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The National Suicide Hotline For LGBTQ+ Youth Shut Down. States Are Scrambling To Help.

By Annie Sciacca August 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

LGBTQ+ youth lost dedicated support on the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in July at a critical time. Advocates say mental health issues are rising in that population amid hostility from the Trump administration.

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Bill Cassidy sits behind the dais in a Senate hearing room. He is speaking while holding both his glasses and a pencil in his left hand.

This Doctor-Senator Who Backed RFK Jr. Now Faces a Fight for His Job — And His Legacy

By Amanda Seitz March 6, 2026 KFF Health News Original

A year after Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, warily cast the vote ensuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ascension to Health and Human Services secretary, his life’s work — in medicine and in politics — is unraveling.

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Congressional Stalemate Creates Chaos for Obamacare Shoppers

By Michelle Andrews November 4, 2025 KFF Health News Original

This year, Affordable Care Act marketplace consumers will need to be more informed than ever to navigate their health coverage choices.

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Drawn-Out Overhaul of Troubled Montana Hospital Leaves Lawmakers in Limbo

By Mara Silvers, Montana Free Press January 31, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Unsure how to help the troubled psychiatric facility, legislators look to shore up other parts of the state’s mental health system.

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California Legislators Debate Froot Loops and Free Condoms

By Don Thompson April 23, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California state lawmakers this year are continuing their progressive tilt on health policy, debating bills banning an ingredient in Froot Loops and offering free condoms for high schoolers.

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Better Treatments Buoy Multiple-Myeloma Patients, Bound by Research Cuts and Racial Disparities

By Melba Newsome October 31, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Although racial disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of multiple myeloma remain, Black survivors of multiple myeloma say the latest developments in treatment give them hope even as federal research cuts create a grim forecast for cancer research.

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Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act Darkens Outlook for Government-Backed Clinics

By Phil Galewitz April 1, 2026 KFF Health News Original

About 17,000 federally funded health clinics stand to collectively lose $32 billion under GOP-backed fiscal policies in the next five years — just as more uninsured patients will rely on them for low-cost care.

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Covid and Medicare Payments Spark Remote Patient Monitoring Boom

By Phil Galewitz and Holly K. Hacker March 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Demand for help monitoring patients’ vital signs remotely has taken off since a Medicare change in 2019. Dozens of companies now push the service to help overburdened primary care doctors — and as a revenue stream. But some policy experts say its growth has outpaced oversight and evidence of effectiveness.

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Patients Suffer When Indian Health Service Doesn’t Pay for Outside Care

By Arielle Zionts and Katheryn Houghton September 5, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The Indian Health Service has a program that can pay for outside appointments when patients need care not offered at agency-funded sites. Critics say money shortages, complex rules, and administrative fumbles often block access, however.

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A drawing of a man in black and white covering his face with his hands. Behind him is a glowing red computer screen with windows. On the top left, the window shows Elon Musk with a chainsaw. The center window tells the man his employment has been terminated. The window on the bottom right shows a fork. The last window on the bottom left reads, "Employee of the Year 2024."

‘I Am Going Through Hell’: Job Loss, Mental Health, and the Fate of Federal Workers

By Rachana Pradhan and Aneri Pattani Illustration by Oona Zenda March 26, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Since the Trump administration began firing federal workers, they say they feel overwhelmed, have obtained or considered seeking psychiatric care and medication, and are anxious about paying their bills. And soon, their health insurance will run out.

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Florida Allows Doctors To Perform C-Sections Outside of Hospitals

By Phil Galewitz May 28, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A Florida law was enacted this spring making the Sunshine State the first in the nation to let cesarean sections be performed in settings other than hospitals — leading to warnings about increased risks for pregnant women and their babies.

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Trump Team Claims Successes Against ACA Fraud While Pushing for More Controls

By Julie Appleby March 27, 2026 KFF Health News Original

A sweeping set of regulations issued in February includes Trump administration proposals to curb what Obamacare critics contend are fraud incentives.

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An Arm and a Leg: Why ‘The Pitt’ Is Our Fave New Drama

By Dan Weissmann May 5, 2025 Podcast

An emergency room doctor says what the TV show “The Pitt” gets right about hospitals, including why they’re so crowded and the bills so high.

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States Jostle Over $50B Rural Health Fund as Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Trigger Scramble

By Sarah Jane Tribble October 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

States are battling for their piece of $50 billion in federal rural health funding, but it’s not just hospitals vying for the money. Tech startups and policy demands are raising the stakes as Medicaid cuts loom.

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California Bill Would Require State Review of Private Equity Deals in Health Care

By Bernard J. Wolfson August 13, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Proposed legislation would require the state attorney general’s consent for a wide range of private equity acquisitions in health care. The hospital lobby negotiated an exemption for for-profit hospitals.

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GOP Promotes MAHA Agenda in Bid To Avert Midterm Losses. Dems Point to Contradictions.

By Stephanie Armour January 20, 2026 KFF Health News Original

As fractures emerge in the Make America Great Again movement, some Republicans see its health-focused “MAHA” counterpart as the party’s next big thing. But doubts abound.

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Medi-Cal’s Dental Care Gap: Getting a Tooth Pulled Is Easy — Much Harder To Get an Implant

By Molly Castle Work August 9, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California is among a growing number of states that offer dental benefits to low-income residents, but some lawmakers want the state to go further by covering more cleanings and costlier implants. Dentists and health experts worry the approach doesn’t address the root of the problem: Many providers don’t accept Medicaid.

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More Mobile Clinics Are Bringing Long-Acting Birth Control to Rural Areas

By Arielle Zionts October 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Small-town doctors may not offer IUDs and hormonal implants because the devices require training to administer and are expensive to stock.

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How Much Will That Surgery Cost? 🤷 Hospital Prices Remain Largely Unhelpful.

By Daniel Chang April 2, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Health care price transparency is one of the few bipartisan issues in Washington, D.C. But much of the information that hospitals and health plans have made available to the public is not helpful to patients, and there’s no conclusive evidence yet that it’s lowering costs or increasing competition.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: House GOP Plan Targets Medicaid

February 27, 2025 Podcast

The House passed a budget plan that likely would result in major cuts to the Medicaid program. But the plan now faces a battle in the Senate, where even Republicans seem reluctant to dramatically reduce a health program that covers roughly 1 in 5 Americans. Meanwhile, federal judges and the Trump administration continue to differ over whether the administration has the authority to unilaterally cancel programs approved and funded by Congress and to fire federal workers. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Victoria Knight of Axios join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.

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