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A Ticking Clock: How States Are Preparing for a Last-Minute Obamacare Deal

By Amanda Seitz and Julie Appleby October 28, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Even if Congress strikes a deal soon to extend more generous Affordable Care Act subsidies, the prices and types of ACA plans available could change dramatically. Unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval could cloud this year’s open enrollment season, which begins in most states on Saturday.

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An abstract illustration of overlapping hands increasing in size as they repeat upwards, holding a pill. The bottom half of the illustration shows a gavel with ripples that spread out from its impact. The ripples mirror the pattern of the hands above.

Abortion Clinics — And Patients — Are on the Move, as State Laws Keep Shifting

By Bram Sable-Smith Illustration by Oona Zenda September 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Clinics in states where most abortions are legal, such as Kansas and Illinois, are reporting an influx of inquiries from patients hundreds of miles away — and are expanding in response. Despite the Supreme Court’s overturning of federal protections in 2022, abortions are now at their highest numbers in a decade.

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A senior man sits in a chair. A nurse stands beside him with her hand on his back, like good friends. They are both smiling in the direction of the camera.

Dual Threats From Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers

By Jordan Rau June 26, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Understaffed nursing homes face a workforce crisis if President Donald Trump and Republicans further curtail immigration and cut Medicaid.

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An abstract illustration of overlapping hands increasing in size as they repeat upwards, holding a pill. The bottom half of the illustration shows a gavel with ripples that spread out from its impact. The ripples mirror the pattern of the hands above.

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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Three photos are shown in a collage. The left photo is a portrait of a woman standing indoors with a walker. The top right photo shows a woman in a hospital bed. The bottom right photo shows a man in a Kansas City Chiefs jersey carrying his daughter on his shoulders.

Tres personas heridas en el desfile del Super Bowl viven con balas que siguen alojadas en sus cuerpos

By Bram Sable-Smith and Peggy Lowe, KCUR May 8, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A casi tres meses del tiroteo en el desfile del Super Bowl de los Kansas City Chiefs, que dejó al menos 24 personas heridas, recuperarse de esas heridas es algo profundamente personal e incluye una sorprendente área gris de la medicina: si las balas deberían o no extraerse.

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Three photos are shown in a collage. The left photo is a portrait of a woman standing indoors with a walker. The top right photo shows a woman in a hospital bed. The bottom right photo shows a man in a Kansas City Chiefs jersey carrying his daughter on his shoulders.

Three People Shot at Super Bowl Parade Grapple With Bullets Left in Their Bodies

By Bram Sable-Smith and Peggy Lowe, KCUR May 8, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Despite the rise of gun violence in America, few medical guidelines exist on removing bullets from survivors’ bodies. In the second installment of our series “The Injured,” we meet three people shot at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade who are dealing with the bullets inside them in different ways.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: 100 Days of Health Policy Upheaval

May 1, 2025 Podcast

Members of Congress are back in Washington, and Republicans are struggling to find ways to reduce Medicaid spending without cutting benefits. Meanwhile, confusion continues to reign at the Department of Health and Human Services. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.

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Under Pressure, Montana Hospital Considers Adding Psych Beds Amid a Shortage

By Katheryn Houghton September 14, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A hospital in Bozeman, Montana, is considering whether to add inpatient psychiatric care after a concerted push from mental health advocates. But even if it adds beds, hospitals across Montana provide a cautionary tale: finding enough workers to staff such beds is its own challenge, and some behavioral health units routinely reach capacity.

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Which Was Worse: The Bachelor Party Hangover Or The Hangover From The ER Bill?

By Markian Hawryluk September 19, 2019 KFF Health News Original

One groom’s bachelor party hangover illustrates how emergency room bills have become major headaches for many Americans.

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Health Care Industry ‘Pays Tribute’ To California’s Influential Lawmakers

By Samantha Young December 15, 2018 KFF Health News Original

The leaders of California’s legislative health committees who wield power over state health policy have been showered with money from the health care sector, with drug companies, health plans, hospitals and doctors providing nearly 40 percent of their 2017-18 campaign funds.

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Group Appointments With Doctors: When Three Isn’t A Crowd

By Michelle Andrews March 19, 2013 KFF Health News Original

More doctors are holding appointments with multiple patients, a trend some say may help ease a forecasted shortage of physicians.

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Aging Doctors Face Greater Scrutiny

By Sandra G. Boodman December 10, 2012 KFF Health News Original

There are no mandatory retirement ages for doctors or formal evaluations of their skills, but some hospitals are now requiring older physicians to have periodic physical and cognitive exams.

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Spouses Face Hurdles When Caring For Themselves, Ill Loved Ones

By Paula Span May 25, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Family caregivers now administer arsenals of medications and undertake procedures, from wound care to dialysis, that were once the province of medical professionals.

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The House Bill Costs Far More Than $1 Trillion

By James C. Capretta July 23, 2009 KFF Health News Original

House Democratic leaders have been selling the health care bill — now reported out by two of the three House committees to which it had been referred — as costing “only” $1 trillion over a decade. But that’s not really the whole story.

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