This analysis estimates that the House-passed reconciliation bill could lead Medicaid spending in rural areas to decrease by $119 billion and a 1.5 million drop in enrollment over 10 years.
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How Might the Reconciliation Bill’s Medicaid Cuts Affect Rural Areas?
This analysis estimates that the House-passed reconciliation bill could lead Medicaid spending in rural areas to decrease by $119 billion and a 1.5 million drop in enrollment over 10 years.
KFF Health Tracking Poll: Views of the One Big Beautiful Bill
This poll finds two-thirds of the public view the “One Big Beautiful Bill” legislation unfavorably, and its favorability erodes further when people hear about its potential health impacts. As Congress debates changes to Medicaid and the ACA as part of …
Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Payments Will Total at Least $12.7 Billion in 2025
Federal spending on the Medicare Advantage quality bonus program has more than quadrupled since 2015, rising to at least $12.7 billion in 2025. Most Medicare Advantage enrollees are in a plan that receives a bonus payment in 2025, with employer- and un…
Make American Health Care Affordable Again
In this JAMA Health Forum column, Larry Levitt highlights how the Make America Healthy Again agenda aimed at chronic disease does little to address the affordability of health care and that efforts to lower federal spending on health care may worsen th…
Expansions to Health Savings Accounts in House Budget Reconciliation: Unpacking the Provisions and Costs to Taxpayers
The House budget reconciliation bill contains various expansions to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). This policy watch explains what HSAs are, how they have been used, what the key changes to HSAs would be, and how much they would cost the federal gover…
Tracking the Health Savings Accounts Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill
KFF is tracking the Health Savings Accounts provisions included in the 2025 federal budget reconciliation bill. The House-passed bill includes several changes, while the proposed Senate bill does not address HSAs.
KFF Health Tracking Poll April 2025: Public’s View on Major Cuts to Federal Health Agencies
Amid sweeping cuts to federal government health agencies by the Trump Administration, much of the public opposes cuts to funding and staffing, including some Republicans. Support of many of these cuts is largely partisan, however, there is agreement ac…
Most of the Public Oppose Major Federal Cuts to Health Agencies and Programs and Say They Have Been Made “Recklessly”
As the Trump administration and Congress pursue broad cuts to federal health agencies and budgets, most of the public, including some Republicans, oppose deep budget and staffing cuts to federal health programs and agencies, a new KFF Health Tracking P…
Five Things to Know About Medicare Site-Neutral Payment Reforms
This brief examines key facts around proposals to align Medicare payments for outpatient services across care settings, otherwise known as “site-neutral payment reforms.”
