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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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This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on appropriations, impoundments, new strategic guidance from AHRQ, and more.
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AHRQ released a new strategy document that signals a potential pivot point for U.S. health services research (HSR). While the document emphasizes methodological rigor, it raises serious questions about the future of three pillars of HSR: patient-centered care, health disparities research, and dissemination & implementation (D&I) science. Each of these areas is essential to making evidence matter in the real world.
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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
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Researchers and advocates often overlook the fundamental issue of bodily autonomy in post-Dobbs abortion discourse.
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In this issue of AcademyHealth’s Situation Report, we highlight testimony raising questions about scientific integrity at the CDC, the potential impacts of a government shutdown on ACA subsidies and research funding, and the launch of a $50B CMS initiative to transform rural health care.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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