Workplace Mental Health at Risk as Key Federal Agency Faces Cuts
Efforts to decrease alarmingly high rates of suicide among construction workers and prevent burnout in health care workers are in jeopardy after the firing of hundreds of employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
In a Nation Growing Hostile Toward Drugs and Homelessness, Los Angeles Tries Leniency
A new care center for homeless people on Los Angeles’ infamous Skid Row embraces the principle of harm reduction, a more lenient approach to drug use and addiction. County officials say criminalization only worsens homelessness.
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Republican Megabill Will Mean Higher Health Costs for Many Americans
Spending cuts hitting medical providers, Medicaid and Affordable Care Act enrollees, and lawfully present immigrants are just some of the biggest changes the GOP has in store for health care — with ramifications that could touch all Americans.
States Brace for Reversal of Obamacare Coverage Gains Under Trump’s Budget Bill
States that run their own health insurance marketplaces fear an end to automatic Obamacare reenrollment under the tax and spending megabill would have an outsize effect on their policyholders.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump’s Bill Reaches the Finish Line
To Keep Medicaid, Mom Caring for Disabled Adult Son Faces Prospect of Proving She Works
GOP Governors Mum as Congress Moves To Slash Medicaid Spending for Their States
To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health Care
In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured
Journalists Assess Health Impacts of Trump’s Megabill, Who Will Feel Them, and When
‘MAHA Report’ Calls for Fighting Chronic Disease, but Trump and Kennedy Have Yanked Funding
As Mosquito Season Peaks, Officials Brace for New Normal of Dengue Cases
HHS Eliminates CDC Staff Who Made Sure Birth Control Is Safe for Women at Risk
Investigation: Deadly Denials
As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options
Health insurers issue millions of prior authorization denials every year, leaving many patients stuck in a convoluted appeals process, with little hope of meaningful policy change ahead. For doctors, these denials are frustrating and time-consuming. For patients, they can be devastating.
