The budget bill would create millions of newly uninsured, increase consumers’ premiums, and impose new barriers on Americans’ ...

The budget bill recently passed by the House of Representatives reduces federal funding for Medicaid by $863 billion and for ...

In North Carolina, eligibility for Medicaid and other social services is completed by county staff, which consists of 100 ...

In the U.S., the maternal mortality rate is greater than in other high-income countries, with persistent racial and ethnic ...

Dental benefits for adults in Medicaid are a frequent target for budget cuts; state budget shortfalls could make cuts more ...

Policymakers have several options to reduce churn in Medicaid enrollment, including expanding continuous eligibility and ...

Abstract. Issue: Recent debates about reducing federal support for the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid eligibility expansion have focused on federal spending cuts, how states might respond, and ...

Abstract. Issue: Through the budget reconciliation process, Congress could mandate that all able-bodied adults with Medicaid work at least 20 hours a week (or participate in “community engagement” ...

Provisional data show that drug overdoses in the United States claimed more than 100,000 lives for a third consecutive year in 2023 — a more than 50 percent jump since 2019. By a substantial margin, ...

Nurse Yesenia Aguirre (right) gives a COVID-19 vaccine to Francisca Chavez at the Mexican consulate in Glendale, Colo., on August 22, 2024. More than half of Hispanic/Latino working-age adults ...

While all countries in this analysis offer health care coverage to older adults, the amount beneficiaries are required to spend out of pocket for health services — including prescription medications, ...

Community health centers (CHCs), as they will be called in this brief, provide low-cost, high-quality primary care. They regularly meet or exceed national benchmarks for hypertension and diabetes ...