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Shannon Schumacher, PhD
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Senior Survey Analyst @KFF.org polling the public about experiences in health care
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Shannon Schumacher, PhD @shannonschumacher.bsky.social · Jan 9
Hi! I’m a Senior Survey Analyst @kff.org. We conduct polls on the public’s attitudes, knowledge, and experiences with the health care system. My areas of expertise include immigrant health, health care in politics, cross-cultural and multilingual research, and hard-to-reach populations.
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drishp.bsky.social
CMS just issued a notice that it will start sharing personal data of Medicaid enrollees with ICE for immigration enforcement, including data on immigration status, location, and phone numbers. @kff.org Quick Take discusses the impact this could have on immigrant families
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CMS Plans to Share Data with ICE Could Exacerbate Immigrant Families’ Fears About Accessing Health Coverage and Care
This policy change will likely exacerbate fears among immigrant families about health officials and providers sharing patient information with ICE, increasing their reluctance to access health coverag...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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More stories out today from @nytimes.com on the KFF/NYT Survey of Immigrants:

How Noncitizens, Anxious Under Trump, Are Altering Their Lives www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Most Immigrants Support Border Enforcement, but Not Mass Deportations, Poll Finds
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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⚡ KFF’s @sartiga.bsky.social explains that the proposed change to the public charge rule would likely lead to further declines in use of health care and programs among immigrant families. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/445QwKs
KFF graphic featuring a quote from Samantha Artiga, KFF vice president and director of the Racial Equity and Health Policy Program. It says, “These changes would significantly increase immigration officers’ discretion in making public charge decisions and could allow them to consider factors that had been excluded under the 2022 rule, including use of health, nutrition, and housing programs such as Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
shannonschumacher.bsky.social
Really excited to share our latest survey of immigrants work @kff.org. We're able to see how immigrants are faring now amid increased immigration enforcement compared to 2023. Check out our KFF reports below and stories from @nytimes.com
lizhamel.bsky.social Liz Hamel @lizhamel.bsky.social · 8d
Our brand new survey of immigrants in partnership with @nytimes.com explores immigrants views and experiences under the second Trump administration. It finds increased fear, health and economic challenges amid immigration enforcement, but a remarkable resilience as well

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KFF/New York Times 2025 Survey of Immigrants | KFF
KFF/New York Times 2025 Survey of Immigrants The 2025 Survey of Immigrants, a partnership between KFF and The New York Times, takes an in-depth look at the experiences of immigrants during the first y...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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⚡ KFF’s @ashleykirzinger.bsky.social breaks down KFF polling showing broad public support for extending the enhanced ACA premium tax credits — and what’s likely driving that rare agreement across party lines. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/4n3Gjox
KFF graphic featuring a quote from Ashley Kirzinger, KFF’s Director of Survey Methodology; Associate Director for Public Opinion and Survey Research. It says, “The debate over these enhanced tax credits can be seen as a proxy for the broader public’s concerns about health care affordability which may be why the public is largely in favor of extending these subsidies – even as overall views of the ACA are still very polarized.”
October 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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drishp.bsky.social
There have been a number of congressional and administrative actions undertaken by the Trump administration that are going to impact health coverage and care for immigrant families across America. New piece by @kff.org discusses all the changes in one place

www.kff.org/immigrant-he...
October 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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KFF's latest finds that many adults are uncertain about whether Tylenol use during pregnancy can cause autism in children. But partisanship plays a big role, with most Republicans saying it's probably or definitely true www.kff.org/public-opini...
KFF chart showing the share of adults, parents and partisans who say it is definitely true, probably true, probably false, or definitely false that taking Tylenol during pregnancy increases the risk of children developing autism.
October 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
shannonschumacher.bsky.social
NEW from @kff.org: Just over half (55%) of adults say they use social media to find health info + advice, including larger shares of younger, Black, and Hispanic adults. But across all social media platforms, a majority of users say they don’t trust the health info they see.
Bar chart showing trust in health information and advice across social media platforms
August 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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kff.org
⚡KFF’s Ashley Kirzinger examines how halting mRNA research could deepen the public’s existing distrust and uncertainty about vaccine safety – with potential consequences for convincing the public to take new vaccines in the future. on.kff.org/3Ud1YyJ #QuickTake
Graphic from KFF that reads: "As the debate over mRNA technology continues, public uncertainty about its safety is likely to persist and may even deepen the partisan divide... as well as hinder any efforts to develop new vaccines in response to future pandemics, not to mention convince the public to take them." By Ashley Kirzinger of KFF
August 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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kff.org
When asked about the impact of the changes that Secretary Kennedy is making to vaccine policy, 1 in 5 (20%) adults nationally say they are making people safer, while about a third (36%) say they are making people less safe.

More from our poll: on.kff.org/4oh9PsB
KFF bar chart titled “Partisans, Including Among Parents, Vary in How They Describe the Impact of HHS’ Changes to Vaccine Policy; Six in Ten Democrats Say Changes Have Made People Less Safe.” The chart showing the percent of adults by party, and among parents, who think the changes to vaccine policy will make people safer or less safe, will not make a difference, or don’t know.
August 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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kff.org
Many parents of children under age 18 are confused and uncertain about whether COVID-19 vaccines are recommended for healthy children this year.

