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What the Health? From KFF Health News: The Senate Saves PEPFAR Funding — For Now

July 17, 2025 Podcast

The Senate narrowly approved the Trump administration’s request to claw back about $9 billion for foreign aid and public broadcasting but refused to cut funding for the international AIDS/HIV program PEPFAR. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court ruled that West Virginia can ban the abortion pill mifepristone, which could allow states to block other FDA-approved drugs. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.

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Trump Wants Americans To Make More Babies. Critics Say His Policies Won’t Help Raise Them.

By Stephanie Armour and Amanda Seitz December 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The administration’s embrace of the pronatalist movement often doesn’t include support for programs traditionally associated with the health and well-being of women, children, and families.

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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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An Arm and a Leg: New Lessons in the Fight for Charity Care

By Dan Weissmann December 5, 2024 Podcast

Host Dan Weissmann checks back in on the fight for hospital charity care, with lessons from Dollar For and a savvy listener.

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Senators Press Deloitte, Other Contractors on Errors in Medicaid Eligibility Systems

By Rachana Pradhan and Samantha Liss October 10, 2025 KFF Health News Original

As contractors position themselves to cash in on a gush of new business managing Medicaid work requirements, a cadre of senators has launched an inquiry into the companies paid billions to build eligibility systems.

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States Brace for Reversal of Obamacare Coverage Gains Under Trump’s Budget Bill

By Julie Appleby July 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

States that run their own health insurance marketplaces fear an end to automatic Obamacare reenrollment under the tax and spending megabill would have an outsize effect on their policyholders.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: The GOP Still Can’t Agree on a Health Plan

December 4, 2025 Podcast

Senate Democrats were promised a vote by mid-December on extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, but Republicans still can’t decide whether they want to put forward their own alternative or what that might include. Meanwhile, the CDC and FDA are roiled by debates over vaccines. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss those stories and more. Also, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Aneri Pattani about her project tracking opioid settlement payments.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Underinsured Is the New Uninsured

September 14, 2023 Podcast

The percentage of working-age adults with health insurance went up and the uninsured rate dropped last year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported this week. There isn’t much suspense about which way the uninsured rate is now trending, as states continue efforts to strip ineligible beneficiaries from their Medicaid rolls. But is the focus on the uninsured obscuring the struggles of the underinsured? Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico join KFF Health News’ Emmarie Huetteman to discuss these issues and more.

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How North Carolina Made Its Hospitals Do Something About Medical Debt

By Noam N. Levey and Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer Illustration by Oona Zenda September 23, 2024 KFF Health News Original

State officials threatened to withhold public money from hospitals, pioneering a strategy that could become a national model.

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After Shutdown, Federal Employees Face New Uncertainty: Affording Health Insurance

By Phil Galewitz November 26, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Average premium payments in the federal government’s insurance program for its employees are set to jump more than 12% next year, on top of a 13.5% hike in 2025. The two-year increase is higher than many private employers and their workers are experiencing.

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California Continues Progressive Policies, With Restraint, in Divisive Election Year

By Don Thompson October 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

This legislative cycle, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills affirming reproductive rights and mandating insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization, but the Democrat was reluctant to impose new regulations and frequently cited costs for vetoing bills.

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End of Pandemic Internet Subsidies Threatens a Health Care Lifeline for Rural America

By Sarah Jane Tribble June 5, 2024 KFF Health News Original

As the Affordable Connectivity Program runs out of money, millions of people face a jump in internet costs or lost connections if federal lawmakers don’t pass a funding extension.

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At Catholic Hospitals, a Mission of Charity Runs Up Against High Care Costs for Patients

By Rachana Pradhan September 12, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Many Catholic health systems, which are tax-exempt, pay their executives millions and can charge some of the highest prices around — while critics say they scrimp on commitments to their communities.

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MRNA Vaccines, Once a Trump Boast, Now Face Attacks From Some in GOP

By Stephanie Armour March 10, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Republicans have proposed legislation in several states to ban the pioneering technology used in covid shots. Many doctors worry a huge medical advance could be rolled back.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: RFK Jr. Upends Vaccine Policy, After Promising He Wouldn’t

June 12, 2025 Podcast

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week did something he had promised not to do: He fired every member of the scientific advisory committee that recommends which vaccines should be given to whom. And he replaced them, in some cases, with vaccine skeptics. Meanwhile, hundreds of employees of the National Institutes of Health sent an open letter to the agency’s director, accusing the Trump administration of policies that “undermine the NIH mission.” Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.

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How Minnesota Figures Into the Presidential Politics of Insulin Prices

By Bram Sable-Smith October 1, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Minnesota led the way on insulin affordability, culminating in 2020 when Gov. Tim Walz signed a law going further to cut costs than other state laws. Now, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are vying for support from people with diabetes.

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An Arm and a Leg: Personal Finance Guru Faces Down an Insurance Denial

By Dan Weissmann February 19, 2026 Podcast

Ron Lieber, the “Your Money” columnist for The New York Times, shares ideas about how insurance companies, doctors, and patients can better handle prior authorization denials.

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Indiana Hospitals Pull Merger Application After Pushback Over Monopoly Concerns

By Samantha Liss November 26, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Two Indiana hospital rivals withdrew their application to merge after facing pushback from the Federal Trade Commission and the public.

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A Call for Comfort Brought the Police Instead. Now the Solution Is in Danger.

By Samantha Liss Illustration by Oona Zenda April 16, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Emotionally overwhelmed, an Indiana woman dialed a mental health hotline. She didn’t find the help she was looking for and hung up. Ultimately, she was handcuffed and hospitalized overnight. Now, amid federal cuts, she and others fear the U.S. response to similar crises will revert to more responses like that.

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NICU Bill Installment Plan: That’ll Be $45,843 a Month for 12 Months, Please

By Victoria Knight December 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

After baby Dorian Bennett arrived two months early and spent more than 50 days in the neonatal ICU, his parents received a bill of more than $550,000 — despite having insurance. The Florida hospital had a not-so-helpful suggestion: monthly payments of more than $45,000 for a year.

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