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A pile of pins that say "Medicaid" and are decorated with an American flag pattern.

Los republicanos están considerando recortes a Medicaid. De nuevo, ¿qué es Medicaid?

By Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead February 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Más de 79 millones de personas reciben servicios de Medicaid o del relacionado Programa de Seguro de Salud Infantil (CHIP). Esto representa aproximadamente el 20% de la población total de Estados Unidos.

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Anti-Abortion Groups Shrug Off Election Losses, Look to Courts, Statehouses for Path Forward

By Rachana Pradhan November 22, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Anti-abortion groups have lost seven consecutive elections on state ballot measures about abortion. They say they’re unfazed and plan to keep focusing on lawmakers and courts to notch wins.

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

By Halle Parker, Verite News July 21, 2025 KFF Health News Original

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

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Smaller Employers Weigh a Big-Company Fix for Scarce Primary Care: Their Own Clinics

By Phil Galewitz October 27, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Company health clinics are most common at large workplaces, but some small employers say they see advantages, too: healthier workers, lower costs, and better access to primary care.

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Immigration Crackdowns Disrupt the Caregiving Industry. Families Pay the Price.

By Vanessa G. Sánchez and Daniel Chang April 4, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Families, nursing facilities, and home health agencies rely on foreign-born workers to fill health care jobs that are demanding and do not attract enough American citizens. The Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies threaten to cut a key source of labor for the industry, which was already predicting a surge in demand.

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Para las farmacéuticas, la pelea entre Trump y Harris es entre dos enemigos de la industria

By Stephanie Armour August 26, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Legisladores de ambos partidos atacan cada vez más a la industria, por los precios de los medicamentos que la mayoría de los estadounidenses consideran irrazonables.

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Scientists Fear What’s Next for Public Health if RFK Jr. Is Allowed To ‘Go Wild’

By Arthur Allen Updated November 14, 2024 Originally Published November 14, 2024 KFF Health News Original

As federal health scientists await a potential takeover by RFK Jr. and other medical skeptics in the second Trump administration, some are preparing résumés or retirement papers.

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RFK Jr. Adds 5 ACIP Panelists, Including Skeptics Of Vaccines, Covid Protocol

September 16, 2025 Morning Briefing

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices this week will meet and vote on chickenpox, covid-19, and hepatitis B shots. Former CDC officials expect the panel will vote against recommending hep B shots for newborns. Plus, ousted CDC Director Susan Monarez preps for a Senate hearing.

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For Young People on Medicare, a Hysterectomy Sometimes Is More Affordable Than Birth Control

By Gina Jiménez March 7, 2023 KFF Health News Original

While Medicare was designed as health insurance for those 65 and older, it also covers people with disabilities who are young enough to still get pregnant. Yet they often struggle to get their birth control covered and end up with large medical bills — or instead opt for hysterectomies or tubal ligations, which Medicare sometimes will cover.

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West Virginia City Once Battered by Opioid Overdoses Confronts ‘Fourth Wave’

By Taylor Sisk March 13, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Years of struggle prepared residents in Cabell County, West Virginia, to confront the latest wave of the opioid epidemic as mixtures of fentanyl and other drugs claim lives nationwide.

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Journalists Discuss Medicaid Rules, Opioid Settlement Funds, and the Public Health Workforce

December 3, 2022 KFF Health News Original

KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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Readers Rail at Social Security Overpayments and Insurers’ Prior Authorizations

September 28, 2023 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

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A Needle Exchange Project Modeled on Urban Efforts Aims to Save Lives in Rural Nevada

By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez August 24, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Five years after HIV tore through a rural Indiana town as a result of widespread drug use, a syringe and needle exchange program was set up in rural Nevada to prevent a similar event.

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The former ambulance entrance at the Keokuk Area Hospital has a large sign that says "closed" taped to the inside of the automatic doors.

Federal Program to Save Rural Hospitals Feels ‘Growing Pains’

By Sarah Jane Tribble and Tony Leys January 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Fewer than two dozen rural hospitals were converted into Rural Emergency Hospitals in the program’s first year. Now, advocates and lawmakers say tweaks to the law are necessary to lure more takers and keep health care in rural communities.

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A photo shows an advertisement for Plan B inside of a pharmacy. Text on the sign reads, "Here for you when you need us. Plan B One-Step."

Misinformation Clouds America’s Most Popular Emergency Contraception

By Sarah Varney June 7, 2022 KFF Health News Original

At a moment when half of U.S. states stand poised to outlaw or sharply curtail abortion services, the nation’s most popular emergency contraception brand rests in the unlikely stewardship of two private equity firms.

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NYC Makes Clear Its Intent to Lead on Abortion Access

By Michelle Andrews February 28, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Mayor Eric Adams’ announcement this year to provide abortion pills free of charge at four of New York’s sexual health clinics is the city’s latest move on abortion access. Other jurisdictions are also taking steps.

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Harris, alguna vez la voz de Biden sobre el aborto, tendría un enfoque abierto en temas de salud

By Stephanie Armour and Julie Appleby and Julie Rovner July 21, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Mientras los demócratas reconstruyen su candidatura presidencial a pocos meses de las elecciones, se esperaría que, de ser la nueva nominada, Harris adoptase una postura agresiva en apoyo al acceso al aborto y en otros temas controversiales de salud.

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Vance-Walz Debate Highlighted Clear Health Policy Differences

By KFF Health News and PolitiFact staffs October 2, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The vice presidential debate showcased the very different views of Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ VP pick, on health policies past and present.

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States Reconsider Religious Exemptions for Vaccinations in Child Care

By Matt Volz November 3, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Providers and health care advocates warn a proposed rule change in Montana would jeopardize immunity levels in child care centers and communities. Efforts to change vaccination exemption rules are underway in other states, too.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': The Supreme Court and the Abortion Pill

March 28, 2024 Podcast

The Supreme Court this week heard its first abortion case since overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, about an appeals court ruling that would dramatically restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone. But while it seems likely that this case could be dismissed on a technicality, abortion opponents have more challenges in the pipeline. Meanwhile, health issues are heating up on the campaign trail, as Republicans continue to take aim at Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act — all things Democrats are delighted to defend. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Tony Leys, who wrote a KFF Health News-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature about Medicare and a very expensive air-ambulance ride. Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week they think you should read, too.

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