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A photo illustration showing a stethoscope and hundred dollar bills coming from behind the U.S. capitol building.

Employers Press Congress To Cement Health Price Transparency Before Trump’s Return

By Julie Appleby December 20, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Donald Trump’s first administration advanced rules forcing hospitals and insurers to reveal prices for medical services. Employers don’t want to risk backtracking during Trump’s second administration.

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El crecimiento del empleo en salud se ve empañado por medidas contra inmigrantes y recortes a Medicaid

By Phillip Reese September 30, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Según economistas, las medidas del presidente Donald Trump contra la inmigración y los recortes a los programas de seguro público amenazan con frenar el crecimiento del sector.

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Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.’s NIH Slashed Science Funding Across States That Backed Trump

By Rae Ellen Bichell and Rachana Pradhan April 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A KFF Health News analysis underscores how the terminations have spared no part of the country, politically or geographically. Of the organizations that had grants cut in the first month, about 40% are in states President Donald Trump won in November.

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Baltimore Drove Down Gun Deaths. Now Trump Has Slashed Funding for That Work.

By Renuka Rayasam December 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A spike in shootings during the covid pandemic propelled community violence intervention, a field that aims to stop gun deaths at the root. Baltimore used federal funds to launch a violence prevention office. But President Donald Trump has throttled such funds and instead is sending troops into cities.

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This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the CDC

By Amy Maxmen December 10, 2025 KFF Health News Original

HIV physician John Weiser talks about why complying with President Donald Trump’s orders to erase transgender people is bad for science and society. And he notes that acquiescing didn’t spare the CDC from further harm.

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Native Americans Want To Avoid Past Medicaid Enrollment Snafus as Work Requirements Loom

By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez August 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

As states prepare to implement changes to Medicaid required by President Donald Trump’s recent tax-and-spending law, tribal leaders say they are concerned Native American enrollees could lose their coverage, despite exemptions made by Congress.

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Insurers and Customers Brace for Double Whammy to Obamacare Premiums

By Julie Appleby July 18, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Consumers face both rising premiums and falling subsidies next year in Obamacare plans, with insurers seeking increases to cover not only rising costs but also some policy changes advanced by President Donald Trump and the GOP.

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Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away From Housing, Toward Forced Treatment

By Angela Hart March 27, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The Trump administration is moving to end the “Housing First” approach despite warnings from providers and homelessness experts that the shift won’t work. But with homelessness rising, President Donald Trump could find allies in blue cities and states as the public clamors for streets to be cleaned up.

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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.

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Watch: The Dr. Oz Show Comes to Congress

By Julie Rovner and Rachana Pradhan and Stephanie Armour Video by Hannah Norman March 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The Senate Finance Committee questioned Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. KFF Health News reporters discussed the biggest takeaways from the hearing.

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Health Providers Gird for Immigration Crackdown

By Vanessa G. Sánchez January 24, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Different states are offering starkly different guidelines to hospitals, community clinics, and other health facilities for interacting with immigrant patients as President Donald Trump issues a flurry of executive orders on immigration.

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What To Know About Trump’s Executive Orders on US Health Care 

By Tarena Lofton January 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

From rolling back drug pricing policies to limiting gender-affirming care, President Donald Trump signed several health-related executive orders in the first hours of his second presidency. Here’s a roundup of the changes and what they mean.

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Trump Wants Harris To Pay a Political Price for Generous Immigrant Health Policies

By Joanne Kenen November 1, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Several Democratic-led states have expanded public insurance programs to cover immigrants in the U.S. regardless of legal status. Donald Trump is trying to blame Kamala Harris for the policies.

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What Trump’s Executive Order on Gender Means for Trans Health Care

By Bram Sable-Smith January 24, 2025 KFF Health News Original

In his first days in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on gender that affects transgender health care. The order aims to directly limit care for trans people incarcerated in federal prisons, but the broader implications on health aren’t clear-cut.

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In Rush To Satisfy Trump, GOP Delivers Blow to Health Industry

By Phil Galewitz and Stephanie Armour July 14, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The health industry couldn’t persuade GOP lawmakers to oppose big Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill for many reasons. A big one: Congressional Republicans were more worried about angering Trump than a backlash from hospitals and low-income constituents back home.

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Trump Froze Out Project 2025 in His Campaign. Now Its Blueprint Is His Health Care Playbook.

By Stephanie Armour February 24, 2025 KFF Health News Original

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from the conservative governing plan after Democratic attacks. But now it’s increasingly viewed as a blueprint for his administration’s plans for federal health programs.

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Trump Says He’ll Stop Health Care Fraudsters. Last Time, He Let Them Walk.

By Brett Kelman April 1, 2025 KFF Health News Original

In his first term, President Donald Trump granted pardons or clemency to more than 60 convicted fraudsters, including health care executives who defrauded Medicare out of hundreds of millions of dollars, courts and juries found. Now, Trump says cracking down on fraud is a priority.

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This Physician-Scientist Is Taking on Trump on Behalf of Disadvantaged Communities

By Don Thompson August 5, 2025 KFF Health News Original

California researcher Neeta Thakur is leading a challenge to President Donald Trump’s new administration — one that pits public health science against political ideology. Whether she prevails could influence both the future of academic research and the health of those she’s spent her life trying to help.

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Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Assignments to Guantánamo

By Amy Maxmen February 9, 2026 KFF Health News Original

U.S. Public Health Service doctors and nurses are being deployed to Guantánamo and other detention centers as President Donald Trump escalates mass arrests in his campaign to curb immigration. Some have resigned in protest. Others offer a rare look into bleak conditions.

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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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