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Health Affairs Highlights from 2025

If anything, 2025 was not boring. As we gear up for 2026, we wanted to highlight some of our favorite pieces of content across our organization for 2025.

National Health Expenditure Projections, 2024–33: Despite Insurance Coverage Declines, Health To Grow As Share Of GDP

Sean P. Keehan et al. (June 2025)

From Laggard To Leader: Why Health Care In The United States Is Failing, And How To Fix It

Donald M. Berwick et al. (January 2025)

What Lies Ahead For Medicaid In Budget Reconciliation?

Sara Rosenbaum and Alison Barkoff (February 2025)

History Repeats? Faced With Medicaid Cuts, States Reduced Support For Older Adults And Disabled People

Jessica Schubel et al. (April 2025)

The Influence Of Private Equity In Health Care

A Health Podyssey: Eric Topol on the Science of Super-Aging and Longevity

Health Affairs This Week: The Big Beautiful Bill: A New Era for Health Policy? w/ Katie Keith

Administration Releases Proposed Medicare International Drug Reference Pricing Models

Kristi Martin and Rachel Sachs

part of our Health Policy At A Crossroads series

Pregnant Women Don’t Belong In Federal Detention Centers

Supriya Jain and Karissa McCright

What Recent CMS Changes To Medicaid State-Directed Payments Mean For The Future Of Medicaid

Mary-Beth Malcarney

part of our Medicaid Financing series

Benchmarking Drug Prices To Inflation Overlooks What Truly Matters: Value

William V. Padula

Proposed Federal Rules Target Health Care For Transgender Youth (Part 1)

Katie Keith

part of our Health Policy At A Crossroads series

Proposed Federal Rules Target Heatlh Care For Transgender Youth (Part 2)

Katie Keith

part of our Health Policy At A Crossroads series

Request For Submissions: Age-Friendly Health Series

Health Affairs is refreshing its series on Age-Friendly Health with a new cycle of papers that will run through June 30, 2028.

The overarching goal of the series is to improve care for older adults by helping to guide the federal, state, and local policy agenda through empirical studies and thoughtful, incisive commentary.

We are grateful to The John A. Hartford Foundation for its support for our ongoing coverage of these topics since 2015.