Health policy changes in Washington will ripple through the country, resulting in millions of Americans losing their Medicaid or Affordable Care Act coverage. But there are still ways to find care.

A nationwide experiment to give health care in rural America a $50 billion makeover is underway. The Trump administration, in a late December announcement, revealed how much each state will get under ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Federal health programs will cost over $26 trillion through 2036, under the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline, making health care the largest category of federal spending. In this piece, we ...

Through the President’s landmark Working Families Tax Cuts legislation, unprecedented investments and resources are being directed to states to strengthen rural health care access across the country.

Congress enacted the fiscal year 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) appropriations bill, providing roughly $221 billion in total funding across the ...