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KFF Health News Original Stories 5 ‘MAHA Report’ Calls for Fighting Chronic Disease, but Trump and Kennedy Have Yanked Funding Republican Megabill Will Mean Higher Health Costs for Many Americans As Mosquito Season Peaks, Officials Brace for New Normal of Dengue Cases To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health […]
Pueblo, Colorado, residents have higher-than-average medical debt, while the city’s two tax-exempt hospitals provide relatively low levels of charity care.
The profound and painful loss — 80 million years of life, compared with the white population — is a call to action to improve the health of Black Americans, especially infants, mothers, and seniors, researchers say.
A Colorado board has named five drugs it will review for affordability and potential cost caps. But patients with cystic fibrosis worry they will lose access to a life-changing therapy.
State and local governments will receive a windfall of more than $50 billion over 18 years from settlements with companies that made, sold, or distributed opioid painkillers. Using the funds for law enforcement has triggered important questions about what the money was meant for.
KFF Health News Original Stories 4 Parents Fear Losing Disability Protections as Trump Slashes Civil Rights Office An AI Assistant Can Interpret Those Lab Results for You Why Are More Older People Dying After Falls? Journalists Talk New ‘MAHA’ Strategy, RFK Jr.’s Tack at HHS, and Plight of Rural Hospitals Note To Readers Vaccines 2 […]
Although nearly 40% of Americans 60 and older are obese, Medicare doesn’t cover weight loss medications. Meanwhile, studies haven’t thoroughly examined new drugs’ impact on older adults.
The Department of Health and Human Services is tasked with monitoring denials both by Obamacare health plans and those offered through employers and insurers. As insurers’ denials become more common, they sometimes defy not just medical standards of care but sheer logic. Why hasn’t the agency fulfilled its assignment?
KFF Health News Original Stories 2 'Alternative Facts' Aren't a Reason To Skip Vaccines ‘A Fear Pandemic’: Immigration Raids Push Patients Into Telehealth Political Cartoon: 'Great Health Insurance?' Administration News 1 Billions In Foreign Aid Can Remain Frozen Or Terminated, Court Rules Vaccines 1 Effort To Halt Use Of mRNA Vaccines Also Puts Cancer Vaccine […]
Public health authorities are closely watching an unusual strain of bird flu that has infected dairy cows in nine states and at least one dairy worker. Meanwhile, another major health system suffered a cyberattack, and Congress is moving to extend the availability of telehealth services. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Rachel Cohrs Zhang of Stat join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Atul Grover of the Association of American Medical Colleges about its recent analysis showing that graduating medical students are avoiding training in states with abortion bans and major restrictions.
Consumers should know that this type of fraud can happen, whether from a large-scale breach or theft of an individual’s data. The result could be thousands of dollars in medical bills.
Medicaid work requirements, forever chemicals, nutrition and SNAP, uninsured, organ donation, genetics of obesity, 4-day work week, and more.
KFF Health News Original Stories 2 A Chicago Hospital Bows to Federal Pressure on Trans Care for Teens Winning a Two-Year Fight Over a Bogus Bill Political Cartoon: 'He Has A Lot of Nerve?' Note To Readers Administration News 1 988 Suicide Hotline For LGBTQ+ Youth Is Vulnerable To Trump Budget Cuts Public Health 1 […]
Medicare doc pay increase, funding shifts by White House, mifepristone access, early cancer detection tests, veteran DNA donations, and more.
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