Ashley Kirzinger

if so, it isn't funny

One of the great parts of my job is digging into the data after our initial release. This time I found that we could look at the attitudes of people with Medicaid who are currently working.
My key takeaway is that they value work and also really rely on their Medicaid coverage.

KFF Health Tracking Poll: ACA Enhanced Subsidies | KFF KFF's Health Tracking Poll looks at public awareness and support for ACA Marketplace subsidies and finds that most adults are unaware the subsidies are set to expire soon. Three in four say Congress s...

Most Americans (including MAGA/Republicans and people who don't use the Marketplaces) support the idea of Congress extending the Marketplace subsidy enhancements that are set to expire at the end of this year. www.kff.org/affordable-c... But Congress hasn't done anything to address this.

Tracking the Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill | KFF KFF is tracking the Medicaid provisions in the 2025 federal budget bill, including new Medicaid work and verification requirements and a reduction in the expansion match rate for states that use their...

NEW: We’ve updated our 2025 budget reconciliation tracker to include health provisions included in the proposed Senate bill.

The Senate version’s Medicaid and ACA provisions differ significantly from those in the House-passed bill.

Compare the details:

also shows that initial attitudes are largely just partisan but once messaging breaks through, attitudes could shift rather significantly

New data that shows how majorities of Rs, Ds, and Inds on Medicaid are worried about the government cutting back spending on Medicaid

www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...

Brand new polling from @kff.org finds that in addition to measles spreading...so is misinformation about both the virus and the vaccine

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Stopping all foreign aid spending is not a popular position among the U.S. public.

Many, including half of Republicans, want to see the U.S. scale back rather than end all spending.

The public largely overestimates the share of the budget that goes to foreign aid. Just one in ten (11%) adults correctly say it is about one percent or less.

After hearing the amount, 34% say the U.S. is spending “too much” while two-thirds say the U.S. is spending not enough or too little.

KFF is working hard to get updated polling on so many health policy topics. First up is the public's reaction to Trump admin's actions on USAID and foreign aid funding

Most of the public thinks the downsizing of USAID will lead to increased risks to global health.

www.kff.org/global-healt...

Eliminating the Medicaid Expansion Federal Match Rate: State-by-State Estimates | KFF This analysis examines the potential impacts on states and Medicaid enrollees of eliminating the 90% federal match rate for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansion. Eliminating the federal match rate ...

New: If enhanced federal payments for the ACA Medicaid expansion are eliminated, states have two choices:

1. Make up for the cut, at a cost of $626 billion over a decade.

2. Rollback the expansion, leading to 20 million people losing Medicaid.

www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

In case anyone is looking for what the public actually thinks about Medicaid, a couple resources for you:

General public views on Medicaid: www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...

How people with Medicaid coverage view the program: www.kff.org/mental-healt...

I must admit, I did horribly on this quiz.

And now, about a quarter of Republican parents say they have ever delayed or skipped childhood vaccines for their children. This has more than doubled in less than four years.

How is this all playing out in our country's public health? Let's take a look at the example of childhood vaccines.

While most believe that the benefits of childhood vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) outweigh the risks, this has declined since 2019...especially among Republicans.

Trust in health agencies and officials has long been partisan and this continues to be the case with Democrats more likely than Republicans to express trust in government institutions and federal agencies, while Republicans say they trust President Trump and his choices to oversee these agencies.

First, there has been a considerable and steady decline in trusted sources of health information. Trust in the FDA, CDC, and state and local public health officials to make the right health recommendation has continued the decline we first saw during the COVID-19 pandemic.

KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: January 2025 | KFF As Senate hearings begin for President Trump’s health nominees, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust shows a decline in public trust for govern...

Our latest KFF tracking poll on health information and trust highlights some trends about who the public trusts on health issues and how partisanship and trust play out in public health.
www.kff.org/health-infor...

🧵 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination hearings for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services are scheduled. Let’s dive into the key role HHS plays in health and health care as the department will be in the spotlight next week.

One reason why may be because large shares of the public have connections to Medicaid

I look forward to reading it!

my moved to Maine taught me a lot about how the weather impacts my vision...I thought I was going blind...nope, just dry eye

I second the eye drops. It may be a combination of the dry/cold air and the screens. eye drops helped me a lot...but you have to pay for the good, expensive ones

I was... until summer 2023 when I moved to Maine.

wait, this is in my neck of the woods? how do you feel about non-academics?

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so I got this for my mom this year and every morning she sends us the flavor and her review. it is sooo fun!

It’s a deal!!!

yay! thanks so much and glad you have found it useful!