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		<title>Key Facts about the Uninsured Population</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/uninsured/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The number and share of people without insurance grew in 2024, increasing for the first time since 2019, according to KFF's analysis of data from the American Community Survey (ACS). This issue brief describes trends in health coverage in 2024, examines the characteristics of the uninsured population , and summarizes the access and financial implications of not having coverage.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Closer Look at California’s Plans to Implement Work Requirements While Facing Major Budget Shortfalls Amid Cuts in Federal Medicaid Funding</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/a-closer-look-at-californias-plans-to-implement-work-requirements-while-facing-major-budget-shortfalls-amid-cuts-in-federal-medicaid-funding/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffakashp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budgets]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This issue brief examines California's Medicaid work requirement implementation plans to provide initial insight into how California is preparing to implement work requirements amid projected state budget shortfalls and changes in the 2025 reconciliation law.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">706073</post-id>
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			<media:description type="html">What Is the Budgetary Context as California Prepares to Implement Work Requirements?</media:description>
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		<title>Insurers’ Prior Authorization Data Offers Little Insight Into What Gets Approved or Denied</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/quick-take/insurers-prior-authorization-data-offers-little-insight-into-what-gets-approved-or-denied/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcarenec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACA Marketplaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Advantage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prescription Drugs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Certain insurers must now publicly report specific prior authorization metrics, but the new data offer limited insight, providing no information on what types of services are being approved and denied or why as well as no data on prescription drugs. ]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">706045</post-id>
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		<title>The New Ideas Conundrum in Health Policy</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/from-drew-altman/the-new-ideas-conundrum-in-health-policy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kfftammies]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a new column, President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman writes about the "conundrum of health policy ideas" facing Democrats searching for new proposals because of competing, and complex, priorities: rebuilding Medicaid and the ACA after trillion-dollar cuts, reconstructing federal health agencies, and tackling underlying health care costs, when candidates want simple ideas they can campaign on and voters want their costs to come down. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements Data and Policies</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-state-national-data-and-policies/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-state-national-data-and-policies/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Detailed state and national data related to the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">698377</post-id>
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		<title>Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-enrollment-and-unwinding-tracker/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffpatrickd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uninsured]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This tracker presents the most recent Medicaid data on renewals and disenrollments available for each state as well as monthly enrollment data during the unwinding period. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Monthly Child Enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/total-medicaid-and-chip-child-enrollment/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffvannn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<title>Total Monthly Medicaid &amp; CHIP Enrollment and Pre-ACA Enrollment</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/state-indicator/total-monthly-medicaid-and-chip-enrollment/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffalannaw]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
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		<title>Medicaid and CHIP Monthly Enrollment</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-and-chip-monthly-enrollment/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffnatalies]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>States Reporting Medicaid MCO Minimum Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Remittance Requirements</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/states-reporting-medicaid-mco-minimum-medical-loss-ratio-mlr-remittance-requirements/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcleab]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Medicaid MCO For-Profit Parent Firm Financial Information</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-mco-parent-firm-financial-information/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffsamanr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Medicaid Managed Care Penetration Rates by Eligibility Group</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/managed-care-penetration-rates-by-eligibility-group/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffalannaw]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
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		<title>What to Know About the BALANCE Model for GLP-1s in Medicare and Medicaid</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicare/what-to-know-about-the-balance-model-for-glp-1s-in-medicare-and-medicaid/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicare/what-to-know-about-the-balance-model-for-glp-1s-in-medicare-and-medicaid/#respond</comments>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chronic Diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Human Services (HHS)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Part D]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief describes current coverage of GLP-1s in Medicare and Medicaid, the Centers for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Services’ (CMS) efforts to expand access and lower costs for GLP-1s through temporary demonstration programs including the BALANCE Model, and potential impacts on beneficiaries and program budgets.]]></description>
		
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		<title>10 Things to Know About Medicaid Managed Care</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/10-things-to-know-about-medicaid-managed-care/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our updated explainer provides an overview of comprehensive managed care, the most common way states deliver Medicaid services to enrollees.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>State Medicaid Coverage of OTC Contraception Without a Prescription</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/state-medicaid-coverage-of-otc-contraception-without-a-prescription/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffsophiam]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Extension Tracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This page tracks recent state actions to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage, including approved and pending 1115 waivers, legislation that will require the state to seek federal approval through a SPA or 1115 waiver, submitted and approved SPAs, and coverage financed solely with state funds. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Eight Trends Shaping 2026 Health Care Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premiums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prescription Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budgets]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new Peterson-KFF policy explainer lays out the health care trends shaping the 2026 policy debates, including rising premiums, spending on prescription drugs, health care price transparency and consolidation, artificial intelligence in health care, Medicaid funding cuts and other key program changes.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Navigating Uncertainty: The Latest Challenge to the Title X Family Planning Safety Net</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/quick-take/navigating-uncertainty-the-latest-challenge-to-the-title-x-family-planning-safety-net/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Health Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Planning]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Administration's latest funding deadline and guidance shift intensifies pressure to the reproductive health safety net at a time when the number of uninsured individuals is projected to rise due to Medicaid cuts and expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, and Planned Parenthood clinics have lost their federal Medicaid funding.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CMS’ New Approach to Federal Medicaid Spending in Cases of Potential Fraud</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/cms-new-approach-to-federal-medicaid-spending-in-cases-of-potential-fraud/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CMS has recently announced a new approach to fraud that will rely more heavily on options to pause or withhold significant amounts of federal funding in cases of potential fraud, which could have broad implications for states and enrollees. This issue brief explains the new approach.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>5 Key Facts About Medicaid Prescription Drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prescription Drugs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[To provide context for emerging debates about federal actions to address prescription drug costs, this issue brief highlights five key facts about Medicaid prescription drug coverage, payment, and administration.]]></description>
		
		
		
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