Category: health costs

How Affordability of Employer Coverage Varies by Family Income

This analysis looks at the share of family income people with employer-based coverage pay toward their premiums and out-of-pocket payments for medical care. The cost of employer sponsored health insurance—including premiums, deductibles, and other out-…

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.

How Might the House-Passed 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…

What are the Implications of the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Bill for Hospitals?

On May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget reconciliation bill that includes significant reductions in federal Medicaid spending to help offset the cost of tax cuts, along with changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), immigrati…

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…

The Performance of the Federal Independent Dispute Resolution Process through Mid-2024

The No Surprises Act, which was signed into law by President Trump during his first term and took effect in 2022, aims to protect consumers from certain surprise medical bills. The law established processes to keep the patient out of the payment negoti…

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.