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9 States Poised To End Coverage for Millions if Trump Cuts Medicaid Funding

By Phil Galewitz December 4, 2024 KFF Health News Original

About 3.7 million people are at immediate risk of losing health coverage should the federal government cut funding for Medicaid expansions, as some allies of President-elect Donald Trump have proposed. Coverage could be at risk in the 40 states that have expanded Medicaid.

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.

Checking the Facts on Medicaid Use by Latinos

By Paula Andalo and Isabel Rubio, Factchequeado March 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Republicans’ moves to scale back Medicaid are leading to more misinformation about immigrants, especially Latinos, circulating on social media platforms. The misconceptions include the myths that Latinos covered by Medicaid don’t work and that they use Medicaid significantly more than others.

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.

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.

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.

An Age-Old Fear Grows More Common: ‘I’m Going To Die Alone’

By Judith Graham Illustration by Oona Zenda October 16, 2025 KFF Health News Original

As families fracture, people are living longer and are more likely to find themselves without close relatives or friends at the end of their lives.

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.

Horse Sedative Use Among Humans Spreads in Deadly Mixture of ‘Tranq’ and Fentanyl

By Sam Ogozalek, Tampa Bay Times February 26, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Illegal supplies of fentanyl are being cut with xylazine, a powerful horse tranquilizer. Overdoses involving this veterinary sedative are growing nationally and now Florida officials are tracking the deaths.

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.

The Colorado Psychedelic Mushroom Experiment Has Arrived

By Kate Ruder March 24, 2025 KFF Health News Original

With the first licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms issued, excitement and questions build about the fungi’s potential, affordability, and safety in the Centennial State.

As Interest From Families Wanes, Pediatricians Scale Back on Covid Shots

By Jackie Fortiér September 4, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Pediatricians want to vaccinate kids, but some say they’re keeping their stockpile of covid vaccines low to avoid being stuck with costly, unwanted shots. They can’t afford to stock up on costly shots that parents don’t want.

Preparing to Hang Up the Car Keys as We Age

By Judith Graham January 24, 2024 KFF Health News Original

As cognitive skills erode with age, driving skills weaken, but an aging driver may not recognize that. Advance directives on driving are one way to handle this challenge.

Medicaid Advocates Say Critics Use Loaded Terms To Gain Edge in Congressional Debate

By Phil Galewitz March 7, 2025 KFF Health News Original

As policymakers in Washington debate potentially steep funding cuts to Medicaid, Republicans are using terms such as “money laundering” and “discrimination” to make their case. Language experts and Medicaid advocates say their word choice is misleading and designed to sway the public against the popular program.

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.

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.

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.

Blood Transfusions at the Scene Save Lives. But Ambulances Are Rarely Equipped To Do Them.

By Michelle Andrews February 10, 2025 KFF Health News Original

More than 60,000 people bleed to death every year in the United States. Many of those deaths occur before the patient reaches a trauma center where blood transfusions can be given.

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