Gaps in health coverage have declined but will likely increase in 2026 due to recent policy changes; options to shrink gaps ...

About 22 percent of workers who lacked access to employer coverage were uninsured. These workers were disproportionately male ...

Timothy Herman exits the Curtis Area Senior Center in Curtis, Neb., where the only health clinic in the city is closing. H.R.

A pedestrian crosses Pennsylvania Avenue near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 2025. New federal policy ...

This brief compares U.S. maternal and child mortality rates at the national, state, and racial and ethnic level to 200 ...

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

Insurer filings reveal widespread and substantial proposed rate increases for 2026, with insurers commonly citing increasing ...

The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created to improve access to care for low-income and uninsured patients at safety-net hospitals and clinics. Over the years, however, critics have argued that the ...

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 ...

Medicaid is an essential source of health coverage for one in five Americans, providing access to care for low-income families, communities of color, people with disabilities, and other underserved ...

As part of 2025 budget reconciliation, Congress is expected to consider unprecedented cuts to Medicaid funding, with several House members stating their intention to “fix flaws in the program that ...

Medicaid, the public health insurance program covering more than 72 million people with low income, is jointly funded by states and the federal government. Medicaid spending totaled around $890 ...