We examine the causal effect of health insurance on mortality using the universe of low-income adults, a dataset of 37 million individuals identified by linking the 2010 Census to administrative tax ...

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Table HIC-4_ACS, "Health Insurance Coverage Status and Type of Coverage by State-All Persons: 2008 to 2022," in American Community Survey, September 2023. Notes: Italicized ...

Findings suggest Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act saved about 27,400 lives between 2010-22, including among younger adults. A new working paper from the University of Chicago provides ...

On the 65th anniversary of Medicaid, Brooklyn residents — and many of its hospitals – were bracing for the impact of massive federal health spending cuts included in President Donald Trump’s “Big ...

Companies running private Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans inaccurately list many mental health professionals as being available to treat the plans' members, a new federal watchdog report says.

Changes to Medicaid passed in the Trump Administration's Big, Beautiful Bill are poised to reduce federal Medicaid spending by $911 billion over the next 10 years and lead millions of people to lose ...

Under President Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low. Republicans in Washington say they plan to use funding cuts and regulatory changes to ...

Why Republicans think that insurance should be tied to employment — and that it’s not essential to have at all. Credit...Photo illustration by Pablo Delcan Supported by By Sarah Kliff Sarah Kliff has ...

AURORA, Colo. — Isabella Quintana’s first birthday came with an unwelcome gift this summer: She abruptly lost her health insurance weeks later. The little girl, who has a heart murmur and ...

With President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration set for Monday, there's still a lot of uncertainty about what changes his administration and the new Republican Congress could usher in. Republicans in ...

The White House on Saturday released a study estimating that 8.2 to 9.2 million more Americans could be without health insurance as a result of an ensuing recession if President Donald Trump’s "big, ...

Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to a pharmacy in West Little Rock, Arkansas, to fill a prescription. "The ...