Worried about health insurance for 2026? Read this
If you buy your own health insurance, or had planned to for next year, you might have seen news stories and social media posts about insurance costs going up.
Nov 21, 2025
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Health Care Economics and Organizations: News and Research on Public Assistance
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SNAP benefit disruptions causing more kids to go without enough healthy food and harming child development
About 4 in 10 of the more than 42 million Americans who get Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are children under 18. This food aid helps their families buy groceries and boosts their health in many ways—both ...
Nov 17, 2025
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Low-wage workers face significant barriers accessing SNAP, Medicaid
Millions of Americans rely on public assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid to meet basic needs for food and health care. Yet a new study from the Brown School at Washington ...
Nov 12, 2025
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Beyond the shutdown: How SNAP budget cuts threaten families' access to food
Payments through SNAP, the federal food assistance program, have been delayed during the government shutdown, but program cuts in this summer's budget bill already put vulnerable families at long-term risk of going hungry.
Nov 11, 2025
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Food stamp expansion in 2021 reduced odds of needy US kids going hungry, research reveals
The 15% expansion of food stamp payments under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP for short, during the COVID-19 pandemic, reduced the odds of needy children going hungry, especially in Hispanic-American ...
Nov 10, 2025
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Child abuse and neglect rates in the US are dropping, but disparities exist
Investigators at Mass General Brigham have found that cases of child abuse and neglect in the United States have declined overall over the last decade, but disparities have persisted and in some cases widened. Poverty, which ...
Nov 10, 2025
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Food insecurity reported in 13.5% of US children in homes receiving benefits
Overall, 13.5% of U.S. children living in households receiving supplemental nutrition benefit programs have food insecurity (FI), according to a research brief published online Nov. 7 in Pediatrics.
Nov 7, 2025
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More Americans, especially Black adults, are dying before they can access Medicare benefits
For 60 years, Medicare has served as a social safety net. Workers pay into the system over their lifetimes with the expectation that they will be able to access affordable health care when they turn 65. But for a growing ...
Nov 7, 2025
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More Americans, especially Black adults, are dying before they can access Medicare benefits, study finds
For 60 years, Medicare has served as a social safety net. Workers pay into the system over their lifetimes with the expectation that they will be able to access affordable health care when they turn 65. But for a growing ...
Nov 7, 2025
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Trump's HHS orders state Medicaid programs to help find undocumented immigrants
The Trump administration has ordered states to investigate certain individuals enrolled in Medicaid to determine whether they are ineligible because of their immigration status, with five states reporting they've together ...
Nov 5, 2025
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