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Language Service Cutbacks Raise Fear of Medical Errors, Misdiagnoses, Deaths

By Vanessa G. Sánchez and Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez May 29, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Federal cuts are hurting community organizations in California that provide language assistance services to people who speak limited English. Despite President Trump’s executive order declaring English the national language, millions in the U.S. need help navigating the health system.

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Trump HHS Eliminates Office That Sets Poverty Levels Tied to Benefits for at Least 80 Million People

By Arthur Allen Updated April 11, 2025 Originally Published April 11, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for Medicaid as well as assistance with food, home heating, child care, and more.

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Trump’s Picks for Top Health Jobs Not Just Team of Rivals but ‘Team of Opponents’

By Stephanie Armour and Julie Rovner December 17, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The president-elect’s choices to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, FDA, and CDC, hold positions on issues including abortion and vaccination that are often at odds.

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Trump Administration’s Halt of CDC’s Weekly Scientific Report Stalls Bird Flu Studies

By Amy Maxmen January 30, 2025 KFF Health News Original

An unprecedented freeze on the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report sparks new concerns about political meddling in science.

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Housing, Nutrition in Peril as Trump Pulls Back Medicaid Social Services

By Angela Hart May 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

About half of states have broadened Medicaid, the state-federal low-income health care program, to pay for social services such as housing and nutritional support. The Trump administration, however, views these experiments as distractions from the core mission to provide health care.

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Election Outcome Could Bring Big Changes to Medicare

By Stephanie Armour Updated November 4, 2024 Originally Published November 4, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Democrats and conservatives are divided over whether the federal health program for people over 65 should be run almost entirely by the private sector. If Trump retakes the White House, the shift to Medicare Advantage may accelerate.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': 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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Trump Team’s $500 Million Bet on Old Vaccine Technology Puzzles Scientists

By Arthur Allen May 5, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS said an enormous, noncompetitive flu vaccine development grant to two favored NIH leaders would ensure “transparency, effectiveness, and comprehensive preparedness.” But their vaccine is in early stages, relies on old technology, and is just one of scores of similar efforts.

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In Move to Slash CDC Budget, House Republicans Target Major HIV Program Trump Launched

By Andy Miller and Sam Whitehead September 8, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Republicans in Congress have proposed substantial cuts to the budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, taking aim at one of former President Donald Trump’s major health programs: a push to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S.

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Elección de Trump y desafíos legales retrasan las inscripciones en el Obamacare

By Julie Appleby December 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Las nuevas inscripciones bajo la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) parecen ser hasta un millón menos que el  número récord del año pasado, especialmente por problemas con el programa que enfrenta la saliente administración Biden.

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Firings at Federal Health Agencies Decimate Offices That Release Public Records

By Rachana Pradhan and Brett Kelman Updated April 7, 2025 Originally Published April 7, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The Department of Health and Human Services’ mass firings included people who fulfill Freedom of Information Act requests for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and FDA, which result in the release of records about government handling of infectious diseases, medical products, and safety problems in health facilities.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Courts Try To Curb Health Cuts

February 13, 2025 Podcast

Some of the Trump administration’s dramatic funding and policy shifts are facing major pushback for the first time — not from Congress, but from the courts. Federal judges around the country are attempting to pump the brakes on efforts to freeze government spending, shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, eliminate access to health-related webpages and datasets, and limit grant funding provided by the National Institutes of Health. Meanwhile, Congress is off to a slow start in trying to turn President Donald Trump’s agenda into legislation, although Medicaid is clearly high on the list for potential funding cuts. Shefali Luthra of The 19th, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Call, and Maya Goldman of Axios News join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Mark McClellan, director of the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy and a former health official during the George W. Bush administration, about the impact of cutting funding to research universities.

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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants

By Arthur Allen March 16, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promising field of medical research.

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‘Alternative Facts’ Aren’t a Reason To Skip Vaccines

By Elisabeth Rosenthal August 14, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to defund mRNA research is just the latest to put ideology above public health.

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New Medicaid Federal Work Requirements Mean Less Leeway for States

By Katheryn Houghton and Bram Sable-Smith August 5, 2025 KFF Health News Original

More than a dozen states are seeking their own versions of Medicaid work requirements. But the incoming federal standards pose questions around how much leeway states have to design their rules.

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How Two States Reveal a Deeper Divide on Insuring Kids’ Health

June 20, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Arizona and Florida lawmakers saw trouble ahead for children in 2023, with states slated — as the covid-19 pandemic waned — to resume disenrolling ineligible people from Medicaid. So, legislators in both states voted to expand a safety net known as the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, which covers those 18 and younger in […]

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump 2.0

November 8, 2024 Podcast

As Donald Trump readies for his return to the White House — with the backing of a GOP majority in the Senate and, possibly, the House — the entire health care industry is waiting to see what happens next. Clearly on the agenda: the future of abortion and reproductive rights, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and public health’s infrastructure. Rachel Cohrs Zhang of Stat and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Jackie Fortiér, who reported and wrote the latest KFF Health News-Washington Post “Bill of the Month” feature, about a 2-year-old who had a very expensive run-in with a rattlesnake.

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Can House Republicans Cut $880 Billion Without Slashing Medicaid? It’s Likely Impossible.

By Madison Czopek, PolitiFact and Amy Sherman, PolitiFact March 13, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A Republican House resolution, which needs the Senate’s buy-in, directed a committee to propose ways to reduce the deficit by at least $880 billion over a decade. Lawmakers have taken Medicare off the table for cuts, which makes it impossible to reach $880 billion without cutting Medicaid.

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Trump Misplaced Blame When He Said Drug Shortages Were Biden’s Fault

By Michelle Andrews October 6, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Former President Donald Trump, who’s running for another term in the White House, recently blamed drug shortages on his successor, President Joe Biden. Our findings don’t align with Trump’s claims; by some measures, drug shortages increased more on Trump’s watch than on Biden’s.

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Luego de prometer atención médica universal, el gobernador de California debe reconsiderar la cobertura para inmigrantes

By Angela Hart and Christine Mai-Duc May 13, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Gavin Newsom enfrenta otra crisis sanitaria en el estado, que pone en riesgo la cobertura de salud para las personas sin papeles. Expertos opinan sobre las potenciales reducciones.

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