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		<title>Tracking Insurer Participation Changes in the ACA Marketplaces in 2027</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/tracking-insurer-participation-changes-in-the-aca-marketplaces-in-2027/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffjaredo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Private Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACA Marketplaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This interactive tracks announced insurer exits from and entries into the ACA Marketplaces for 2027.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Which States Will Be Affected by Key Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Law?</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/which-states-will-be-affected-by-key-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-reconciliation-law/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/which-states-will-be-affected-by-key-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-reconciliation-law/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffanthonym]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uninsured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Work Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 2025 reconciliation law makes sweeping changes to Medicaid that will affect every state through key eligibility and financing changes, including new work requirements, immigrant eligibility restrictions, and changes to provider taxes and state directed payments. This issue brief explains which states will be affected by each of these key provisions. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Midterm Election Update: Vaccines</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/elections/midterm-election-update-vaccines/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/elections/midterm-election-update-vaccines/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcarenec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Measles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaccines]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Federal vaccine policy has shifted toward fewer recommended routine childhood vaccinations, more emphasis on individual decision-making, and greater skepticism about the safety and efficacy of some vaccines. The changes coincide with declining childhood vaccination rates, rising exemptions from school vaccine requirements, and a major measles resurgence. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Global COVID-19 Tracker</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/covid-19/global-covid-19-tracker/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffannar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infectious Disease]]></category>
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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>Midterm Election Update: The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/elections/midterm-election-update-the-affordable-care-act-marketplaces/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/elections/midterm-election-update-the-affordable-care-act-marketplaces/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcarenec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACA Marketplaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fraud, Waste and Abuse]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[More people than ever got coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces in 2025, but the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits has driven up what people pay and contributed to declining enrollment in 2026. Law and regulatory changes also tightened ACA eligibility and enrollment requirements. Public opinion of the ACA remains generally favorable, although views remain divided along partisan lines.]]></description>
		
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		<title>AI: Does Europe Have the Answer?</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/other-health/ai-does-europe-have-the-answer/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/other-health/ai-does-europe-have-the-answer/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffconnorg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 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[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health I.T.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health System Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Workforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treatment]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.kff.org/?p=718033</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[When health systems are stressed, Martin McKee has been there taking notes. He's spent four decades studying collapse and recovery — the post-Soviet transition, the 2008 financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and research director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, he's turned that lens on AI. He arrives at a charged moment: America is locked in a debate over whether AI development should slow down or even pause. Europe made a different choice — binding AI with some of the world's strictest rules. After a run of episodes examining AI through a U.S. lens, Chip and McKee cross the Atlantic: What does the American debate look like from Europe — and does regulation offer an answer that a pause cannot?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poll: Cost of Health Care and Gas Top Voters&#8217; Midterm Concerns; Democrats Hold Significant Advantage on Health Care Costs and Cost of Living </title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/poll-cost-of-health-care-and-gas-top-voters-midterm-concerns-democrats-hold-significant-advantage-on-health-care-costs-and-cost-of-living/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/poll-cost-of-health-care-and-gas-top-voters-midterm-concerns-democrats-hold-significant-advantage-on-health-care-costs-and-cost-of-living/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kfftiffanyf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare-for-all]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just a month away from the midterm elections, affordability worries continue to top the public’s list of midterm election issues, with health care costs and gas costs tying as the top economic concern, KFF’s new Health Tracking Poll finds. Voters overall trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the cost of health care and the cost of living.]]></description>
		
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		<title>KFF Health Tracking Poll: Health Care Issues in the Lead-Up to the 2026 Midterm Election </title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/kff-health-tracking-poll-health-care-issues-in-the-lead-up-to-the-2026-midterm-election/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/kff-health-tracking-poll-health-care-issues-in-the-lead-up-to-the-2026-midterm-election/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmardetm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fraud, Waste and Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare-for-all]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premiums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the 2026 midterms about a month away, health care costs remain tied with gas as voters’ top midterm concerns and the Democrats hold a clear edge over the Republicans Party on who voters trust to handle many top electoral issues, including the cost of health care and the cost of living. Two-thirds of U.S. adults now favor Medicare-for-all, a new high in KFF Polling, but support shifts when competing claims from critics and proponents are heard.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Current and Historical Public Opinion on Medicare-for-All and Other National Health Plan Proposals</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/current-and-historical-public-opinion-on-medicare-for-all-and-other-national-health-plan-proposals/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/current-and-historical-public-opinion-on-medicare-for-all-and-other-national-health-plan-proposals/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmardetm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare-for-all]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Programs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This chart pack summarizes KFF polling data on public opinion on Medicare-for-all and other national health plan proposals. The latest update finds that two-thirds of the public supports Medicare-for-all, while support changes drastically as respondents hear arguments from proponents and critics.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is This A Healthcare Economy?</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/health-costs/what-impact-has-the-coronavirus-pandemic-had-on-health-care-employment-2/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig "Moondog" Palosky]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Workforce]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This analysis examines recent jobs growth in health care and how it compares to the rest of the economy. Health care employment has grown faster than other sectors of the economy, with jobs in physician offices, hospitals, outpatient care centers, home health, and other settings increasing over the past year even as the rest of the job market plateaued. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>As HHS Restores the LGBTQ 988 Suicide and Crisis Line Under Pressure From Congress, Questions Remain</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/lgbtq/as-hhs-restores-the-lgbtq-988-suicide-and-crisis-line-under-pressure-from-congress-questions-remain/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/lgbtq/as-hhs-restores-the-lgbtq-988-suicide-and-crisis-line-under-pressure-from-congress-questions-remain/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kfflindseyd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[LGBTQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crisis Services / 988]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender Identity]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[988 is the federally mandated suicide and crisis line, overseen by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Between March 2023 and June 2025, and at the direction of Congress, 988 offered a specific service to meet the needs of LGBTQ young people. The service was ended under the Trump Administration in July 2025, at a time when utilization was increasing. This Policy Watch explores these policy developments and data on the LGBTQ line utilization. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rural and Urban Health Center Patients and Financing</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/rural-and-urban-health-center-patients-and-financing/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/rural-and-urban-health-center-patients-and-financing/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffakashp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racial Equity and Health Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACA Marketplaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dual Eligible Individuals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Centers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telehealth]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief reports on rural and urban health center patients and financing in 2025 using national data from the Uniform Data System (UDS) and examines potential impacts of recent federal policy changes. ]]></description>
		
