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How the Trump Administration’s Actions in the First 100 Days Harm Women’s Health
The first 100 days of a new administration — while only a snapshot — can offer insight into the direction the rest of the ...
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Status of Women’s Health: 100 Days into the Trump Administration
The first 100 days of a new administration — while only a snapshot — can offer insight into the direction the rest of the ...
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Federal Cuts to Medicaid Could End Medicaid Expansion and Affect Hospitals in Nearly Every State
In states that choose to end expanded Medicaid eligibility, fewer covered beneficiaries mean hospitals will see less ...
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Medicaid Cuts Could Increase Maternal Mortality and Jeopardize Women’s Health
Twenty-four million women rely on Medicaid for everything from maternal health and contraception to vaccinations and cancer screenings. Using data from the Commonwealth Fund’s 2024 State Scorecard on ...
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Medicare Drug Price Negotiations: All You Need to Know
Under the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, the HHS secretary negotiates directly with manufacturers on the prices ...
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Deep Medicaid Spending Cuts Put Health Care Coverage at Risk for One of Five Enrolled Children
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 ...
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Low Marketplace Premiums Often Reflect High Deductibles
Issue: The Affordable Care Act aims to make private health insurance affordable for low-income individuals, but those with incomes above 250 percent of the federal poverty level face limited ...
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U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — Trend-Tracking and Harm-Reduction Policies Could Help
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Provisional data show that drug ...
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Health Care Affordability for Older Adults: How the U.S. Compares to Other Countries
The Medicare program in the United States is a critical pathway to health care coverage for adults age 65 and older and younger people with disabilities. Beneficiaries have the option of receiving ...
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The State of Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S.
An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...
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Health Care for Women: How the U.S. Compares Internationally
Recently released federal data once again show the United States with by far the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 Racial ...
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What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election for Women’s Health
In the United States, women’s access to health care — including abortion and reproductive services, which were significantly limited by the overturning of Roe v. Wade — depends, in large part, on the ...