NEW KFF/Washington Post survey finds most parents follow vaccine guidance and express confidence in vaccines. But partisan divisions appear to be widening, and younger parents express more doubts than older parents, raising questions about the future of childhood vaccine uptake in the US.

Not from KFF, but an Axios/Ipsos poll from March 2025 found 17% of adults reported getting a COVID booster in the last 3 months, which is about the same share who said the same in Feb 2024. To me this suggests interest in boosters still exists.

When it comes to trust in vaccine information, we find reversal of a trend of declining trust among Republicans that started during COVID. Dems remain more likely than Reps to trust CDC and FDA for information, but trust has inched up among Rs and dropped by double digits among Ds since 2023.

New KFF Tracking Poll looks at opinion on cuts to federal health agencies & programs. Partisans mostly disagree, of course, but majorities of both Ds and Rs oppose major cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, mental health, and infectious disease funding, and VA staff cuts

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But misperceptions about Medicaid persist. Most people don't know that most working-age people Medicaid recipients have jobs, and most are unaware that Medicaid is the primary payer of nursing home and LTC services.

New from KFF: Medicaid is popular. Most people have some level of personal connection to the program, and few want to see federal spending on Medicaid reduced, including among Republicans and Trump voters.

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Our latest poll also finds that false beliefs about a proven link between MMR vaccines and autism continue to persist. Parents who lean towards believing this falsehood are much more likely than those who don't to report skipping or delaying vaccines for their children.

When it comes to the MMR vaccine, large majorities of the public and parents continue to believe that the benefits outweigh the risks, but an increasing share of parents see the risks as outweighing the benefits.

That was a simplified question as part of a list of potential health care priorities for the new administration. When we ask the question with a broader range of response options, more people want the ACA to be expanded or kept as is rather than repealed www.kff.org/affordable-c...

About a third of adults with health care debt say their credit scores were negatively affected by such debt. The Biden administration's new rules could provide some relief for these people, if the incoming administration doesn't reverse them. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Mental health care can be difficult to access in the U.S. Among those who describe their mental health as fair or poor, about half report receiving services in the past 3 years. The shares are lower for people without health insurance, those born outside the U.S., Black and Hispanic adults.

As this chart shows, about 4 in 10 voters covered by Medicaid identify as Republican, as do almost half of those who buy their own insurance (most of whom are getting subsidies through the ACA).