August 2, 2026
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Los republicanos insisten en que los recortes del presidente Donald Trump a Medicaid buscaban reducir el fraude y poner a
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New moms all over social media are breaking down their incredibly expensive hospital bills after giving birth. So why is
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FDA leaders under President Donald Trump are moving to abandon a decades-old policy of asking outside experts to review drug
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Los pacientes comienzan a hacer fila antes del amanecer en Operación Salud Fronteriza, una clínica de salud gratuita que se
Read More Republicans insist that President Donald Trump’s cuts to Medicaid were aimed at reducing fraud and getting more of its adult
Read More In 2024, the Texas State Guard participated in Operation Border Health, a five-day free health clinic in Texas. The annual
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Lauren Sausser When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn’t pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to
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It was March 2020, and Robert Gordon was about to kick some 80,000 people off health insurance. As the Michigan
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SACRAMENTO, California — La administración Trump ha extendido su política de mano dura en inmigración a la red de atención
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The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
Read More Angela Hart and Devi Shastri, The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Trump administration is taking its immigration crackdown to
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Jamie Ducharme After losing 50 pounds on the injectable weight loss medication Zepbound, Kyra Wensley received a surprising letter from
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Amy Frank dijo que pasó 17 horas al teléfono durante casi tres semanas, rebotando entre su aseguradora y el sistema
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Amy Frank said it took 17 hours on the phone over nearly three weeks, bouncing between her insurer and her
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Preocupados por la inflación, los estadounidenses han estado atentos a precios de productos cotidianos como los huevos y la gasolina.
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John Daley, Colorado Public Radio En el Valle de San Luis, al sur de Colorado, las nubes se elevan sobre
Read More Wary of inflation, Americans have been watching the prices of everyday items such as eggs and gasoline. A less-noticed expense
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Jonnell Wieder earned too much money at her job to keep her Medicaid coverage when the covid-19 public health emergency
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
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Jackie Fortiér and Oona Zenda Illustrations by Oona Zenda “My son was diagnosed with congenital CMV, a virus that can
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Maryland is the first state to tap into an old fund connected to the Affordable Care Act to help solve
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As they move into adulthood, many young Americans face a unique and daunting challenge: finding their own health insurance by
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Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to
Read More In southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley, clouds billow above the towering mountains of the Sangre de Cristo range. A chorus
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Dan Weissmann When a New York couple purchased a health insurance plan from a telemarketer, they thought it covered everything
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Se suponía que iba a ser más fácil. Cuando la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) se
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People thinking about starting a business or retiring early — before they’re old enough for Medicare — may want to
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Elisabeth Rosenthal and Hannah Norman, KFF Health News Amid the challenges of adulthood, one rite of passage is unique to
Read More It was supposed to be easier than this. When the Affordable Care Act was passed in March 2010, the goal
Read More Despite recent efforts to bolster California’s behavioral health workforce, the state is operating with only about two-thirds of the psychiatrists
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Francoise Cham of Miami has health insurance coverage for herself and her daughter through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, also
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Michelle Andrews Si quieres vacunarte contra covid-19 este otoño, ¿lo cubrirá el seguro médico de tu empleador? No hay una
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Cuando el presidente Donald Trump firmó una ley que agrega requisitos laborales para algunos beneficiarios de Medicaid, es posible que
Read More When President Donald Trump signed a law adding work requirements for some Medicaid recipients, he may have undercut lawmakers in
Read More If you want a covid-19 shot this fall, will your employer’s health insurance plan pay for it? There’s no clear
Read More The Host In his ongoing effort to reshape health policy, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Durante dos décadas, la pediatra Lanre Falusi, de Washington D.C., ha asesorado a los padres sobre el calendario de vacunas
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If you want to create a perfect storm at Covered California and other Affordable Care Act marketplaces, all you have
Read More Jackie Fortiér For two decades, Washington, D.C., pediatrician Lanre Falusi has counseled parents about vaccine safety, side effects, and timing.
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President Donald Trump rode to reelection last fall on voter concerns about prices. But as his administration pares back federal
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
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President Donald Trump signed legislation that mandates some Medicaid recipients prove they’re working, volunteering, or completing other qualifying activities at
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MISSOULA, Mont. — As congressional Republicans finalized Medicaid work requirements in President Donald Trump’s budget bill, one man who relies
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When Lawrence and Penny Higgins of Fairfield, Maine, first learned in 2020 that high levels of toxic chemicals called PFAS
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Loreben Tuquero, PolitiFact “Almost 5 million able-bodied Medicaid recipients ‘simply choose not to work’ and ‘spend six hours a day
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La terapia de rehabilitación puede ser una bendición después de una hospitalización por un derrame cerebral, una caída, un accidente,
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Every time Ashton Alexander sees an ad for Georgia Pathways to Coverage, it feels like a “kick in the face.”
