How Might Lowering the Medicare Age Affect Medicaid Enrollees?
President Biden’s FY 2022 budget proposes lowering the Medicare enrollment age from 65 to 60, and a group of over…
FDA’s Approval of Biogen’s New Alzheimer’s Drug Has Huge Cost Implications for Medicare and Beneficiaries
The question of what would happen when a new, expensive prescription drug comes to market for a disease like Alzheimer’s…
Utilization and Spending Trends in Medicaid Outpatient Prescription Drugs, 2015-2019
Prescription drug spending in Medicaid and other health programs has returned to the national policy debate. This analysis examines Medicaid…
Recent and Anticipated Actions to Reverse Trump Administration Section 1557 Non-Discrimination Rules
The Biden Administration has started taking steps to reverse Trump Administration policy and regulations that significantly narrowed the implementation and…
Key Facts About Medicare Part D Enrollment, Premiums, and Cost Sharing in 2021
The Medicare Part D program provides an outpatient prescription drug benefit to older adults and people with long-term disabilities in…
The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States: The Basics
CDC. MMWR, Vol. 30, No. 21; June 1981. ← Return to text CDC. Estimated HIV incidence and prevalence in the…
Supplemental Security Income for People with Disabilities: Implications for Medicaid
The federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides a cash payment to serve as a minimum level of income for…
KFF Health Tracking Poll: The Public’s Views on the ACA
KFF Health Tracking Poll: The Public’s Views on the ACA Published: Jun 03, 2021 The public has remained deeply divided…
KFF Health Tracking Poll – May 2021: Prescription Drug Prices Top Public’s Health Care Priorities
Key Findings The latest KFF Health Tracking Poll finds majorities of the public saying many current health care proposals being…
Two-Thirds of the Public Say the U.S. Should Play a Major Role in Distributing COVID-19 Vaccines Globally, But Not Most Republicans
With increased attention to the global need for COVID-19 vaccines and the Biden administration’s announcement today about how it plans…