Insights Column

Sowing Distrust and Dismantling Science: Escalating Threats to Vaccine Access

Vaccines represent some of the greatest public health achievements in history, building on science, expert policy and public trust to strengthen America’s security and protect millions of lives acro...

What the Government Shutdown Debate is Really About: Health Care Tax Credits for Working Class Americans

Vice President JD Vance outright lied when he posted on X and said on Fox News that the government shutdown is over demands for illegal immigrants to get health care. No such demands exist. The issue ...

Behind the Numbers: The Real Americans who will be Hardest Hit if Congress Lets Premium Tax Credits Expire

Across the country, 22 million Americans use health care tax credits to afford their health care coverage. With costs for everything rising, from groceries to rent to health care, without the support ...

Vulnerable, Working Class Americans will be Hardest Hit if Congress Lets Premium Tax Credits Expire

Millions of people benefit from premium tax credits that help them buy and afford health coverage on healthcare.gov or on state-based marketplaces. In light of rising health care costs and the huge im...

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...