A New Car vs. Health Insurance? Average Family Job-Based Coverage Hits $27K
KFF data shows that 2025 marked the first time in two decades that the annual cost of covering a family of four rose by 6% or more for three consecutive years.
Despite the Hoopla, Vaccines Should Be in Reach This Cough-and-Cold Season
Recommendations surrounding covid vaccinations and other such shots have been confusing. Ultimately, though, little has changed. Here’s what you need to know.
‘Cancer Doesn’t Care’: Citizen Lobbyists Unite To Push Past Washington’s Ugly Politics
Despite a poisonous political climate, hundreds of volunteer advocates put partisan differences aside and pressed Congress to help people with cancer.
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Private Medicare, Medicaid Plans Exaggerate In-Network Mental Health Options, Watchdogs Say
A federal probe of Medicare and Medicaid plans run by private insurance companies found that the plan operators often overstated how many mental health providers were available in their networks. In some cases, investigators found providers had never had contracts with plans they were listed on.
States Jostle Over $50B Rural Health Fund as Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Trigger Scramble
After Chiding Democrats on Transgender Politics, Newsom Vetoes a Key Health Measure
An Age-Old Fear Grows More Common: ‘I’m Going To Die Alone’
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Schrödinger’s Government Shutdown
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy’s HHS
RFK Jr. Misses Mark in Touting Rural Health Transformation Fund as Historic Infusion of Cash
In Mississippi, Medicaid Coverage of Weight Loss Drugs Fails To Catch On
California’s Health Insurance Marketplace Braces for Chaos as Shutdown Persists
Investigation: The Body Shops
Doctors With Troubled Pasts Are Performing Cosmetic Surgeries Tied to Crippling Pain and Injury
Some injured patients say they wish they had tried harder to check the backgrounds of doctors and clinics they trusted, but those records are hard to find.
