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PBM Math: Big Chains Are Paid $23.55 To Fill a Blood Pressure Rx. Small Drugstores? $1.51.

By Andy Miller October 24, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Criticism of prescription drug middlemen has intensified recently in the wake of a federal agency’s actions and legislative reform attempts. Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, though, vetoed a related bill that would have helped independent pharmacies, citing the unfunded cost of the move.

Trump Says He’ll Stop Health Care Fraudsters. Last Time, He Let Them Walk.

By Brett Kelman April 1, 2025 KFF Health News Original

In his first term, President Donald Trump granted pardons or clemency to more than 60 convicted fraudsters, including health care executives who defrauded Medicare out of hundreds of millions of dollars, courts and juries found. Now, Trump says cracking down on fraud is a priority.

To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health Care

By Julie Rovner July 2, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Republicans are attempting to use the budget reconciliation process to boost President Donald Trump’s priorities and reduce health coverage. That process has been used to pass nearly every major piece of health legislation for decades — except usually lawmakers use it to expand health care, not cut it, writes Julie Rovner.

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‘MAGA’ Backers Like Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ — Until They Learn of Health Consequences

By Phil Galewitz June 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A new poll finds that most adults oppose the GOP bill that would extend many of President Donald Trump’s tax cuts while reducing spending on domestic programs including Medicaid. Most Trump backers support the plan until they learn that millions would lose health coverage and local hospitals would lose funding.

Health Issues Motivating Black Women Voters for Harris

By Stephanie Armour October 14, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Vice President Kamala Harris, now on the presidential campaign trail, is making inroads with a key voting bloc: Black women, who are rallying behind her because of her work on issues such as preserving abortion access, curbing gun violence and reducing maternal deaths. What has become clear is not just that this voting group supports […]

‘Abortion as Homicide’ Debate in South Carolina Exposes GOP Rift as States Weigh New Restrictions

By Lauren Sausser and Bram Sable-Smith January 12, 2026 KFF Health News Original

A proposed abortion ban in South Carolina would have allowed the criminal prosecution of women who obtain the procedure. It’s unlikely to become law, but this bill and other proposals across the country show how some conservative lawmakers are embracing increasingly punitive abortion restrictions.

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

By Elisabeth Rosenthal July 18, 2025 KFF Health News Original

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.

Republicans Once Wanted Government out of Health Care. Trump Voters See It Differently.

By Noam N. Levey February 27, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Frustrated by high health care prices, many who backed President Donald Trump support strong government actions to protect patients. It’s unclear whether GOP leaders will listen.

Can You Rely on Your Mammogram To Identify Heart Disease Risk?

By Michelle Andrews October 23, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Clinicians and researchers are searching for answers to whether an incidental finding on breast X-rays could improve the detection of cardiovascular disease risk among women.

I Was There When Bird Flu First Appeared. It’s Different Today.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal May 21, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The H5N1 flu virus and I go way back. In 1997, I watched as more than a million chickens were slaughtered in Hong Kong to combat the first major global outbreak of the disease. Eighteen people were sickened by the virus and six died, all of whom had close contact with the birds. They were […]

Cancer Stole Her Voice. She Used AI, Curse Words, and Kids’ Books To Get It Back.

By April Dembosky, KQED November 21, 2025 KFF Health News Original

After a total glossectomy and laryngectomy to treat her cancer, Sonya Sotinsky can no longer speak. She searched for a way to sound like herself again and now pays out-of-pocket for an artificial intelligence app that can replicate her old voice — emotion, inflection, and all.

Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity

By Michelle Andrews January 6, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Advocates say it is discrimination and are arguing for “insurance fairness” on the grounds that people who have joints surgically replaced typically don’t face the same kinds of coverage challenges.

Top California Democrats Clash Over How To Rein In Drug Industry Middlemen

By Christine Mai-Duc February 13, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Frustrated by spiraling drug costs, California lawmakers want to increase oversight of pharmaceutical industry intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers. It’s unclear whether they can persuade Gov. Gavin Newsom to get on board.

Medicaid Payments Barely Keep Hospital Mental Health Units Afloat. Federal Cuts Could Sink Them.

By Tony Leys May 12, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Patients seeking mental health care are more likely to be on Medicaid than patients in more profitable areas of care, such as cancer or cardiac treatment.

Listen: Inroads for Women in California’s Health Care Workforce

October 16, 2023 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart leads a discussion about the role women play as California grapples with a shortage of health care providers.

Refugees Will Be Among the First To Lose Food Stamps Under Federal Changes

By Renuka Rayasam October 30, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Under the budget law that Republicans call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, food assistance for refugees will be sliced. The change is sowing fear, uncertainty, and a struggle for survival — a sign of what’s to come for millions of Americans.

Harris’ Emphasis on Maternal Health Care Is Paying Dividends With Black Women Voters

By Stephanie Armour October 2, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Polls are showing renewed support from Black women voters for the Democratic ticket. Vice President Kamala Harris has backed key health priorities for Black women.

Trump’s White House Return Poised To Tangle Health Care Safety Net

By Stephanie Armour November 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The new Trump administration is likely to reduce subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance plans and roll back Medicaid coverage. Public health authorities worry that anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be empowered.

Federal Cuts Ripple Through a Bioscience Hub in Rural Montana

By Katheryn Houghton Updated May 27, 2025 Originally Published May 27, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, is one of only a few dozen research facilities of its type. The threat of staffing and grant cuts has town leaders worried and has added to long-standing tension around the lab’s presence in this politically conservative region.

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