36% of US adults skipped or postponed needed healthcare over cost in the past 12 months (KFF, fielded May 2025), and 26% skipped some medical treatment in 2025…
Wartime wage freezes made it hard for employers to attract workers with pay raises, so companies began offering health insurance as a tax-exempt benefit instead. This ti…
Medicare created federal health coverage for seniors; Medicaid created coverage for low-income Americans. Both remain the base of US government healthcare financing refe…
Added outpatient prescription drug coverage to Medicare, but explicitly barred government price negotiation - a restriction only partly reversed by the 2022 Inflation Re…
Created ACA marketplaces, subsidies and pre-existing-condition protections, cutting the uninsured rate sharply over the following decade - though premiums and deductible…
The No Surprises Act (Jan 1) banned most surprise billing for emergency and in-network-facility care. The Inflation Reduction Act (Aug) authorized Medicare drug-price ne…
CMS recorded $5.3 trillion in national health spending (18.0% of GDP, $15,474 per person). The Commonwealth Fund's Mirror, Mirror report ranked the US last of 10 high-in…
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (July 4) introduced Medicaid work requirements effective by 2027, with CBO estimating up to 7.8 million could lose coverage. A federal cou…
KFF's brief (poll fielded May 2025) found 36% of adults skipped or postponed needed care over cost in the past 12 months. The Federal Reserve's SHED report (fielded Oct…
Enhanced ACA premium tax credits expired at the end of 2025; KFF reports 2026 enrollment fell to 23.1 million from a record 24.3 million as net premiums rose about 58%.…
The full, en banc 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Texas Medical Association v. HHS that the 'qualifying payment amount' formula used to resolve insurer-provider…
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