Affordable Care Act

• KFF Health News: In the Fallout From Trump’s Health Funding Cuts, States Face Tough Budget Decision

  September 09, 2025: Patients begin lining up before dawn at Operation Border Health, an annual five-day health clinic in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Many residents in this predominantly Latino and Hispanic region spanning the Mexican border lack insurance, making the he...Read more >

• Senate Votes to Harm Older Americans’ Health and Financial Security to Reward Billionaires With Massive Tax Cuts

  July 01, 2025: Deep Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP Will Put Most Vulnerable Seniors at Risk The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the Senate Budget Resolution: “The legislation pas...Read more >

• Senate Republicans Scramble to Pass Unpopular Budget Bill

  June 27, 2025: Senate GOP leaders are forging ahead despite broad opposition to their “big, beautiful” budget bill. Nearly two-thirds of Americans view it unfavorably, according to a new KFF poll. Earlier in the week, 15 vulnerable House Republicans sent a l...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump Froze Out Project 2025 in His Campaign. Now Its Blueprint Is His Health Care Playbook.

  February 26, 2025: Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health were presaged...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Republicans Are Eyeing Cuts to Medicaid. What’s Medicaid, Again?

  February 19, 2025: In January, during a congressional hearing on his way to becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got basic details wrong about Medicaid — a program he now oversees. He said that Medicaid is full...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump’s Return Puts Medicaid on the Chopping Block

  January 15, 2025: Under President Joe Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low. Donald Trump’s return to the White House — along with a GOP-controlled Senate and House of Representatives — is expected to chan...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump’s Picks for Top Health Jobs Not Just Team of Rivals but ‘Team of Opponents’

  December 19, 2024: Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr....Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump’s White House Return Poised To Tangle Health Care Safety Net

  November 07, 2024: Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and looming return to the White House will likely bring changes that scale back the nation’s public health insurance programs — increasing the uninsured rate, while imposing new barriers to a...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Vance Rewrites History About Trump and Obamacare

  October 03, 2024: Donald Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act, but “he chose to build upon [it].” -- Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on “Meet the Press,” Sept. 15   Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sept. 15 told viewers of NBC’s “Me...Read more >

• KFF Health News: The Concierge Catch – Better Access for a Few Patients Disrupts Care for Many

  July 01, 2024: “You had to pay the fee, or the doctor wasn’t going to see you anymore.” That was the takeaway for Terri Marroquin of Midland, Texas, when her longtime physician began charging a membership fee in 2019. She found out about the change when so...Read more >