Cynthia Cox
@cynthiaccox
Vice President @KFF. Researching Affordable Care Act, health costs, outcomes & access to care. Partner w/ @PetersonCHealth on http://www.HealthSystemTracker.org
“The biggest rollback in federal support for health coverage ever.” Read @larry_levitt (as always) nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opi…
Republicans are poised to pass the biggest cuts in health coverage ever. @nytopinion nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opi…
Levitt, NYT, the facts on the OBBB. Just out: nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opi…
We’ve never seen health care cuts this big @larry_levitt @KFF nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opi…
Updated: CBO estimates that P.L. 119-21 ("Big Beautiful Bill") will increase by 10 million the number of people without health insurance in 2034. cbo.gov/publication/61…
More than 24 million Americans could see their ACA healthcare premiums surge by an average of 75% starting January 2026, according to new analysis from @KFF. Cynthia Cox, president and director of KFF’s ACA program, breaks down the findings.
Take an early look at the front page of The Wall Street Journal's weekend edition. on.wsj.com/4508I84
The Center is excited to welcome Christina Wu, MPH as an Associate Director of Policy. Previously, Christina supported efforts on data transparency, beneficiary choice, and market competition at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). She also has experience…
Most adults on Medicaid already work, because you can't use Medicaid to pay your rent or your grocery bills. It's health insurance that pays your medical bills if you get sick.
Steve Scalise: "Disabled people will get better Medicaid under this bill because all of the fully able-bodied -- the 35-year-old guy sitting at home playing video games in his mom's basement -- he's gonna have to go work, because we put work requirements in place. And so he will…
Rep. Warren Davidson flips to YES on the Senate OBBBA. He voted NO on the original House bill. x.com/Rep_Davidson/s…
This bill isn’t perfect, but it’s the best we’ll get & includes major wins: • Secures the border • Pro-growth tax policy • Medicaid work requirements • Enhanced Food Stamp work requirement • Cuts to Biden’s Green New Deal • Drops AI surveillance For these reasons, I’m…
New: Here’s how much bigger the Medicaid cuts are, by state, in the Senate bill vs. the House. @Liz_Williams_ kff.org/quick-take/sen…
There's a lot of focus on what Medicaid and ACA cuts would mean for hospitals, because hospitals have lobbyists. That doesn't negate what the cuts would mean for people, with about 12 million people projected to become uninsured due to the megabill.
Another 5 percent of the U.S. population could lose health insurance coverage -- that's roughly a 50% increase in the uninsured rate kff.org/quick-take/abo…
⚡ KFF’s @cynthiaccox explains how millions of people are expected to lose health insurance coverage over the next decade with cuts to Medicaid and the ACA in the reconciliation bill, as well as other ACA changes not in the bill. #QuickTake on.kff.org/3GrJ9V5
the Senate-passed version of the Big Beautiful Bill has a wacky SNAP cut provision, rewritten to win over Lisa Murkowski, that appears to give states an incentive make MORE erroneous SNAP payments instead of fewer. House members are literally laughing at it
Amid the Senate’s “vote-a-rama” for the One Big, Beautiful Bill, @KFF has updated our guide to the health provisions affecting the Marketplaces, Medicaid, Medicare, and more. kff.org/tracking-the-a…
And that's not counting the at least 5 million people, likely many more, who would lose ACA coverage either because of new enrollment requirements and restrictions or because the coverage becomes unaffordable with the loss of enhanced premium subsidies.
“CBO estimates that enacting the substitute amendment would increase by 11.8 million the number of people without health insurance in 2034.“
Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to the Budget Enforcement Baseline for Consideration in the Senate. cbo.gov/publication/61…
One of the biggest flashpoints for the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" has been its impact on roughly 1800 rural hospitals, which is why Senate Republicans are proposing a new $15 billion rural health fund. However, there are still questions and concerns about the bill 👇 (1/7)