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- On June 26, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling that preserves free preventive care under the Affordable Care Act, a popular benefit that helps approximately 150 million Americans stay healthy.The case, Kennedy v. Braidwood, was the fourth major legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act. The decision, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh with the support of Justices Amy Coney…July 2025Policy & Law, Services & Programs, Systemic Determinants
- This report is designed to provide leaders a compilation of policies and practices that promote health equity and eliminate inequitable policies and practices. Whether an organization’s journey to advance health equity is well underway or just beginning, we hope this report will spark change and lead to thoughtful conversations and partnerships among business leaders that can truly have an impact…April 2025Policy & Law
- There is no denying that politics affect health, playing a crucial role in shaping health equity. Political engagement for health equity involves collaborative, evidence-based, and non-partisan advocacy to address systemic barriers and advance policies that promote equitable health outcomes. It emphasizes bridging divides, fostering systemic change, and empowering marginalized communities to…January 2025Advocacy, Policy & Law, Social/Structural Determinants
- This interactive dashboard provides KFF’s insights from AP VoteCast election polling of the 2024 election, focusing on how abortion, including abortion-related ballot measures, and other health care issues have played into voters’ decisions.KFF examined the role that abortion policy and abortion-related state ballot initiatives, as well as the economy and health care costs, played in the 2024…November 2024Abortion Access
- Voters in seven states in the 2024 election approved measures to protect access to abortion, continuing a streak nationwide that brought together voters from both parties and in red, blue and purple states to support reproductive freedom.Abortion is an LGBTQ issue. LGBTQ people can and do become pregnant and need reproductive health care. The same activists pushing anti-abortion laws also fought…November 2024Abortion, Abortion Access
- In the early hours of November 6, 2024, the presidential race was called for Donald J. Trump, who will return to the White House with a mandate to enact his campaign promises to shake up federal agencies, including those overseeing health policy, public health, food, medicine, and social supports. His 2017-2021 term was marked by unsuccessful efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) but…November 2024Abortion, Policy & Law
- Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and coming return to the White House will likely bring changes that scale back the nation’s public health insurance programs — potentially increasing the uninsured rate, while imposing new barriers to abortion and other reproductive care.The reverberations will be felt far beyond Washington, D.C. and could include an erosion of the Affordable Care…November 2024Policy & Law
- Former President Trump won the presidential election, which will unleash a new era in health care policy as his campaign’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement takes power. Read more from Sarah Owermohle about what a Trump presidency would mean for health care.During his election night speech, Trump reiterated his promise to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a role on health care policy in his new…November 2024Policy & Law
- President-elect Donald Trump is expected to maintain his strong stance on deregulation and prioritize policies that address healthcare access and costs. Looking ahead, the Trump administration intends to uphold campaign promises for the health sector with four key themes:Promote access to healthcare via market competition and transparencyEnhance flexibility and choice in healthcare to states and…November 2024Policy & Law
- By focusing on integrating care teams, expanding community programs, and addressing SDoH through policy reform, we can create a healthcare system that serves all patients — especially those most in need. (author introduction)November 2024Policy & Law, Environmental/Community Health
- Despite polling consistently showing that voters are deeply concerned about medical care and its costs, neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris is offering a sweeping vision of health care reform. (author introduction)November 2024Health Reform
- An agreement to set nations’ obligations when the next pandemic comes, billions in contributions to international disease control efforts, even U.S. membership in the World Health Organization: Those are the main stakes for global health in tomorrow’s election, according to health policy analysts. (author introduction)November 2024Policy & Law
- On the campaign trail, both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are eager to portray themselves as guardians of Medicare. Each presidential candidate accuses the other of backing spending cuts and other policies that would damage the health insurance program for older Americans.But the election’s outcome could alter the very nature of the nearly 60-year-old federal…November 2024Policy & Law
- On May 3, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration published new regulations extending eligibility for Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace coverage to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Under these regulations, the definition of lawfully present will newly include DACA recipients for the purposes of eligibility to purchase coverage through the ACA Marketplaces and to receive…October 2024Policy & Law
- Medicaid has announced a two-year pilot program which covers traditional Native American healing practices in four states. The author explores the program through the lens of one Native American who recovered from addiction in a Native-led treatment house.October 2024Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Substance Use and Misuse, Medicaid
- Despite spending more on healthcare than any other nation, the U.S. is the lowest or second-lowest-ranking country when it comes to measures such as access, equity and outcomes, according to a new Commonwealth Fund analysis.And the U.S. ranked last overall among 10 countries when factoring in all of those metrics. The top-performing countries this year are Australia, the Netherlands and the…October 2024Policy & Law
- The upcoming 2024 election has profound implications for health policy, and we can think of no better national expert to discuss this with than Ashish Jha, currently Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. Ashish served as White House COVID-19 Coordinator in 2022-2023, and was director of Harvard’s Global Health Institute from 2014-2020. (author introduction)October 2024Policy & Law
- The Election 2024 series from the Public Health On Call podcast looks at what’s top of mind for public health experts for this election across topics such as health policy, preventing gun violence, legislating reproductive health, and immigration. (author introduction)October 2024Policy & Law
- Health care has often taken a central role in political campaigns, and the 2024 presidential election is no different. But the debate around health care isn’t just about policy. The issues at stake — such as health care coverage and affordability, reproductive health and substance use disorders — affect individuals and families in Pennsylvania and across the nation, making it a high priority…July 2024Policy & Law
- It’s long been clear that societal forces affect health, from neighborhood demographics to school quality to the selection of products on sale in our corner stores. But what’s behind those forces? In this fireside chat, Daniel Dawes, a renowned scholar and attorney, unpacked the political determinants of health, exploring how relationships, resources, policies, and power structures exert enormous…May 2024Policy & Law
- The House Ways and Means Committee hearing on March 18, 2024, highlights several health-related issues, including the importance of ensuring access to emergency medical care in rural and underserved areas through the Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) designation and freestanding emergency centers (FECs). It addresses challenges with Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and discusses the critical…March 2024Policy & Law, Environmental/Community Health
- Societal systems act individually and in concert to create and perpetuate structural racism through both policies and practices at the local, state, and federal levels that, in turn, generate racial health disparities. Both current and historical policy approaches across multiple sectors including but not limited to housing, employment, health insurance, immigration and criminal legal, have the…February 2024Policy & Law
- States across the country have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a flood of policy changes, from physical distancing and mask requirements to expansions of social safety net programs and eviction freezes. The COVID-19 US State Policy (CUSP) database is a publicly available dataset that is free for all users to download. CUSP is designed to be a tool for researchers, policymakers, the media…January 2024COVID-19/Coronavirus, Policy & Law
- As described throughout this report, racial, ethnic, and tribal health inequities are created and sustained by factors both inside and outside of the health care system. However, health is strongly tied to the health care system—a healthy population requires access to high-quality, comprehensive, affordable, timely, respectful, and culturally appropriate health care. The health care system serves…July 2023Policy & Law
- Health and civic engagement are linked. Healthier people may be able to participate more fully in civic life, although those with poorer health may be motivated to address the roots of their health challenges using collective action. In turn, civically active people may experience better health, and societies with more equitable health and health care may experience healthier civic life.…June 2023Policy & Law
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