An AHA blog published March 24 responds to a recent KFF brief on the role of hospital care in recent health care spending growth. It explains why hospital spending is easy for detractors to scrutinize, despite being stable since the 1980s, and why context is critical to understand what hospital spending measures include. READ MORE

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified in additional Senate hearings April 22 on the fiscal year 2027 HHS budget proposal,…
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. April 21 testified in two hearings on the proposed fiscal year 2027 HHS budget, which requests $…
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The Senate last night failed a fifth time to adopt the House-passed continuing resolution to fund the federal government, continuing the government shutdown.…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimated national health spending grew 8.2% in 2024 and expects a 7.1% increase in 2025, the agency reported…
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health for a hearing to…
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The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee today released its text for the budget reconciliation bill. The text includes one health care…