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
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Elisabeth Rosenthal Last year in Massachusetts, after finding lumps in her breast, Jessica Chen went to Lowell General Hospital-Saints Campus,
Read More Jordan Rau, KFF Health News Federal health officials do not inform consumers about severe safety violations in hospitals that specialize
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Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Most of the 24 million people in Affordable Care Act health plans face a potential
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Jordan Rau, KFF Health News and Irena Hwang, The New York Times Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major
Read More Rehabilitation therapy can be a godsend after hospitalization for a stroke, a fall, an accident, a joint replacement, a severe
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Doctors, hospitals, and health insurers for weeks issued dire warnings to Republican lawmakers that millions of people would lose health
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
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As a postpartum doula, Dawn Oliver does her best work in the middle of the night. During a typical shift,
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Nicole Silva’s 4-year-old daughter was headed to a relative’s house near the southern Colorado town of La Jara when a
Read More Dan Weissmann In response to the high price of prescription drugs, “An Arm and a Leg” asked listeners to share
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Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News and Julie Appleby, KFF Health News and Renuka Rayasam and Bernard J. Wolfson The tax
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Four years before Kimberly Gallagher enrolled in Medicaid herself, the public health insurance program’s rules prompted her to make an
Read More The Host Early Thursday afternoon, the House approved a budget reconciliation bill that not only would make permanent many of
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Shorter enrollment periods. More paperwork. Higher premiums. The sweeping tax and spending bill pushed by President Donald Trump includes provisions
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Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending,
Read More El “One Big Beautiful Bill” del presidente Donald Trump recorta el gasto federal en los mercados de Medicaid y la
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President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful” budget reconciliation bill would make some of the most sweeping changes in health policy
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Durante meses, María, de 55 años, cuidadora de adultos mayores en el condado de Orange, se ha esforzado por no
Read More For months, Maria, 55, a caregiver to older adults in California’s Orange County, has been trying not to smile. If
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CLARKESVILLE, Ga. — Last September, Alton Fry went to the doctor concerned he had high blood pressure. The trip would
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Arielle Zionts “A lot of times, health care comes with a job.” Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), in an interview with
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Stephanie Ivory counts on Medicaid to get treated for gastrointestinal conditions and a bulging disc that makes standing or sitting
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
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California lawmakers are poised to delay the state’s much-ballyhooed new law mandating in vitro fertilization insurance coverage for millions, set
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Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’
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GREENVILLE, Miss. — Cedric Sturdevant woke up with “a bit of depression” but made it to church, as he does
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MIAMI, Florida. — Josefina Muralles trabaja a tiempo parcial de noche como recepcionista en un condominio de Miami Beach. Así,
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Bernard J. Wolfson Republican efforts to restrict taxes on hospitals, health plans, and other providers that states use to help
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
Read More While the Senate budget bill released this week proposes deep funding cuts and work requirements for Medicaid — proposals likely
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When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare
Read More MIAMI — Josefina Muralles works a part-time overnight shift as a receptionist at a Miami Beach condominium so that during
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Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Nearly two-thirds of adults oppose President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” approved in May
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BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts,
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Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump’s budget plan would rapidly
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
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Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact “One out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid [payments] is improper.” Russell Vought stated on June
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Major changes could be in store for the more than 24 million people with health coverage under the Affordable Care
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
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Millions would lose Medicaid coverage. Millions would be left without health insurance. Signing up for health plans on the Affordable
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — High school senior Joshua Yang understands sacrifice. When he was midway through 10th grade, his mom
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On Christmas Day at the WaTiki indoor water park, Hans Wirt was getting winded from following his son up the
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GLOBE, Ariz. — Like many residents of this copper-mining town in the mountains east of Phoenix, Debbie Cox knows plenty
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Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News and Christine Mai-Duc La emblemática legislación del presupuesto del presidente Donald Trump castigaría a 14
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
Read More A blockbuster lawsuit from the federal Department of Justice alleges that insurers Aetna, Elevance Health (formerly Anthem), and Humana paid
Read More Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News and Christine Mai-Duc President Donald Trump’s signature budget legislation would punish 14 states that offer
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — When Page Campbell’s doctor recommended she try an injectable prescription drug called Wegovy to lose weight before
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Health care has proved a vulnerable target for the firehose of cuts and policy changes President Donald Trump ordered in
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[*] When people call large insurance brokerages seeking free assistance in choosing Medicare Advantage plans, they’re often offered assurances such
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Christine Mai-Duc and Vanessa G. Sánchez SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proposed that California roll back health
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
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It has been nearly eight years since Sen. John McCain’s middle-of-the-night thumbs-down vote torpedoed Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t expect to be reckoning with another health care crisis. In March, as President
Read More SACRAMENTO, California — El gobernador Gavin Newsom no esperaba enfrentarse a otra crisis sanitaria. En marzo, mientras el presidente Donald
Read More Dan Weissmann News has been coming out of Washington, D.C., since the start of the second Donald Trump administration like
