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		<title>Medicare Advantage in 2026: Premiums, Out-of-Pocket Limits, Supplemental Benefits, and Prior Authorization</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief provides information about Medicare Advantage plans in 2026, including premiums, out-of-pocket limits, supplemental benefits, and prior authorization, as well as trends over time. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Medicare Advantage in 2026: Enrollment Update and Key Trends</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[More than half (55%) of eligible Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage in 2026. To better understand trends in the growth of the Medicare Advantage program, this brief provides current information about enrollment, including by plan type and firm]]></description>
		
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		<title>Litigation Involving Reproductive Health and Rights in the Federal Courts</title>
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					<comments>https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/litigation-involving-reproductive-health-and-rights-in-the-federal-courts/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Women's Health Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reproductive Health]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This State and Federal Reproductive Rights Litigation tracker aggregates information about ongoing litigation regarding abortion bans and restrictions, FDA approval of Mifepristone (an abortion pill) and other federal regulations.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Elimination of Federal Diversity Initiatives: Updates and Current Status</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/elimination-of-federal-diversity-initiatives-updates-and-current-status/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kfflayotah]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gender Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race/Ethnicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reproductive Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Substance Use]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This issue brief provides an update on the status of the Trump administration's actions to eliminate DEI-related initiatives and the impact on racial health disparities.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">709969</post-id>
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		<title>Global COVID-19 Tracker</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffannar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This tracker provides data on global COVID-19 cases and deaths by country, region, and income-level. Additionally, the tracker reports current closure, economic, and health system policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic globally. This tracker will be updated as new data are available.  ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>U.S. International Family Planning &#038; Reproductive Health: Requirements in Law and Policy</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/u-s-international-family-planning-reproductive-health-requirements-in-law-and-policy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffkelliem]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Health Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Cooperation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PEPFAR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reproductive Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Programs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Summarizes the major statutory requirements and policies pertaining to U.S. global family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) efforts over time and identifies those currently in effect.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is AI Better for Patients?</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/other-health/is-ai-better-for-patients/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/other-health/is-ai-better-for-patients/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffconnorg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Care Coordination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delivery System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health I.T.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health System Performance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medical Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treatment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is AI Better for patients? What is changing on the ground? Chip talks with Dr. Patrick Conway, Chief Executive Officer of Optum, a health services and technology business under parent company, UnitedHealth Group. They discuss how to ensure the health care industry’s use of AI serves patients first, particularly when the same company bears financial risk and builds the AI that decides who gets care. They also discuss whether use of AI can make value-based care the dominant payment framework, after two decades of policymaker support for the model.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements: 1115-waivers</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-1115-waivers/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-1115-waivers/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[State-by-state information on Medicaid 1115 work requirement waivers.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Work Requirements: Related Resources</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-resources/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-resources/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[KFF resources on the Medicaid work requirements in the 2025 Reconcilation law. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements Implementation Questions</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-implementation-questions/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-implementation-questions/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A list of the implementation questions relating to the Medicaid work requirements in the 2025 Reconciliation law.  ]]></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, 01 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></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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		<title>Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medicaid-work-requirements-tracker-overview/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[KFF's interactive tracks key data and policies that will affect how states implement Medicaid work requirements, which are required under the 2025 budget reconciliation law starting in January 2027. The tracker includes state-level data on Medicaid enrollment and renewal outcomes as well as current state enrollment and renewal policies. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffpatrickd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 21:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uninsured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<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>A Closer Look at North Carolina’s Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law Medicaid Provisions and Other Changes Amid Medicaid Budget Shortfalls</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/a-closer-look-at-north-carolinas-implementation-of-the-2025-reconciliation-law-medicaid-provisions-and-other-changes-amid-medicaid-budget-shortfalls/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jada Raphael]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This policy watch provides initial insight into how North Carolina is preparing to implement certain Medicaid provisions of the 2025 reconciliation law and how other policy changes may affect coverage and access to care. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Medicare Advantage Out-of-Pocket Limits: Variation and Trends</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicare/medicare-advantage-out-of-pocket-limits-variation-and-trends/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmeredithf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 17:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Advantage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traditional Medicare]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief analyzes out-of-pocket limits in Medicare Advantage plans in 2026, variation by plan type, the distribution of enrollees facing different out-of-pocket limits, and trends over time.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hantavirus Outbreak Revives COVID-Era False Health Claims — The Monitor</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/health-information-trust/hantavirus-outbreak-revives-covid-era-false-health-claims/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffhagerey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Information and Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A hantavirus outbreak linked to a Dutch cruise ship in early May was followed by false health claims that mirror patterns documented in previous outbreaks. The Monitor also examines a new analysis of Americans’ relationship with health and wellness influencers.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Drew Altman, Founding President and CEO of KFF, Announces Retirement Plans; Board Appoints Larry Levitt and Mollyann Brodie as Next Leadership Team</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/other-health/drew-altman-founding-president-ceo-kff-announces-retirement/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/other-health/drew-altman-founding-president-ceo-kff-announces-retirement/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffrobins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Health]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dr. Altman has led the organization for nearly 40 years; Levitt and Dr. Brodie to assume leadership roles next year, after a combined six decades at KFF in senior positions guiding policy research and polling.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Medical Frailty Exemption from Medicaid Work Requirements: Key Issues to Watch for in Upcoming CMS Guidance</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/medically-frail-exemptions-for-medicaid-work-requirements-key-issues-to-watch-for-in-upcoming-cms-guidance/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffamayad]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronic Diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nebraska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief describes early state plans to operationalize the medical frailty exemption for Medicaid work requirements and identifies key issues and questions states are facing, some of which may be answered in forthcoming CMS guidance.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Key Facts About Health Care Affordability for People With Medicare</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicare/key-facts-about-health-care-affordability-for-people-with-medicare/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffnancyo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dual Eligible Individuals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income and Assets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Part D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief presents key facts and analysis about affordability of health care costs among people with Medicare, including younger adults with long-term disabilities, drawing on data from various sources.]]></description>
		
		
		
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			<media:title type="html">Out-Of-Pocket Health Care Costs Accounted for 39% of per Capita Social Security Income for People With Medicare in 2023 on Average (16x9)_FI</media:title>
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		<title>Tracking Key Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Actions Under the Trump Administration</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/mental-health/tracking-key-mental-health-and-substance-use-policy-actions-under-the-trump-administration/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffnirmitap]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 17:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opioids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Substance Use]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new KFF tracker highlights key federal policy actions during President Trump’s second term that concern issues related to mental health and substance use. The second Trump administration has emphasized law-and-order strategies and scaled back several mental health and substance use-related services, while also continuing some treatment-focused initiatives. The tracker can be viewed in multiple ways, including chronological order of policy actions and by category (Mental Health; Opioids/Substance Use Disorder; Federal Infrastructure/ Data/Guidance; and Gun Violence).]]></description>
		
		
		
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