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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Happy 60th, Medicare and Medicaid!

August 21, 2025 Podcast

This summer marks the 60th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, the twin government programs that have shaped the health care system into what it is today. In this special episode, KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner interviews two experts on the history, significance, and future of these programs: Medicare historian and University of North Carolina professor Jonathan Oberlander and George Washington University professor emerita Sara Rosenbaum, who has studied Medicaid since nearly its beginning and has helped shape Medicaid policy over the past four decades.

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Readers Weigh In on Making American Health Care Affordable Again

July 31, 2025 KFF Health News Original

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

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Trump’s Already Gone Back on His Promise To Leave Abortion to States

By Julie Rovner February 5, 2025 KFF Health News Original

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump said the power to make abortion policies “has been returned to the states.” In his first two weeks in office, he’s already gone further to restrict abortion than any president who’s held office since the 1973 “Roe v. Wade” decision, writes Julie Rovner.

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Abortion Clinics — And Patients — Are on the Move as State Laws Shift

By Bram Sable-Smith September 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Last month, Planned Parenthood Great Plains opened its newest clinic in Pittsburg, Kan., a city of about 21,000 people mere minutes from the borders of both Missouri and Oklahoma. It’s the second new clinic the regional affiliate has opened in Kansas in a little over two years, to accommodate the growing number of patients coming […]

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Médicos, callados mientras Florida busca terminar con décadas de mandatos de vacunación infantil

By Arthur Allen October 28, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Sin embargo, si las tasas de vacunación bajan, aumentan los casos de enfermedades como sarampión, hepatitis, meningitis y neumonía e incluso podrían regresar enfermedades como la difteria y la poliomielitis.

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‘Alternative Facts’ Aren’t a Reason To Skip Vaccines

By Elisabeth Rosenthal August 14, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to defund mRNA research is just the latest to put ideology above public health.

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A digital illustration in bright copic marker and pencil shows a repetitive dollar-sign motif with two solid circles overlapping in the center of the image. Where they overlap, there is a binary-code pattern of zeroes and 1s, which represents information shared digitally. Two hands reach out of the digital space. The hand on the left holds a bag of over-the-counter products. The hand on the right holds a smartphone with an app open, showing sponsored advertisements for the same products in the bag to the left.

Need to Get Plan B or an HIV Test Online? Facebook May Know About It

By Darius Tahir and Simon Fondrie-Teitler, The Markup Illustration by Oona Zenda June 30, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Twelve of the largest drugstores in the U.S. sent shoppers’ sensitive health information to Facebook or other platforms, according to an investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News.

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An Arm and a Leg: The Medicare Episode

By Dan Weissmann March 11, 2024 Podcast

On this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” host Dan Weissmann breaks down the complicated and expensive world of Medicare with practical tips to pick the right plan and avoid penalties.

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With Property Seized and Federal Funding Uncertain, Montana Asbestos Clinic Fights for Its Life

By Aaron Bolton, MTPR June 20, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, closed in May after a court judgment allowing BNSF Railway to seize its assets. Now, the clinic’s federal funding is in jeopardy, too.

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Trump Is Wrong in Claiming Full Credit for Lowering Insulin Prices

By Jacob Gardenswartz July 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Though the Trump administration established a voluntary, temporary program lowering insulin costs for some older Americans on Medicare, the mandatory price caps implemented through Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act go significantly further.

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Trump Doesn’t Need Congress To Make Abortion Effectively Unavailable

By Julie Rovner November 27, 2024 KFF Health News Original

President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail not to sign a nationwide abortion ban. But he wouldn’t need to do so to make abortion difficult, or illegal, writes KFF Health News’ chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner.

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Employers Haven’t a Clue How Their Drug Benefits Are Managed

By Arthur Allen October 9, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The Big Three pharmacy benefit managers say they return nearly all the rebates they get from drugmakers to the employers and insurers who hire them. But most employers seem to doubt that.

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A inmigrantes con problemas de salud se les podría negar la visa para entrar al país, por nueva directiva del gobierno de Trump

By Amanda Seitz November 6, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Los extranjeros que solicitan visas para vivir en Estados Unidos podrían ser rechazados si tienen ciertas afecciones médicas, como obesidad o diabetes, según una directiva emitida el jueves 6 de noviembre por la administración Trump.

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

By Paula Span July 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

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

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A digital illustration of the United States where 12 states are highlighted and a magnifying glass focuses on Missouri where text from an opioid settlement fund report is shown within the state borders.

12 States Promised To Open the Books on Their Opioid Settlement Funds. We Checked Up on Them.

By Aneri Pattani November 7, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Victims of the opioid crisis, health advocates, and public policy experts have repeatedly called on state and local governments to transparently report how they’re using the funds they are receiving from settlements with opioid makers and distributors.

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Las clínicas de abortos, y sus pacientes, se movilizan a medida que cambian las leyes estatales

By Bram Sable-Smith September 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

El fallo de la Corte dejó en manos de los estados las políticas sobre el aborto. Desde entonces, 14 estados promulgaron prohibiciones a la práctica que contemplan unas pocas excepciones, mientras que otros han restringido el acceso.

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Abortion Ballot Measures Won’t Automatically Undo Existing Laws

By Bram Sable-Smith June 28, 2024 KFF Health News Original

On Tuesday, a judge in Michigan blocked some of the state’s lingering restrictions on abortion access, including a mandatory 24-hour waiting period. The ruling comes 19 months after voters added abortion rights to the state constitution in November 2022. Michigan was one of the first states to protect abortion access at the ballot box after […]

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Not Serious Enough To Turn on the Siren, Toddler’s 39-Mile Ambulance Ride Still Cost Over $9,000

By Tony Leys November 25, 2025 KFF Health News Original

After her son contracted a serious bacterial infection, an Ohio mother took the toddler to a nearby ER, and staffers there sent him to a children’s hospital in an ambulance. With no insurance, the family was hit with a $9,250 bill for the 40-minute ride.

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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

By Michelle Andrews June 18, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Patient advocates say they frequently hear from people who thought they didn’t need to sign up for Medicare when they turned 65 because they had group health coverage. That delay sometimes forces people to cover medical expenses themselves.

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Silence in Sikeston: Racism Can Make You Sick

By Cara Anthony September 10, 2024 Podcast

The “Silence in Sikeston” podcast explores what it means to live with racism and violence, then charts the toll on health — from hives and high blood pressure to struggles with mental health. The deaths of two Black men killed nearly 80 years apart in the same Missouri community anchor a conversation about the public health consequences of systemic bias.

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