Health Insurance News New Report Shows Medicaid Expansion Narrowed Racial Disparities In Health Insurance

Family Health Insurance Coverage Nears $27,000 a Year

A new employer survey shows premiums for a family climbed in 2025 as companies and their workers pay more for coverage. By Reed Abelson Family health insurance coverage for the vast majority of ... Read More

Medicaid Cuts Threaten Pregnancy And Postpartum Coverage, Access To Care, And Health

The United States is facing a worsening maternal health crisis, with rising rates of preventable deaths and persistent inequities across race, income, and geography. Medicaid, which finances more than ... Read More

Who will get hit hardest by expiring ACA health insurance subsidies?

The fight over enhanced premium tax credits for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplace drags on in Congress as crucial deadlines draw near and certain groups stand to be hit the hardest if an ... Read More

‘Medicaid Cut Me Off’: A Rural Health Center Faces New Pressures

As cuts to federal health care take hold, local clinics like Delta Health Center in Mississippi will be stretched more thinly than ever. As cuts to federal health care take hold, local clinics like ... Read More

In the rural South where Medicaid has been a lifeline, residents brace for cuts

LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. — East Carroll Parish sits in the northeastern corner of Louisiana, along the winding Mississippi River. Its seat, Lake Providence, was once a thriving agricultural hub of the ... Read More

What Mississippi's infant mortality crisis says about the risks of Medicaid cuts

For months, Dr. Daniel Edney had watched his state's infant mortality rate rise. "It just kept climbing," he remembers. "We'd get another death coming in, another death coming in." As the public ... Read More

Study finds higher cancer survival rates in Medicaid expansion states

Cancer patients are more likely to survive if they live in a state that expanded its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act, new research shows. Patients were more likely to have higher ... Read More