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As the Trump Administration and States Push Health Data Sharing, Familiar Challenges Surface

By Sarah Kwon September 23, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Despite billions of tax dollars and two decades of effort invested in improving health care data sharing, Americans’ medical records often remain siloed, leading to duplicate testing, increased costs, and wasted time for patients and doctors.

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As Health Companies Get Bigger, So Do the Bills. It’s Unclear if Trump’s Team Will Intervene.

By Elisabeth Rosenthal November 10, 2025 KFF Health News Original

As health systems, doctor groups, and insurers merge into ever-bigger giants, patient care gets more expensive. Yet the Trump administration has sent mixed signals about its willingness to intervene — and shown some disdain for Biden officials’ more aggressive approach.

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Work Requirements Might Cut Medicaid Spending. But at What Cost? 

By Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead May 2, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Get our weekly newsletter, The Week in Brief, featuring a roundup of our original coverage, Fridays at 2 p.m. ET.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Bill With Billions in Health Program Cuts Passes House

May 23, 2025 Podcast

The House narrowly passed a budget reconciliation bill, including billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy along with billions of dollars in cuts to health program spending. But the Senate is expected to make major changes to the measure before it can go to President Donald Trump for his signature. This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico.

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University of California Researchers, Patients Wary of Trump Cuts Even as Some Dollars Flow Again

By Christine Mai-Duc October 9, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Biomedical researchers and patients are caught in the middle as the Trump administration continues its campaign to strip grants from universities accused of bias. Courts have restored some frozen funds to California universities, but academics studying brain tumors, lung cancer, and strokes worry their grant dollars remain a bargaining chip.

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January 6, 2026 KFF Health News Original

The “KFF Health News Minute” brings original health care and health policy reporting from our newsroom to the airwaves each week.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Kennedy Cancels Vaccine Funding

August 7, 2025 Podcast

The Health and Human Services secretary is winding down nearly $500 million in mRNA research funding, citing false claims that the technology is ineffective against respiratory illnesses — and notching a victory for critics of the covid vaccines. And President Donald Trump is demanding drugmakers drop their prices, quickly, but it’s unclear how he could make them comply. Lauren Weber of The Washington Post, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News’ Emmarie Huetteman to discuss these stories and more.

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Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate

By Amy Maxmen February 14, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.

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GOP Presidential Hopefuls Use Trump’s Covid Record to Court Vaccine Skeptics

By Darius Tahir and Daniel Chang November 29, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Candidates see former President Donald Trump’s embrace of his administration’s covid-19 vaccine policies as an opportunity to gain ground. So far, their efforts haven’t found traction.

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Four Ways Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Undermine Access to Obamacare

By Julie Appleby June 11, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The combination of the House-passed spending and tax bill and the Trump administration’s regulatory action could change Affordable Care Act enrollment and the cost of insurance. The result, according to the Congressional Budget Office, is that millions of people may become uninsured.

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Rural Health Providers Could Be Collateral Damage From $100K Trump Visa Fee

By Arielle Zionts and Phillip Reese December 9, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Dozens of health care organizations have asked the Trump administration to shield the doctors, nurses, and techs they need to fill shortages from the president’s new $100,000 visa fee for skilled foreign workers. So far, there’s no sign of a reprieve.

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US Cancer Registries, Constrained by Trump Policies, To Recognize Only ‘Male’ or ‘Female’ Patients

By Rachana Pradhan November 21, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Under Trump policies, cancer registries in 2026 will have to classify sex data strictly as male, female, or unknown, a change scientists and advocates say will harm the health of one of the nation’s most marginalized populations.

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Florida’s Canada Drug Importation Plan Has Yet to Launch

By Phil Galewitz December 10, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) spent years complaining that the Biden administration was slow-walking federal approval of his plan to import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada — a concept endorsed by Donald Trump in 2020 just before his first presidential term ended. But nearly a year since the Food and Drug Administration green-lit the state’s […]

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This California Strategy Safeguarded Some Medicaid Social Services Funding From Trump

By Mark Kreidler January 13, 2026 KFF Health News Original

Programs like Jamboree Housing Corp. have leveraged Medi-Cal funding to offer residents access to social services that experts say are key to keeping them off the streets. California intends to keep it that way, despite federal cuts.

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In a Fractious Rerun, GOP Rivals Haley and DeSantis Debate Health Care. Trump Sits It Out.

By KFF Health News and PolitiFact staffs January 11, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The fifth debate of the 2024 GOP presidential primary season took place days before Iowa Republicans will caucus to determine their pick for the top of the party’s ticket. The front-runner, former President Donald Trump, once again did not participate.

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El alto costo del seguro médico pone en jaque a los granjeros

By Sarah Boden and Drew Hawkins, Gulf States Newsroom January 22, 2026 KFF Health News Original

Y ahora, los subsidios mejorados de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio, en los que muchos agricultores confiaban para comprar cobertura, no han sido renovados.

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Trump Administration Investigates Medicaid Spending on Immigrants in Blue States

By Angela Hart and Devi Shastri, The Associated Press September 5, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hunting for Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse in at least six Democratic-led states that expanded coverage to low-income and disabled immigrants without legal status, according to records obtained by KFF Health News and The Associated Press.

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Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Were Aimed at ‘Able-Bodied Adults.’ Hospitals Say Kids Will Be Hurt.

By Phil Galewitz September 10, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The GOP said its overhaul of Medicaid was aimed at reducing fraud and getting more adult beneficiaries to work. Among the likely side effects: fewer services and doctors for treating sick children.

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The Price Increases That Should Cause Americans More Alarm

By Elisabeth Rosenthal August 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The cost of health insurance is rising faster than the price of eggs or gasoline.

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Immigration Crackdowns Disrupt the Caregiving Industry. Families Pay the Price.

By Vanessa G. Sánchez and Daniel Chang April 4, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Families, nursing facilities, and home health agencies rely on foreign-born workers to fill health care jobs that are demanding and do not attract enough American citizens. The Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies threaten to cut a key source of labor for the industry, which was already predicting a surge in demand.

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