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The Trump administration must soon make a decision that will affect millions of Americans’ ability to access and afford mental
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Christine Mai-Duc SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson anticipates that California’s sprawling Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, may
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Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News On the eastern plains of Colorado, in a county of less than 6,000 people, Lincoln
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host
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Stephanie Armour In his March address to Congress, President Donald Trump honored a Texas boy diagnosed with brain cancer. Amid
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CRESTWOOD, Mo. — The prospect of sweeping federal cuts to Medicaid is alarming to some Missourians who remember the last
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El principal organismo no partidista de control gubernamental del país ha confirmado que está examinando los costos de operar el
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Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead
Read More Sam Whitehead and Renuka Rayasam The country’s top nonpartisan government watchdog has confirmed it is examining the costs of running
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Faced with potential federal spending cuts that threaten health coverage and falling childhood vaccination rates, Monica Soni, the chief medical
Read More Republicans have long pushed to force working-age adults enrolled in Medicaid to show they are, in fact, working. Party members
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Carmen Aiken of Chicago made an appointment for an annual physical exam in July 2023, planning to get checked out
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For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health system, whose 52
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For nearly three agonizing years, Mariah Freschi and her husband have been trying to have a second baby. The California
Read More Hospitals have spent years amassing political influence at the federal and state levels. According to the nonprofit OpenSecrets, hospitals and
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Mike Dennison HELENA, Mont. — As Republican legislative leaders in Montana girded for this year’s battle over whether to extend
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low
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They’re the fixers, the ones who step in when Affordable Care Act enrollees have a problem with their coverage, like
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PBS News Weekend’s Ali Rogin spoke with KFF Health News contributor Michelle Andrews about what some people with missing limbs
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For many years, Eric Wunderlin’s health issues made it hard to find stable employment. Struggling to manage depression and diabetes,
Read More Arielle Zionts Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies,
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Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Because of past fraud by rogue brokers, some Affordable Care Act policyholders may get an
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Subrayando la magnitud del problema de la deuda médica en el país, una organización sin fines de lucro con sede
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Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare Advantage companies, and some
Read More Underscoring the massive scale of America’s medical debt problem, a New York-based nonprofit has struck a deal to pay off
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MANSFIELD, La. — When Desoto Regional Health System took out $36 million in loans last year to renovate a rural
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Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the last time major Medicaid cuts slashed her budget. In the late 2000s, during the Great Recession,
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HENRICO, Va. — Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company. Sometimes, as the
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Mari Villar was slammed by a car that jumped the curb, breaking her legs and collapsing a lung. Amy Paulo
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Tim Winard knew he needed to buy health insurance when he left his management job in manufacturing to launch his
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Brett Kelman In the wooded highlands of northern Arkansas, where small towns have few dentists, water officials who serve more
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HELENA, Mont. — Mark Nay’s first client had lost the van she was living in and was struggling with substance
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Rachana Pradhan and Aneri Pattani Illustration by Oona Zenda The National Institutes of Health employee said she knew things would
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PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has
Read More Julie Appleby, KFF Health News “On Feb. 25, I voted yes on a budget resolution that protects Social Security, Medicare,
Read More Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez While Congress considers potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, tribal health leaders are bracing for a
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As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the
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(iStock/Getty Images) Spending cuts, immigration, and Medicaid are at the top of the Washington agenda. That climate provides fertile ground
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The Senate Finance Committee got its chance March 14 to question Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the
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The prospect of deep Medicaid cuts has become a flashpoint in Congress, with leaders of both parties accusing their counterparts
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Christine Mai-Duc California’s Medicaid program has borrowed $3.4 billion from the state’s general fund — and will likely need even
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TUSTIN, California — Cynthia Williams está furiosa con los republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos que están
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Julie Appleby, KFF Health News La administración Trump publicó el lunes 10 de marzo su primer conjunto importante de cambios
Read More Dan Weissmann The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its
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Phillip Reese Kirk Vartan pays more than $2,000 a month for a high-deductible health insurance plan from Blue Shield on
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When congressional Republicans in 2017 pushed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and slash Medicaid, dozens of physician groups, patient
Read More The Trump administration issued its first major set of proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act on Monday that federal
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Jennifer Pahlka is perhaps best known as the founder of Code for America, a widely respected nonprofit that helped formalize
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In Washington’s debate over enacting steep funding cuts to Medicaid, words are a central battleground. Many Republican lawmakers and conservative
Read More Bernard J. Wolfson TUSTIN, Calif. — Cynthia Williams is furious with U.S. House Republicans willing to slash Medicaid, the government-run
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More than three years ago, health insurance giant Centene Corp. settled allegations that it overcharged Medicaid programs in Ohio and
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The Justice Department’s years-long court battle to force UnitedHealth Group to return billions of dollars in alleged Medicare Advantage overpayments
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Chikao Tsubaki had been having a terrible time. In his mid-80s, he had a stroke. Then lymphoma. Then prostate cancer.
