In his latest Beyond the Data column, KFF President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman examines the controversial rural hospital grant program, noting “Will the new $50 billion rural hospital grant program in the big Republican tax and spending law just amount to a bunch of ribbon cutting and big check ceremonies, or will it help rural hospitals offset coming Medicaid cuts, help them in general, or all of the above?”| From Drew Altman Archive | KFF
In his latest Beyond the Data column, President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman discusses whether Democrats can make the Medicaid and ACA cuts a winning political issue before the midterm elections and before most people feel the cuts.| KFF
In his latest column, President and CEO Drew Altman discusses how, with nearly half, or about 10 million MAGA supporters and Republicans receiving coverage through the ACA Marketplaces, the policy changes and cuts being considered by Republicans to the Marketplaces will directly affect their own voters. Altman writes: "Republicans are no longer interested in repealing the ACA but seem comfortable shrinking it significantly if they can, so long as they don’t touch protections for pre-existin...| From Drew Altman Archive | KFF
In this column, KFF President and CEO Drew Altman examines the data and history around adding work requirements to Medicaid and why the administrative burdens it imposes may offset any savings even for states that ideologically favor such an approach.| From Drew Altman Archive | KFF
Together we can rewrite tax codes to stimulate economic growth, reduce income inequality, and narrow the gaps in income and wealth created by centuries of racism.| State Innovation Exchange
We must confront and dismantle the long history of racism and discrimination in our nation’s response to poverty.| State Innovation Exchange
Low-income communities and communities of color bear the largest burden of our states’ transportation decisions.| State Innovation Exchange