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			<media:title type="html">Rural Health Centers Make Up 4 in 10 Health Centers_FI</media:title>
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		<title>Community Health Center Patients, Financing, and Services</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/community-health-center-patients-financing-and-services/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffakashp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uninsured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Utilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Centers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race/Ethnicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rural Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telehealth]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Community health centers served more than 32.7 million patients in medically underserved urban and rural areas in 2025. This brief reports on health center patients, services, and financing in 2025, using national data from the Uniform Data System (UDS).]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>States’ Use of Program Integrity Tools in Medicaid Home Care</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/states-use-of-program-integrity-tools-in-medicaid-home-care/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/states-use-of-program-integrity-tools-in-medicaid-home-care/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffabbyw]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fraud, Waste and Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home care/HCBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long-Term Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waivers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This issue brief provides new information about Medicaid home care program's use of program integrity tools from KFF’s most recent survey of state Medicaid home care programs. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Look at Waiting Lists for Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services from 2016 to 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/a-look-at-waiting-lists-for-medicaid-home-and-community-based-services-from-2016-to-2026/</link>
					<comments>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/a-look-at-waiting-lists-for-medicaid-home-and-community-based-services-from-2016-to-2026/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffabbyw]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Workforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home care/HCBS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long-Term Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waivers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This data note provides new information about waiting lists from KFF’s most recent survey of state Medicaid home care programs, including a discussion of why waiting lists are an incomplete measure of unmet need and why they are not necessarily comparable across states or over time, despite KFF’s efforts to obtain as consistent data as possible.]]></description>
		
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			<media:description type="html">The Number of States with Waiting Lists or Interest Lists for Medicaid Home Care Has Been Fairly Stable Since 2016 
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		<title>Many Medicare Part D Stand-Alone Drug Plan Enrollees Will See Modest Premium Increases for 2027, But Others Could Pay Much More If They Don’t Switch Plans</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicare/many-medicare-part-d-stand-alone-drug-plan-enrollees-will-see-modest-premium-increases-for-2027-but-others-could-pay-much-more-if-they-dont-switch-plans/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffjuliettec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Sharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Advantage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Part D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premiums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prescription Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief analyzes the Medicare Part D stand-alone prescription drug plan (PDP) market for 2027. The analysis shows that there will be a modest reduction in the number of PDPs for 2027, along with modest premium increases less than $10 per month for many enrollees, but much larger monthly premium increases of $50 or more for others if they don’t change plans.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Medicare 101</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicare/health-policy-101-medicare/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffcarenec]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Advantage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Part D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This Health Policy 101 chapter explores Medicare, a federal health insurance program covering more than 68 million people, established in 1965 for people age 65 or older and later expanded to cover people under age 65 with long-term disabilities. In addition to detailing Medicare eligibility, coverage, and spending, the chapter examines the increased role of private plans in providing benefits and the financing challenges posed by increasing health care costs and an aging population.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicaid/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffmichaelp]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Health Policy and Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coverage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waivers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This page displays an interactive map of the current status of state decisions on the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. Additional Medicaid expansion resources are listed (with links) below the map.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Average Medicare Beneficiary has 28 Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan Options for 2027</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/medicare/the-average-medicare-beneficiary-has-28-medicare-advantage-prescription-drug-plan-options-for-2027/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffjeanniefb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare Advantage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The average Medicare beneficiary will have 28 Medicare Advantage prescription drug (MA_PD) plans available for general enrollment in 2027. The number of plans varies widely across states. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Is The Federal Government Counting Measles Deaths?</title>
		<link>https://www.kff.org/other-health/how-is-the-federal-government-counting-measles-deaths/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kffjoshuam]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Epidemics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Measles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., changed how the federal government tracks deaths in its official measles tally, after Pennsylvania reported four deaths. This Policy Watch reviews the two roles, strengths, and weaknesses of the two public health surveillance systems at the center of this change: the Nationally Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) and the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS).]]></description>
		
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