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Health Policy Update
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Who would lose coverage if enhanced premium tax credits (PTCs) expire?
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Four million people could lose their health insurance if PTCs expire in 2025. Urban’s interactive data tool can show you how the expiration would affect states and their residents of different income levels, ages, races, and ethnicities nationwide.
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The changing medical debt landscape in the United States
Millions of Americans have medical debt in collections. Use Urban’s data tool to explore potential debt drivers, local policies’ effects on medical debt, and medical debt in collections by geography over time.
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How many families take on debt to pay for groceries?
In 2023, many families relied on credit and savings to meet their food needs. Nearly one in five adults reported paying for groceries with savings they didn’t intend to use for routine living expenses.
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Mixed-status families and immigrant families with children continued avoiding safety net programs
Nearly one in four adults in mixed-status families and more than one in seven adults in immigrant families with children avoided safety net programs because of green card concerns in 2023.
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Limitations of current approaches to measuring disability status in federal surveys
Standard disability status measures don’t identify a significant share of adults who are likely to have disabilities, and reliance on these measures alone offers an incomplete picture of economic and health disparities.
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Accelerating progress toward health care equity
Urban’s Unequal Treatment at 20 Initiative asks how to make substantial progress toward eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care access, quality, and outcomes. Explore the discussions through the symposium, papers, and virtual dialogues.
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Centering Native perspectives and wisdom
This review examines historical context and ongoing policies that have marginalized Native communities and amplifies the wisdom of Native scholars, centering both intergenerational and modern perspectives on health, well-being, and scientific methodologies.
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