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What’s Lost: Trump Whacks Tiny Agency That Works To Make the Nation’s Health Care Safer

By Arthur Allen April 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has helped improve health care safety in a country where thousands die of medical errors each year. It was effectively dissolved Tuesday.

Millions of Aging Americans Are Facing Dementia by Themselves

By Judith Graham October 15, 2024 KFF Health News Original

In a health care system that assumes older adults have family caregivers to help them, those facing dementia by themselves often fall through the cracks.

In the Vast Expanses of Indian Country, Broadband Gaps Create Health Gaps, Too

By Sarah Jane Tribble December 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

On Idaho’s remote Fort Hall Reservation, thousands live without reliable high-speed internet, which supports health care, education, and daily life. Facing delays and wavering federal policy, Frances Goli is determined to spend more than $22 million in federal grant money before she runs out of time.

Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress.

By Fred Clasen-Kelly and Renuka Rayasam October 28, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. The government, some critics argue, is often the underlying culprit.

States Are Cutting Medicaid Provider Payments Long Before Trump Cuts Hit

By Bram Sable-Smith and Sarah Jane Tribble September 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

North Carolina and Idaho are cutting their Medicaid programs to bridge budget gaps, raising fears that providers will stop taking patients and that hospitals will close even before the brunt of a new federal tax-and-budget law takes effect.

Health Care Groups Aim To Counter Growing ‘National Scandal’ of Elder Homelessness

By Felice J. Freyer August 18, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing homes as homelessness grows.

Even as SNAP Resumes, New Work Rules Threaten Access for Years To Come

By Renuka Rayasam and Katheryn Houghton and Samantha Liss December 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Even as the federal government resumed funding the nation’s largest food assistance program, people risk losing access to the aid because of new rules.

California Fails to Adequately Help Blind and Deaf Prisoners, US Judge Rules

By Don Thompson April 12, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Thirty years after prisoners with disabilities sued and 25 years after a federal court first ordered accommodations, a judge found that California prison and parole officials still are not doing enough to help deaf and blind prisoners — in part because they are not providing readily available technology such as video recordings and laptop computers.

A Boy’s Bicycling Death Haunts a Black Neighborhood. 35 Years Later, There’s Still No Sidewalk.

By Renuka Rayasam and Fred Clasen-Kelly October 8, 2024 KFF Health News Original

John Parker was in first grade when he was struck by a pickup truck driving on Durham’s Cheek Road, which lacks sidewalks to this day. Neighborhoods with no sidewalks, damaged walkways, and roads with high speed limits are concentrated in Black neighborhoods, research finds.

The Nation’s Largest Food Aid Program Is About To See Cuts. Here’s What You Should Know.

By Katheryn Houghton and Samantha Liss and Renuka Rayasam October 31, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The federal government is making sweeping changes to SNAP, the program that helped feed about 42 million people in the U.S. last year. Here’s a breakdown of the changes to come and potential impacts.

To Keep Medicaid, Mom Caring for Disabled Adult Son Faces Prospect of Proving She Works

By Bram Sable-Smith Updated July 3, 2025 Originally Published July 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A proposed work requirement would make Medicaid expansion enrollees prove they’re working or meet other criteria. Most already work, but millions are expected to lose coverage if the provision passes, many from red tape. A Missouri mother who cares for her disabled son would probably be subject to the rule.

California May Regulate and Restrict Pharmaceutical Brokers

By Don Thompson September 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California lawmakers are moving to rein in the pharmaceutical middlemen they say drive up costs and limit consumers’ choices. The bill sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom would require pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed in California and would ban some business practices. Newsom vetoed a previous effort three years ago.

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research

By Arthur Allen September 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to politicos, NIH workers say.

Back Pain? Bum Knee? Be Prepared to Wait for a Physical Therapist

By Mark Kreidler November 28, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Physical therapists left the field en masse during the covid-19 pandemic, even as demand from aging baby boomers skyrocketed. While universities try to boost their training programs to increase the number of graduates, patients seeking relief from often debilitating pain are left to wait.

Even Political Rivals Agree That Medical Debt Is an Urgent Issue

By Noam N. Levey October 7, 2024 KFF Health News Original

In red and blue states, state lawmakers from both parties are expanding protections for patients burdened by medical debt.

Too Sick To Work, Some Americans Worry Trump’s Bill Will Strip Their Health Insurance

By Phil Galewitz and Stephanie Armour June 27, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Republicans claim 4.8 million Americans on Medicaid who could work choose not to. The GOP’s work-requirement legislation could sweep up disabled people who say they’re unable to hold jobs.

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.

As Federal Health Grants Shrink, Memory Cafes Help Dementia Patients and Their Caregivers

By Lydia McFarlane, WVIA June 10, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Memory cafes are small social gatherings for individuals with memory loss and their caregivers. The events are cheap to run and can offer measurable benefits. Memory loss experts say they may become an even more important tool in the face of federal cuts to health programs.

Readers Offer Their Takes on the Opioid Crisis, Family Doctor Shortage, and Vaccine Policies

January 30, 2025 KFF Health News Original

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

Even Where Abortion Is Still Legal, Many Brick-and-Mortar Clinics Are Closing

By Kate Wells, Michigan Public May 16, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Some clinics that provide abortions are closing, even in states where voters have passed some of the nation’s broadest abortion protections. It’s happening in places like New York, Illinois, and Michigan, as reproductive health care faces new financial pressures.

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