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In this issue of AcademyHealth's Situation Report, we cover a Senate inquiry into flawed Medicaid eligibility systems, escalating instability at the CDC, and deep cuts to mental health services. We also highlight our concerns around cuts to nation’s health data infrastructure.
Posted Oct 16, 2025
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The cuts to the National Center for Health Statistics pose a threat to the collection of vital statistics that improve health and health systems. The resulting data gaps could have a lasting impact.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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In this issue of AcademyHealth's Situation Report, we highlight mass layoffs at HHS as the government shutdown continues, further confusion around vaccine guidance and patient safety, and declining public trust in the CDC.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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In this issue of AcademyHealth’s Situation Report, we new challenges to scientific integrity and public health leadership as former top officials express concern about vaccine policy changes and agency cuts, while the Supreme Court considers a case with implications for LGBTQ+ youth mental health and health equity.
Posted Oct 9, 2025
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In this issue of AcademyHealth’s Situation Report, we examine growing financial and operational strain on health systems due to Medicaid cuts, shifting vaccine policies that are complicating pediatric care, and new questions about federal public health leadership. These developments have significant implications for access, equity, and the stability of health systems and care delivery nationwide.
Posted Oct 7, 2025
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In this issue of AcademyHealth’s Situation Report, we examine a historic exodus of federal health experts and widespread furloughs are crippling key agencies like the FDA and CDC, while disappearing CDC webpages and the expiration of Medicare-funded care programs raise urgent concerns about public health access, transparency, and research continuity.
Posted Oct 2, 2025
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In this issue of AcademyHealth's Situation Report, we examine ongoing shutdown negotiations affecting ACA subsidies and Medicaid work requirements, as well as AHRQ’s new research strategy and its implications for health equity and implementation science.
Posted Sep 30, 2025
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In this issue of AcademyHealth's Situation Report, we examine AHRQ’s newly released priorities, expert responses to recent claims on autism and vaccines, and the latest on the government shutdown.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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In this issue of AcademyHealth's Situation Report, we examine the GAO's challenge to AHRQ impoundments, marking a critical juncture for federal health research funding, alongside the potential impacts of proposed Medicaid cuts and ACA tax credit shifts on health care access and affordability.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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Congress is formally asking GAO to investigate if the collapse of AHRQ grantmaking that AcademyHealth has identified constitutes an unlawful impoundment