Insights Column

The Biggest Threats to Maternal Health Lurking in President Trump’s Health Care Cuts

Republican health care cuts exceeding $1 trillion threaten to destabilize maternal health, posing significant risks to postpartum coverage and reproductive health care, support systems on which millio...

Secretary Kennedy’s Broken Promises and the Impact on Americans’ Health

On Thursday, September 4, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee following weeks of increasing uncertainty and upheaval at our na...

Planned Parenthood: Still Essential, Still Under Threat

Planned Parenthood provides vital health care services to nearly 2.1 million people across the country. Like independent abortion care providers that are also essential and also remain under threat ma...

August of Accountability: Republicans’ Actions in July Are Causing Insurance Rates to Skyrocket

As Insurers Release Their Proposed Rates in All 50 States, Consumers to Face Shocking Premium Hikes The Republican health care cuts signed into law by President Trump this summer will have devastat...

A Trillion Dollar Cut to Care: The Fight for Medicare and Medicaid

Commemorating 60 Years of Vital Programs — A Legacy in Jeopardy For 60 years, Medicare and Medicaid have been defining features of the health care landscape, serving as a vital lifeline by providin...

Timeline of Trump’s New Health Care Law: What You Need to Know

Earlier this month, Republicans in Congress passed, and President Trump signed, their “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which includes the largest health care cuts in history: more than $1 trillion over 1...

Not Just a Budget Cut: How 17 Million Lives Are Being Harmed by “One Big Beautiful Bill”

Earlier this month, President Trump and Republican lawmakers’ big budget bill that guts Medicaid and threatens access to health care for 17 million Americans was signed into law. Now, families brace...

Actions by Trump and Congress are Leading to Skyrocketing Insurance Premiums in 2026

President Trump and his Republican allies in Congress just passed the big budget bill which included the biggest cut to our health care system in history — $1 trillion — and put into law several d...

Marketplace Final Rule Sets Major Hurdles to Coverage

UPDATE: This rule is temporarily blocked from going into effect due to an August 22 injunction. The Trump administration finalized a dangerous rule that will make it much harder for people to enroll ...

Congress’ Provider Tax Proposals Would Be A Huge Blow to State Budgets

Proposals in the House-passed and Senate-proposed budget bills to freeze and/or cut health care provider taxes put all state Medicaid budgets in an extremely precarious position. What’s more, these ...