Our poll finds about half of parents (48%) don’t know if federal agencies recommend the shot or not. on.kff.org/4oh9PsB
KFF chart titled “Half of Parents Across Partisanship Are Unsure Whether Federal Health Agencies Are Recommending COVID-19 Vaccines for Healthy Children This Fall.” The chart shows the percent among parents by party identification knowing whether federal health agencies are recommending the COVID-19 vaccine this fall for healthy children.
August 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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⚡ KFF’s Lunna Lopes explores how medical debt affects consumers, an issue back in the news after a recent court decision blocked a federal rule that would have stopped medical debt from being included in people’s credit reports. #QuickTake on.kff.org/4lN5zzy
KFF graphic featuring quote from Lunna Lopes, KFF Senior Survey Manager, Public Opinion & Survey Research. It says, “The impact of medical debt on credit scores often has a cascading effect… Adults with health care debt from KFF’s Health Care Debt Survey cited a range of negative outcomes from trouble qualifying for loans to homelessness.”
July 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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drishp.bsky.social
Against a backdrop of restrictive immigration policies at the federal level, several states in '25 have taken actions to also restrict immigrants' access to health and other social services while others have worked to expand access and protections.

More from @kff.org : www.kff.org/policy-watch...
Recent State Actions Impacting Immigrants’ Access to State-Funded Health Coverage and Other Public Programs | KFF
This policy watch summarizes recent proposed actions by states related to state-funded health coverage for immigrants and trends in other legislation enacted during the 2025 session that have implicat...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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drishp.bsky.social
News reports suggest that the Trump administration has shared confidential data of Medicaid enrollees such as SSNs and race/ethnicity information with ICE for immigration enforcement despite federal and state laws prohibiting this type of data sharing. More from @kff.org www.kff.org/policy-watch...
What Privacy and Protection Standards are in Place for Medicaid Enrollees’ Personal Data?  | KFF
This policy watch discusses the data privacy protections in Medicaid and the implications of breaches or violations of those protections.
www.kff.org
July 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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kff.org
On this week’s @lastweektonight.com, John Oliver cited KFF analyses in his examination of how the “One Big Beautiful Bill” could impact health care.

🔗 The House-passed bill’s potential impact on the uninsured: on.kff.org/4jIcF6E
June 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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In light of today's Supreme Court ruling, re-upping this finding from @kff.org's Survey of Immigrants from March/April. Most immigrants disapprove of the Trump admin's efforts to end birthright citizenship, but Republican immigrants are split: 52% say they approve, 48% say they disapprove.
Bar chart showing immigrants' approval/disapproval of Trump admin's efforts to end birthright citizenship by total immigrants, party ID, and immigration status.
June 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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larrylevitt.bsky.social
The House-passed reconciliation bill causes an estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants to lose health coverage. That’s not because the federal government pays for Medicaid for them. It’s because the bill penalizes states using their own money to cover immigrants.
May 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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julierovner.bsky.social
now updated! My amazing colleagues on the analysis side of KFF with everything you need to know about the health provisions of the House-passed budget reconciliation bill: www.kff.org/tracking-the...
Tracking the Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill | KFF
KFF is tracking the Medicaid provisions in the 2025 federal budget bill, including new Medicaid work and verification requirements and a reduction in the expansion match rate for states that use their...
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May 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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sartiga.bsky.social
The final bill passed by the House limited the penalty to states covering immigrants who are not a “qualified alien” or lawfully residing “child or pregnant woman” covered under the Medicaid option.
May 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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sartiga.bsky.social
A small language change in the version of the reconciliation bill that is being considered today made a big change in what's at stake for health coverage of lawfully residing children and pregnant people www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
Proposed Medicaid Federal Match Penalty for States that Have Expanded Coverage for Immigrants: State-by-State Estimates | KFF
This analysis examines the potential impacts of a provision in the House reconciliation bill that proposes reducing the federal matching rate for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion popul...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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larrylevitt.bsky.social
The House reconciliation bill would penalize states to the tune of $92 billion if they use their own funds to provide health care to undocumented immigrants.
www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
May 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
shannonschumacher.bsky.social
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments for the Trump administration’s effort to end birthright citizenship today. @kff.org's latest Survey of Immigrants finds that few (21%) immigrants overall support this, but about half (52%) of Republican immigrants say they do.
May 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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kffhealthnews.org
Budget pressures are forcing @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to consider slashing California’s Medicaid program that covers a whopping third of residents, who have low incomes or are disabled.
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After Promising Universal Health Care, California Governor Must Reconsider Immigrant Coverage - KFF Health News
Gov. Gavin Newsom was elected to office in 2019 on a promise of universal health care. He dramatically expanded coverage, but after six years in office, the Democrat is forced to contemplate deep cuts...
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May 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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sartiga.bsky.social
My new @kff.org quick take discusses the House's proposed penalty to reduce Medicaid financing for states covering undocumented immigrants with their own funds and identifies which states would be affected:
www.kff.org/quick-take/w...
Which States Would Be Affected by a House Proposal to Cut Federal Medicaid Funding for States That Cover Undocumented Immigrants?
KFF data show that as of April 2025, 14 states plus DC use state-only dollars to provide health coverage to children regardless of immigration status, including 7 states that also do so for at least s...
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May 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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kff.org
#MedicaidWatch brings together our policy research, public opinion data, and @kffhealthnews.org reporting about the Medicaid financing debate and related issues.

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Medicaid Watch | KFF
KFF policy research, polling, and news about the Medicaid financing debate.
on.kff.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM