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‘We’re Not Doing That’: Why a Black Couple Wouldn’t Crowdfund to Pay Off Medical Debts

By Noam N. Levey June 26, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Kristie Fields, a cancer patient in Virginia, was urged to go public to seek financial help. She worried about feeding hurtful stereotypes.

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Tribal Nations Invest Opioid Settlement Funds in Traditional Healing To Treat Addiction

By Aneri Pattani and Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez May 15, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from settlements with companies that made or sold prescription painkillers. Some are investing it in sweat lodges, statistical models, and insurance-billing staffers.

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Luego de enfrentar terribles cuentas médicas, familia decide cruzar la frontera para recibir atención

By Paula Andalo April 27, 2022 KFF Health News Original

La familia Fierro le debe a un hospital de Yuma, Arizona, más de $7,000 por dos situaciones médicas. Así que cuando uno de los hijos se dislocó el hombro, fueron a Mexicali, México. La atención fue rápida, buena y económica.

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Mississippi’s Cervical Cancer Deaths Indicate Broader Health Care Problems

By Virginia Anderson September 5, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Mississippi has among the highest cervical cancer mortality rates in the U.S. When low-income women can’t afford regular preventive care, much less gynecological visits, this highly preventable and treatable cancer becomes a killer.

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Covid Aid Papered Over Colorado Hospital’s Financial Shortcomings

By Markian Hawryluk March 7, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Financial pitfalls at the nation’s highest-elevation hospital serve as a cautionary tale as rural hospitals emerge from the pandemic on shaky ground.

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In Tennessee, a Medicaid Mix-Up Might Land You on a ‘Most Wanted’ List

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio February 22, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Tennessee posts the names and photos of people arrested for alleged Medicaid fraud on a government website and social media. Some people even wind up on a “most wanted” list.

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A California Medical Group Treats Only Homeless Patients — And Makes Money Doing It

By Angela Hart July 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Healthcare in Action, a California medical group that exclusively serves homeless people, has tapped into growing demand and funding for street medicine services. Three years in, the innovative nonprofit is raking in revenue and serving thousands of people who otherwise might flock to the hospital for high-cost care.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump Further Politicizes Science

August 14, 2025 Podcast

President Donald Trump’s latest executive order about science and medicine seeks to take funding decisions out of the hands of career scientists and give them to political appointees instead. And a gunman, reportedly disgruntled over covid vaccines, shoots at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, killing a law enforcement officer. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Aaron Carroll, president and CEO of the health services research group AcademyHealth, about how to restore the public’s trust in public health.

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People of various ages and genders are standing in front of the U.S. Capitol building. Many hold signs that read, "Water Breaks = Basic Right". The female in the front of the line holds a framed photograph.

Texan Activists Thirst for a National Heat Standard to Protect Outdoor Workers

By Colleen DeGuzman July 28, 2023 KFF Health News Original

As much of the U.S. faces extremely high summer temperatures, Texas’ Republican governor, Greg Abbott, has taken steps that effectively eliminate mandated water breaks for construction workers. In response, protesters from the Lone Star State came to Washington, D.C., to press for federal protections for such outdoor workers.

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Mental Health Care by Video Fills Gaps in Rural Nursing Homes

By Tony Leys March 21, 2023 KFF Health News Original

In-person mental health care is hard to arrange in rural nursing homes, so video chats with faraway professionals are filling the gap.

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Paxlovid Has Been Free So Far. Next Year, Sticker Shock Awaits.

By Hannah Recht December 7, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The government soon will stop paying for the covid drug that has proved to be the most effective at keeping patients alive and out of the hospital.

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California’s Covid Misinformation Law Is Entangled in Lawsuits, Conflicting Rulings

By Bernard J. Wolfson March 17, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A state law says giving false information to patients about covid-19 constitutes unprofessional conduct for which regulators can discipline doctors. Vaccine skeptics, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., join civil liberties groups and others in arguing that it violates free speech.

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A portrait of Hannah Russell sitting at her computer desk. One hand is on her computer while her other hand is resting on a book titled, "Special Education Law."

‘I’m Not Safe Here’: Schools Ignore Federal Rules on Restraint and Seclusion

By Fred Clasen-Kelly January 17, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Federal officials have long warned that restraint and seclusion in schools can be dangerous and traumatizing for children, but school districts often fail to report incidents as required by law.

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The Drug Company That Prospered Without Creating Any Drugs

By Arthur Allen April 13, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Horizon Therapeutics, which Amgen is acquiring for about $28 billion, grew large by snapping up cheap drugs from other companies, marketing them to perfection, and jacking up prices.

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Covered California to Cut Patient Costs After Democratic Lawmakers Win Funding From Gov. Newsom

By Angela Hart July 27, 2023 KFF Health News Original

California’s health insurance exchange will reduce how much some patients pay for care next year, including hospital deductibles, appointment copays, and prescription drugs. Lawmakers pressed Gov. Gavin Newsom to make good on a four-year-old pledge to use proceeds from a tax penalty on uninsured people to help people pay for treatment.

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For Republican Candidates, Talk About Moms and Babies Is a Thorny Issue

By Emmarie Huetteman November 4, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The abortion issue looms large over the midterm elections, and some in the Republican Party, long associated with efforts to restrict access, are looking to reassure voters they have women’s health in mind.

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Legal Questions, Inquiries Intensify Around Noble Health’s Rural Missouri Hospital Closures

By Sarah Jane Tribble March 23, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A year after private equity-backed Noble Health shuttered two rural Missouri hospitals, a slew of lawsuits and state and federal investigations grind forward. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey recently confirmed an “ongoing” investigation as former employees continue to go unpaid and cope with unpaid medical claims.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Another Try for Mental Health ‘Parity’

July 27, 2023 Podcast

President Joe Biden is kicking off his reelection campaign in part by trying to finish a decades-long effort to establish parity in insurance benefits between mental and physical health. Meanwhile, House Republicans are working to add abortion and other contentious amendments to must-pass spending bills. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Anna Edney of Bloomberg, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News’ chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner, to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Céline Gounder about her podcast “Epidemic.” The new season focuses on the successful public health effort to eradicate smallpox.

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Three vials of different covid-19 vaccines, from left to right: Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech.

Four Years After Shelter-in-Place, Covid-19 Misinformation Persists

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, PolitiFact April 1, 2024 KFF Health News Original

False claims that covid vaccines cause deaths and other diseases are still prevalent despite multiple studies showing the vaccines are safe and saved lives.

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California Governor and Democratic Lawmakers at Odds Over Billions in Health Care Funds

By Angela Hart May 30, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Gov. Gavin Newsom is getting pressure from his political allies to begin spending money on health care that the state raised by fining Californians who go without health insurance. But Newsom says the state can’t afford to.

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