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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

June 12, 2025 KFF Health News Original

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

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Catholic Hospital Offered Bucket, Towels to Woman It Denied an Abortion, California AG Said

By Molly Castle Work October 7, 2024 KFF Health News Original

In California, where abortion rights are guaranteed, there’s a loophole. The growth of Catholic hospital systems, which restrict reproductive health care, has left patients with no other option for care. That will be the case for pregnant women in Northern California, with a hospital set to close its birth center.

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Projected Surge in Uninsured Will Strain Local Health Systems

By Sam Whitehead and Renuka Rayasam September 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

In South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, many people go without health insurance, and the health system struggles as a result. Similar communities dot the nation, and more could face such difficulties under President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending law.

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¿Se puede confiar en una mamografía para identificar el riesgo de enfermedad cardíaca? 

By Michelle Andrews October 25, 2024 KFF Health News Original

La enfermedad cardíaca es la principal causa de muerte en los Estados Unidos. Fue responsable de más de 300,000 —o aproximadamente 1 de cada 5— muertes de mujeres en 2021.

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Biden Plan To Save Medicare Patients Money on Drugs Risks Empty Shelves, Pharmacists Say

By Susan Jaffe June 11, 2024 KFF Health News Original

President Joe Biden is campaigning for reelection on his efforts to cut costs for Medicare patients at the pharmacy counter. But independent pharmacists say one strategy makes it unaffordable for them to keep some brand-name medicines in stock.

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1st Biden-Trump Debate of 2024: What They Got Wrong, and Right

By KFF Health News and PolitiFact staffs June 28, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A debate marked by President Joe Biden’s faltering performance featured clashes over insulin costs, inflation, abortion, immigration, and Jan. 6.

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Amid Mental Health Staffing Crunch, Medi-Cal Patients Help One Another

By Indira Khera March 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Peer leaders can help ease the shortage of mental health providers and build trust through shared experiences, state health officials say. In 2022, California started allowing counties to use Medicaid dollars to pay them for their work.

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Medicaid Unwinding Deals Blow to Tenuous System of Care for Native Americans

By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez May 20, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Although Native American and Alaska Native adults are enrolled in Medicaid at higher rates than their white counterparts, many tribal leaders feel they’ve been left in the dark as states roll through the tumultuous Medicaid unwinding that started last year.

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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

By Lauren Sausser June 16, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Health insurers issue millions of prior authorization denials every year, leaving many patients stuck in a convoluted appeals process, with little hope of meaningful policy change ahead. For doctors, these denials are frustrating and time-consuming. For patients, they can be devastating.

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Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirements Costing Taxpayers Millions Despite Low Enrollment

By Andy Miller and Renuka Rayasam March 20, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s Georgia Pathways to Coverage program has seen anemic enrollment while chalking up millions in start-up costs — largely in technology and consulting fees. Critics say the money’s being wasted on a costly and ineffective alternative to Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.

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‘A Bottomless Pit’: How Out-of-Pocket TMJ Costs Drive Patients Into Debt

By Brett Kelman and Anna Werner, CBS News July 11, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Millions of Americans suffer from temporomandibular joint, or TMJ, disorders. The high cost and poor insurance coverage of TMJ care can bury patients in debt even as the treatments do more harm than good.

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Social Security Tackles Overpayment ‘Injustices,’ but Problems Remain

By David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group Updated November 18, 2024 Originally Published November 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

With his term soon to expire, Social Security chief Martin O’Malley’s efforts to address the agency’s overpayments to beneficiaries remain incomplete.

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El regreso de Trump a la Casa Blanca pondría en peligro la red de seguridad de atención médica

By Stephanie Armour November 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

El triunfo electoral del ex presidente Donald Trump y su regreso a la Casa Blanca probablemente traerán cambios que reducirían los programas nacionales de salud públicos, aumentando la tasa de personas sin seguro e imponiendo nuevas barreras al aborto y otros servicios de salud reproductiva.

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Surge in Syphilis Cases Leads Some Providers to Ration Penicillin

By Catherine Sweeney, WPLN February 1, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Injectable penicillin is the go-to treatment for syphilis and the only treatment considered safe for pregnant people with the disease. But as rates of syphilis increase across the U.S., a shortage of the injectable has prompted some public health agencies to ration it.

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Mysterious Morel Mushrooms at Center of Food Poisoning Outbreak

By Keely Larson Illustration by Oona Zenda December 18, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Federal officials issued their first guidelines on preparing morel mushrooms after a deadly food poisoning outbreak in Montana, noting the toxins in the delicacy aren’t fully understood.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: American Health Under Trump — Past, Present, and Future

September 19, 2024 Podcast

Dreaming of a Trump victory, Republicans have a wish list of health policy changes — including loosening Affordable Care Act regulations to make cheaper coverage available and ending Medicare drug price negotiations. Meanwhile, after a publicly reported death stemming from a state abortion ban, Vice President Kamala Harris is emphasizing the consequences of Trump’s work to overturn Roe v. Wade. Tami Luhby of CNN, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Joanne Kenen of Politico and Johns Hopkins University join KFF Health News senior editor Emmarie Huetteman to discuss these stories and more.

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GOP’s Tim Sheehy Revives Discredited Abortion Claims in Pivotal Senate Race

By Matt Volz July 9, 2024 KFF Health News Original

In Montana’s U.S. Senate race, Republican Tim Sheehy made the false claim that his Democratic opponent, incumbent Sen. Jon Tester, supports abortion “up to and including the moment of birth.”

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Rapid Rise in Syphilis Hits Native Americans Hardest

By Cecilia Nowell March 21, 2024 KFF Health News Original

With U.S. syphilis rates climbing to the worst level in seven decades, public health experts and the federal Indian Health Service are scrambling to detect and treat the disease in Native American communities, where babies are infected at a higher rate than in any other demographic.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Congress Punts to a Looming Lame-Duck Session

September 26, 2024 Podcast

Congress left Washington for the campaign trail this week, but not before approving a spending bill that expires shortly before Christmas. Lawmakers will be busy after the election working on not just the legislation needed to keep the government running, but also several health programs set to expire. Meanwhile, Republicans continue to downplay abortion as Democrats press it as a campaign issue. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Lauren Weber of The Washington Post, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.

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Ten Doctors on FDA Panel Reviewing Abbott Heart Device Had Financial Ties With Company

By David Hilzenrath and Holly K. Hacker April 8, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Most of the doctors the FDA tapped to advise it on an Abbott medical device had financial ties to the company. The FDA didn’t disclose the payments.

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