Frontiers | Mapping for Engagement: Setting up a Community Based Participatory Research Project to Reach Underserved Communities at Risk for Hepatitis C in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Front. Public Health , 09 February 2022 Sec. Public Health Education and…

Frontiers | Mapping for Engagement: Setting up a Community Based Participatory Research Project to Reach Underserved Communities at Risk for Hepatitis C in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Front. Public Health , 09 February 2022 Sec. Public Health Education and…

Income before (green) and after (pink) taxes and transfer payments for different income groups starting with the lowest quintile Income inequality has fluctuated considerably in the United States since measurements began around 1915, moving in an arc between peaks in the 1920s an…

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U.S. federal government debt (united states national debt) Federal debt to annual revenue ratio . The federal government has a debt-to-revenue ratio of 6.5 to 1 as of Q3 2025. National debt of the United States The federal government debt as of April 2026 [update] is $39 trillion…

Editorial Note Originally published on July 1 with estimates for the Senate Reconciliation Bill, this brief was revised significantly and updated on July 23 to reflect the latest CBO estimates on the impact of the enacted reconciliation package. On July 4, President Trump signed …

The case for replacing "Silver Loading" The case for replacing “Silver Loading” Matthew Fiedler May 20 2021 Editor’s Note: This analysis is part of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy , which is a partnership between Economic Studies at Brookings and the Univ…

Eligibility and Cost Sharing Policies Section 71119: Work Requirements Background Prior to passage of the federal budget reconciliation law, Medicaid eligibility could not be conditioned on meeting a work or reporting requirement without obtaining a Medicaid Section 1115 waiver. …

Note: KFF’s analysis was updated on July 1, 2025 to include Wisconsin in the allocation of spending reductions due to the work requirement provision and to include Delaware in the allocation of spending reductions due to changes in state-directed payments (see Methods ). On May 2…

Editorial Note : Originally published in June, this brief was updated on August 20 to reflect new CBO estimates of the reconciliation law’s impact. President Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025 a budget reconciliation package (formerly called the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) t…

The Center for Medicare Advocacy has long advocated for leveling the playing field between Medicare Advantage (MA) and traditional Medicare. Over the last several years, however, legislative and regulatory policy changes have continued to tip the scales in favor of MA over tradit…

The Center for Medicare Advocacy has long advocated for leveling the playing field between Medicare Advantage (MA) and traditional Medicare. Over the last several years, however, legislative and regulatory policy changes have continued to tip the scales in favor of MA over tradit…

Note: This analysis was updated to include the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest cost estimates for the reconciliation package that was enacted on July 4, 2025, as well as new provisions in the law. On July 4, President Trump signed into law a budget reconciliation packa…

The National Institutes of Health estimates that more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness, or roughly 57.8 million in 2021. Mental illnesses include conditions of varying severity, from mild to severe. Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released …

There are several options under consideration in Congress to significantly reduce Medicaid spending to help pay for an extension of expiring tax cuts. Medicaid is the primary program providing comprehensive health and long-term care to one in five people living in the U.S. and ac…