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Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead En enero, durante una audiencia en el Congreso en su camino a convertirse en secretario
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It took nearly three years to win presumptive workers’ compensation coverage for breast, cervical, and other cancers that firefighters who
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Sandy West Jagdish Whitten was on a run in July 2023 when a car hit him as he crossed a
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Sue O’Connell HELENA, Mont. — Despite concerns about what Congress and the Trump administration might have planned for Medicaid, Montana’s
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By Sam Whitehead February 24, 2025 Article HTML Sam Whitehead Republicans in Congress have suggested big cuts to Medicaid. But
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Read More Renuka Rayasam Congressional lawmakers are facing tricky arithmetic as they hammer out a budget plan to finance President Donald Trump’s
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of
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Renuka Rayasam Valentino Valdez recibió su certificado de nacimiento, su tarjeta de Seguro Social, una camiseta y pantalones color caqui
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McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — Each month, Michelle Shaw went to a pain clinic to get the shots that made her back
Read More In January, during a congressional hearing on his way to becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services,
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Christine Mai-Duc When Colleen Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a
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Collection agents for the state of Iowa have sent letters seeking millions of dollars from the estates of at least
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President Donald Trump’s return to the White House sent a clear signal about Medicaid to Republicans across the country: Requiring
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Nothing sweeps us off our feet like a health policy valentine. Readers showed their love this season, writing poetic lines
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Valentino Valdez was given his birth certificate, his Social Security card, a T-shirt, and khaki pants when he was released
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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration is reviving efforts to do away with a panel that hears appeals from people who
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SUITLAND, Md. — At a SuperSuds Laundromat just south of Washington, D.C., a steady stream of customers loaded clothes into
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Gloria Sachdev has spent years challenging the health care industry, trying to bring down the high cost of care. It’s
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of
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Julie Appleby, KFF Health News During her annual OB-GYN visit, Callie Anderson asked about getting off the birth control pill.
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Covered California, el mercado de seguros de salud del estado, ha alcanzado un récord de 1,8 millones de inscritos y
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States and the nation’s health industry were thrown into disarray after the Trump administration ordered Monday that the government freeze
Read More Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, has hit a record 1.8 million enrollees and the number could climb higher
Read More The Host Incoming President Donald Trump’s inauguration is Monday, yet the new GOP-led Congress is already rushing to work his
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the nation braces for potential policy shifts under President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” mantra,
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Durante la presidencia de Joe Biden, la inscripción en Medicaid alcanzó un nivel récord y la tasa de personas sin
Read More Under President Joe Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low. Donald
Read More The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of
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Mike Dennison and Sue O’Connell HELENA, Mont. — A last-minute change to a 2019 bill put an end date on
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six years after he entered office vowing to be California’s “health care governor,” Democrat Gavin Newsom has
Read More Angela Hart and Christine Mai-Duc SACRAMENTO, California.— Seis años después de asumir el cargo prometiendo ser el “gobernador de la
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When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options in 2023, he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs.
Read MoreShell vs Chevron trading commodity impact the market Shell and Chevron are two of the world’s largest oil supermajors, with
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Tom Contos is an avid runner. When he started experiencing rectal bleeding in March, he thought exercise could be the
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Julie Appleby, KFF Health News New enrollments under the Affordable Care Act are on pace to trail last year’s record
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A western New York health insurance provider for seniors and the CEO of its medical analytics arm have agreed to
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It seems simple: Require hospitals and insurers to post their negotiated prices for most health care services and — bingo
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It’s open enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act — and there are ongoing challenges. First up, enrollment. New and
Read More Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Las nuevas inscripciones bajo la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) parecen
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Noam N. Levey Among the biggest-grossing films in America in February 2002 were a war drama about American troops in
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