Fact Sheet

Adding a Dental Benefit to Medicare Part B: What About Medicare Advantage or Medigap Plans?

Today, Medicare excludes coverage of routine preventive and restorative oral health care except in limited circumstances. As a result, only half of Medicare enrollees saw a dental provider in the last...

Attention Health Care Consumers: Free Health Insurance Is Available for People Who Lost Coverage When They Lost Their Jobs or Hours of Work during COVID-19

This fact sheet explains options for getting free or low-cost health insurance through COBRA or state continuation coverage, the marketplace, and Medicaid and CHIP. People who lost their job-based cov...

Principles to Advance Child Health and Well-Being in the 117th Congress: What Children and Families Need from Policymakers

As policymakers continue to focus on addressing the health and economic fallout from COVID-19, it is critical that the needs of children and families do not get lost in the shuffle. Even before the pa...

What Children and Families Need From the 117th Congress: Policy Recommendations to Improve their Health and Well-Being

In honor of Mother’s Day, we would like to reshare our 117th Congress Policy Recommendations for Children and Families. As Congress and the Biden Administration consider how best to advance criti...

Appendix 1- The Catastrophic Cost of Uninsurance, By County: COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Closely Tied to America’s Health Coverage Gaps

In this appendix, we estimate the relationship between health insurance gaps and COVID-19 infections and deaths through February 1, 2021, assuming that associations between county population character...

Appendix 2- The Catastrophic Cost of Uninsurance, By County: COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Closely Tied to America’s Health Coverage Gaps

This appendix estimates the impact of health coverage gaps on COVID-19 cases and deaths, at the county level. It begins by listing the individual counties that have experienced the greatest total impa...

Finishing the Job: Americans Want Action on the Cost of Health Care This Year, New Poll Shows

No one in this country should have to worry that they can’t afford the health care they need or have to choose between filling a prescription and paying rent or a mortgage. Families across America a...

Supreme Court Decision Will Determine Whether Millions of Americans Will Lose Health Coverage

On November 10, the Supreme Court, with either eight or nine justices, will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit that seeks to strike down the Affordable Care Act and eliminate critical health care protec...

U.S. Health Care in the Midst of a Global Pandemic: A Message from Rural America

In 2020, America has found itself in the grips of a global pandemic that triggered the worst health and economic crises in generations. While the long-term ramifications from the COVID-19 (2019 Novel ...

Previous Temporary Increases to the Federal Medicaid Match Have Been Critical to Pandemics and Economic Downturns and Have Phased Out Without Controversy

As Congress considers an urgently needed package of pandemic response measures, questions have arisen regarding whether a temporary increase to the federal Medicaid matching percentage will become per...