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Achieving Universal Coverage

How Undoing the Affordable Care Act Would Affect Americans’ Health Care

Explainer / Sep 05, 2024

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Advancing Health Equity

What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election for Women’s Health

Explainer / Aug 14, 2024

Improving Health Care Quality

2024 State Scorecard on Women’s Health and Reproductive Care

Scorecard / Jul 18, 2024

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Achieving Universal Coverage

Work Requirements for Medicaid Enrollees

Explainer / Apr 02, 2024

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Improving Health Care Quality

How Medicaid Protects Beneficiaries from Financial Stress — and How It Could Do More

Blog / Feb 21, 2024

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Achieving Universal Coverage

Impact of the Medicaid Coverage Gap: Comparing States That Have and Have Not Expanded Eligibility

Issue Briefs / Sep 11, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

Almost 3.8 Million People Have Lost Their Medicaid Coverage Since the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Blog / Aug 09, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance

Scorecard / Jun 22, 2023

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Improving Health Care Quality

How Regional Partnerships Bolster Rural Hospitals

Publication / May 15, 2023

Della Young, a kidney transplant patient with lupus, stands at her home in McDonough, Ga., on Oct. 26, 2021. Young lost Medicaid coverage when she moved from New York to Georgia, which is one of 11 states that hasn’t expanded Medicaid coverage to 138% of the poverty level. Those nonexpansion states have lower rates of insurance coverage and health care access overall, with larger disparities between racial/ethnic groups, than expansion states. Photo: Nicole Craine/New York Times via Redux

Advancing Health Equity

Inequities in Health Insurance Coverage and Access for Black and Hispanic Adults

Issue Briefs / Mar 16, 2023

Last year, state lawmakers in North Carolina's capital of Raleigh made significant headway toward a deal on Medicaid expansion — which could be even more critical as Medicaid's continuous coverage requirements ends. Photo: John Elk/Image Bank via Getty Images

Achieving Universal Coverage

The End of the Continuous Medicaid Coverage Requirement Will Mean Coverage Losses for People — Especially in Nonexpansion States

Blog / Feb 27, 2023

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Controlling Health Care Costs

How Policies to Expand Insurance Coverage Affect Household Health Care Spending

Issue Briefs / Jan 19, 2023

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