Take Former President Donald Trump has routinely blamed undocumented immigrants for a rise in drug trafficking and overdose deaths across the U.S.-Mexico border…But most fentanyl is being trafficked by American citizens, not migrants.
Back to the Future? A look back at High-Risk Pools September 20, 2024 Quick Take 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?
North Carolina’s Effort to Relieve Medical Debt September 20, 2024 Blog This policy watch examines the burden of medical debt in North Carolina and the state’s new plan to leverage the Medicaid program to provide debt relief and support access to care for low- and middle-income North Carolinians.
HIV Viral Suppression Rate in U.S. Lowest Among Comparable High-Income Countries September 19, 2024 Slide
As Medicaid Unwinding Concludes in Most States, KFF Finds 25 Million Lost Medicaid Coverage but Enrollment is 10 Million Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Levels September 18, 2024 News Release Over 25 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid and over 56 million had their coverage renewed, according to KFF’s analysis of the outcomes of the Medicaid unwinding, which nearly all states have now completed.
An Examination of Medicaid Renewal Outcomes and Enrollment Changes at the End of the Unwinding September 18, 2024 Issue Brief Using data from the KFF Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker, this analysis reports data on unwinding renewal outcomes through June 2024 and examines Medicaid enrollment changes from February 2020 through May 2024, the most recent federal enrollment data available, nationally and across states.
IVF as an Election and Policy Issue September 17, 2024 Quick Take 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
New Data Show Children are Experiencing Increases in Poverty and Uninsurance September 16, 2024 Quick Take New poverty data show the supplemental poverty rate for children remains more than double what it was in 2021.
