Recent Changes to Temporary Protected Status Designations: Potential Impacts on Health and Health Care
Introduction The Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program was established in 1990 and allows the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate...
What Are the Recent Trends in Employer-Based Health Coverage?
Employer-sponsored health insurance is the largest source of health coverage for people under 65, covering 165.6 million people in March...
Key Facts about the Uninsured Population
How many people are uninsured? For the first time since 2019, the number of people without health coverage and the...
Cost Concerns and Coverage Changes: A Follow-Up Survey of ACA Marketplace Enrollees
About the Survey At the end of 2025, despite a government shutdown over the policy, the enhanced premium tax credits...
Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Extension Tracker
The Medicaid program finances about 4 in 10 births in the U.S. Federal law requires states to provide pregnancy-related Medicaid...
Most Medicare Beneficiaries Affected by Plan Terminations in 2025 Have Robust Medicare Advantage Options in 2026
After years of rapid increases, Medicare Advantage enrollment growth slowed in 2025, a trend that continued in 2026. The number...
Oral Contraceptive Pills: Access and Availability
The 2022 KFF Women’s Health Survey found that one-third (33%) of female hormonal contraceptive users have missed taking their birth...
Medicaid Workers and Job-Based Insurance: Who Is Offered, Eligible, and Enrolled?
Passage of the 2025 reconciliation law, also known as the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” in July 2025 and the inclusion...
Comparing States’ Rural Health Fund Allotments to Medicaid Spending Cuts Can be Misleading
The 2025 reconciliation law made historic cuts to federal support for health care, including an estimated $911 billion in cuts...
Poll: People View Prior Authorization as Greatest Burden in Navigating the Health System
New KFF polling explores the challenges beyond costs that people with insurance face in navigating the health care system. People...
