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Episode 407

July 24, 2025

Medicaid may have monopolized Washington’s attention lately, but big changes are coming to the Affordable Care Act as well. Meanwhile, Americans are learning more about what’s in Trump’s big budget law, and polls suggest many don’t like what they see. Julie Appleby of KFF Health News, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews historian Jonathan Oberlander to mark Medicare’s 60th anniversary.

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Tribal Health Officials Work To Fill Vaccination Gaps as Measles Outbreak Spreads

Native American tribes and health organizations are hosting clinics and calling patients to counteract low measles vaccination rates and limited access to health care as the disease spreads across the country.

By Arielle Zionts

July 24, 2025

Watch: What Are Medicaid Work Requirements?

KFF Health News' Renuka Rayasam breaks down what you need to know about Medicaid work requirements.

By Renuka Rayasam

July 24, 2025

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States Pass Privacy Laws To Protect Brain Data Collected by Devices

Colorado, California, and Montana have passed neural data privacy laws meant to prevent the exploitation of brain information collected by consumer products.

By Kate Ruder

July 23, 2025

An illustration of an unidentifiable male figure, wearing a red tie and dark grey suit, holding a golden scale. On the left scale, which is lighter and raised high, are medical items. On the right side is a restaurant worker, presumably on Medicaid.

Republicans Call Medicaid Rife With Fraudsters. This Man Sees No Choice but To Break the Rules.

Congressional Republicans successfully pushed to add hurdles to qualify for Medicaid by saying they would eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse. This is the story of a Montana man who explains why he said he is breaking the rules to keep his health insurance and his job.

By Katheryn Houghton

July 23, 2025

A husband and wife stand outside their home, surrounded by lush green plants and tall purple flowers.

Amid PFAS Fallout, a Maine Doctor Navigates Medical Risks With Her Patients

A doctor doing environmental health research in rural Maine is working to establish the best practices to treat patients exposed to “forever chemicals,” potentially leading the way for practitioners across the nation.

By Marina Schauffler

July 22, 2025

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Cuts to Food Benefits Stand in the Way of RFK Jr.’s Goals for a Healthier National Diet

The Trump administration has said improving American nutrition is a priority, but deep cuts to federal food assistance could lead people to forgo healthy food in favor of cheaper alternatives.

By Renuka Rayasam

July 22, 2025

KFF Health News & PolitiFact HealthCheck

Are 5 Million Nondisabled Medicaid Recipients Watching TV All Day? That’s Unsupported

CNN pundit Scott Jennings said almost 5 million nondisabled Medicaid recipients "simply choose not to work" and "spend six hours a day socializing and watching television." But a recent analysis found only about 300,000 cited a lack of interest in working as the reason they were unemployed.

By Loreben Tuquero, PolitiFact

July 22, 2025

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Louisiana Upholds Its HIV Exposure Law as Other States Change or Repeal Theirs

State lawmakers unsuccessfully attempted to extend the law this year to cover the intentional exposure of other sexually transmitted infections.

By Halle Parker, Verite News

July 21, 2025

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Rural Health Payout

$50B Rural Health ‘Slush Fund’ Faces Questions, Skepticism

Lawmakers added a $50 billion program for rural health to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package with promises it would help plug the hole left by Medicaid cuts. Rural hospital and clinic leaders worry the infusion won’t reach the right places.

By Sarah Jane Tribble

July 21, 2025

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Georgia Shows Rough Road Ahead for States as Medicaid Work Requirements Loom

President Donald Trump signed legislation that requires many Medicaid recipients to prove they’re working to qualify for health care coverage, allocating $200 million for states that expanded Medicaid to prepare systems to verify people’s eligibility. Georgia’s program, which has been expensive and difficult to administer, has had limited enrollment.

By Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead

July 21, 2025

KFF Health News On Air

Journalists Dig Into Megabill’s Slashing of Medicaid. Plus, How To Avoid Tick Bites.

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

July 19, 2025

The Week in Brief

Medical Rehab Hospital Inspections Go Unpublicized by Federal Officials

Get our weekly newsletter, The Week in Brief, featuring a roundup of our original coverage, Fridays at 2 p.m. ET.

By Jordan Rau

July 18, 2025

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Perspective

Surprise Medical Bills Were Supposed To Be a Thing of the Past. Surprise — They’re Not.

The No Surprises Act, which was signed in 2020 and took effect in 2022, was heralded as a landmark piece of legislation that would protect people who had health insurance from receiving surprise medical bills. And yet bills that take patients by surprise keep coming.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal

July 18, 2025

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Insurers and Customers Brace for Double Whammy to Obamacare Premiums

Consumers face both rising premiums and falling subsidies next year in Obamacare plans, with insurers seeking increases to cover not only rising costs but also some policy changes advanced by President Donald Trump and the GOP.

By Julie Appleby

July 18, 2025

What the Health? From KFF Health News

The Senate Saves PEPFAR Funding — For Now

Episode 406

July 17, 2025

The Senate narrowly approved the Trump administration’s request to claw back about $9 billion for foreign aid and public broadcasting but refused to cut funding for the international AIDS/HIV program PEPFAR. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court ruled that West Virginia can ban the abortion pill mifepristone, which could allow states to block other FDA-approved drugs. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.

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The New Old Age

Maybe It’s Not Just Aging. Maybe It’s Anemia.

Significant numbers of older people have the condition. Many find relief with an effective treatment that is being more widely prescribed.

By Paula Span

July 17, 2025

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Los Angeles Weighs a Disaster Registry. Disability Advocates Warn Against False Assurances.

Amid increasingly frequent natural disasters, several states have turned to registries to prioritize help for vulnerable residents. But while some politicians see these registries as a potential solution to a public health problem, many disability advocates say they endanger residents with mobility problems by giving a false sense of security.

By Miranda Green

July 17, 2025

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A Million Veterans Gave DNA To Aid Health Research. Scientists Worry the Data Will Be Wasted.

Retired service members donated genetic material to help answer health questions for not only others in the military but all Americans, creating one of the largest repositories of health data in the world. The Trump administration is dragging its heels on agreements to analyze it with supercomputers.

By Darius Tahir

July 16, 2025

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Lost in Translation: Interpreter Cutbacks Could Put Patient Lives on the Line

Recent federal reductions in funding for language assistance and President Donald Trump’s executive order designating English as the official language of the United States have some health advocates worried that millions of people with limited English proficiency will be left without adequate support and more likely to experience medical errors.

By Vanessa G. Sánchez

July 16, 2025

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