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Voters Fret High Medical Bills Are Being Ignored by Presidential Rivals

By Noam N. Levey Updated October 24, 2024 Originally Published October 24, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Health care hasn’t figured prominently on the campaign trail this fall. These voters wish it would.

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.

‘If They Cut Too Much, People Will Die’: Health Coalition Pushes GOP on Medicaid Funding

By Christine Mai-Duc April 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

As House Republicans mull a massive $880 billion cut from federal programs likely including Medicaid, constituents, disability advocates, and health care providers are joining forces to lobby GOP members in California — including those who represent rural, deeply conservative pockets that stand to lose the most.

In Trump’s Team, Supplement Fans Find Kindred Spirits in Search of Better Health

By Darius Tahir March 13, 2025 KFF Health News Original

President Donald Trump’s health team has deep financial ties to the supplements industry. Now they’re poised to boost its growth and remake the government’s approach to health.

Medicaid Expansion Debate Will Affect Other Health Policy Issues Before Montana Legislature

By Mike Dennison and Sue O'Connell January 8, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Legislative leaders say the decision whether to renew Montana’s Medicaid expansion program this year will loom over behavioral health spending and hospital regulation, among other topics.

Rescue From Above: How Drones May Narrow Emergency Response Times

By Michelle Andrews July 22, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Public safety and health care organizations are using drones to speed up lifesaving treatment during medical emergencies in which every second counts.

Two Patients Faced Chemo. The One Who Survived Demanded a Test To See if It Was Safe.

By Arthur Allen June 4, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Worried that President Donald Trump’s FDA might not act, a panel of cancer experts recommended that doctors consider testing before dosing patients with a commonly used but sometimes deadly cancer drug. It came too late for many patients.

Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies

By Arielle Zionts May 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, including a South Dakota hospital that serves small towns, farming communities, and a Native American reservation. Patients there now travel at least an hour to give birth.

Extended-Stay Hotels, a Growing Option for Poor Families, Can Lead to Health Problems for Kids

By Andy Miller and Renuka Rayasam Updated October 16, 2024 Originally Published October 11, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Extended-stay hotels are often a last resort for low-income families trying to avoid homelessness. But hotel living can lead to — or exacerbate — various physical and mental health issues for children, say advocates for families and researchers who study homelessness.

Chronically Ill? In Kennedy’s View, It Might Be Your Own Fault

By Stephanie Armour July 31, 2025 KFF Health News Original

In their zeal to “Make America Healthy Again,” top Trump administration officials depict patients and the doctors who treat them as partly responsible for whatever ails them.

Florida’s RSV Season Has Started, and It’s Coming Soon to the Rest of US. Here’s a Primer.

By Sam Ogozalek, Tampa Bay Times July 31, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Florida’s RSV season begins earlier and runs longer than anywhere else in the U.S., according to the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute. New vaccines can help, but most older adults, who are vulnerable to RSV, haven’t gotten them yet.

Newsom Offers a Compromise to Protect Indoor Workers from Heat

By Samantha Young Updated April 18, 2024 Originally Published April 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

After rejecting proposed rules to protect millions of workers in sweltering warehouses, steamy kitchens, and other hot workplaces, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has offered a compromise to allow the protections to take effect this summer. But state and local correctional workers — and prisoners — would have to wait even longer.

Happening in Springfield: New Immigrants Offer Economic Promise, Health System Challenges

By Stephanie Armour October 10, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Donald Trump put Springfield, Ohio, in a harsh spotlight by spreading misinformation about its legal Haitian population. But what is really happening in this small city is a microcosm of the health care challenges immigration hot spots throughout the country are facing.

California Lawmakers Debate Sending Local Health Inspectors Into Immigration Facilities

By Vanessa G. Sánchez July 30, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Immigration is regulated by the federal government, but California lawmakers may give local public health inspectors the authority to inspect privately operated immigration detention facilities, citing complaints and lawsuits from detainees alleging inadequate medical care and unsanitary conditions.

La rapidez de acción de los transeúntes puede mejorar la supervivencia tras un paro cardíaco. Pero muchos no saben qué hacer.

By Michelle Andrews April 30, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Según la Asociación Americana del Corazón, en Estados Unidos ocurren más de 350.000 paros cardíacos cada año fuera del ámbito hospitalario.

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.

In San Francisco’s Chinatown, a CEO Works With the Community To Bolster Hospital

By Bernard J. Wolfson April 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Jian Zhang, an immigrant from China with a doctorate in nursing, leads the 88-bed Chinese Hospital in San Francisco. The facility faces financial constraints like other independent hospitals, but its strong community support and partnerships have helped it weather tough times.

People With Down Syndrome Are Living Longer, but the Health System Still Treats Many as Kids

By Tony Leys April 17, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The median life expectancy for a U.S. baby born with Down syndrome jumped from about four years in 1950 to 58 years in the 2010s. That’s largely because they no longer can be denied lifesaving care, including surgeries for heart defects. But now, aging adults with Down syndrome face a health system unprepared to care for them.

San Francisco Tries Tough Love by Tying Welfare to Drug Rehab

By Ronnie Cohen May 13, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Facing an overdose epidemic and public fury over conditions on the streets, famously tolerant San Francisco will start requiring welfare recipients to undergo drug screening, and treatment if necessary, to receive cash public assistance.

Inmigrantes en California dudan en pedir cobertura médica por miedo a ser deportados

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett July 1, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Las redadas federales de inmigración, que parecen haber afectado al menos a una clínica de salud en el estado, ya están provocando que algunas personas teman buscar atención médica.

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