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A senior man stands in a hallway with a walker. His reflection is visible, slightly blurred, in a mirror across from him.

These 3 Policy Moves Are Likely To Change Health Care for Older People

By Paula Span January 23, 2026 KFF Health News Original

Two Trump administration regulatory rollbacks affect nursing home staffing and home care workers, and a new AI experiment in Medicare has alarmed eldercare advocates and congressional Democrats.

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The Ranks of Obamacare ‘Fixers’ Axed in Trump’s Reduction of Health Agency Workforce

By Julie Appleby April 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

These fixers, officially known as caseworkers, unraveled complex and arcane health insurance rules to solve people’s coverage issues. They worked in a little-known federal department with which most consumers never interact — until they need help.

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A Ticking Clock: How States Are Preparing for a Last-Minute Obamacare Deal

By Amanda Seitz and Julie Appleby October 28, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Even if Congress strikes a deal soon to extend more generous Affordable Care Act subsidies, the prices and types of ACA plans available could change dramatically. Unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval could cloud this year’s open enrollment season, which begins in most states on Saturday.

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A photo of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. receiving a tour of a food distribution center. Shelves behind him show crates filled with orange bell peppers.

Meet the Florida Group Chipping Away at Public Benefits One State at a Time

By Katheryn Houghton and Samantha Liss May 8, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform has boosted the agenda of a conservative think tank that’s been working for more than a decade to reshape the nation’s public assistance programs.

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Federal Cuts Gut Food Banks as They Face Record Demand

By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez May 1, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Food banks nationwide are being pinched by record demand, high food prices, and hundreds of millions of dollars in federal budget cuts. As the economy plods onto shaky ground, food bank leaders hope Congress patches the holes by passing a new farm bill.

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Watch: Fired CDC Chief Says RFK Jr. Demanded She Roll Back Vaccine Policies Without Evidence

By Arthur Allen and Hannah Norman September 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Susan Monarez and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief medical officer Debra Houry described turmoil in an agency dominated by anti-vaccine political officials nominated by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Farmers, Barbers, and GOP Lawmakers Grapple With the Fate of ACA Tax Credits

By Amanda Seitz November 6, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Small-business owners and their employees, who make up nearly half of the Obamacare marketplace, are worried about their health care and their livelihoods as insurance prices surge. Republicans, who have long opposed Obamacare, are at odds over how to respond to upset from one of their party’s most loyal constituencies.

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An Arm and a Leg: Charity-Care Nonprofit Scales Up and Doubles Down

By Dan Weissmann January 26, 2026 Podcast

“An Arm and a Leg” host Dan Weissmann talks with the founder of the charity-care nonprofit Dollar For about how it helped eliminate $55 million in medical bills last year.

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Journalists Delve Into Vaccine Mandates and Surprise Billing

June 11, 2022 KFF Health News Original

KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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An Insurer Agreed To Cover Her Surgery. A Politician’s Nudge Got the Bills Paid.

By Cara Anthony August 26, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A kindergartner in Missouri needed eye surgery. Her insurer granted approval for her to see a specialist nearby, yet her parents were confused when they still owed more than $13,000. Then her uncle, a former state senator, reached out to a colleague who contacted the hospital and the insurer.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Health Spending Is Moving in Congress

January 22, 2026 Podcast

Lawmakers appear on the brink of passing a spending bill for the Department of Health and Human Services and a bipartisan health policy bill delayed for over a year. But the outlook is bleaker for the health care outline released by President Trump last week. Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, Sheryl Gay Stolberg of The New York Times, and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss those stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews oncologist and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel to discuss his new book, “Eat Your Ice Cream.”

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In a Broken Mental Health System, a Tiny Jail Cell Becomes an Institution of Last Resort

By Katheryn Houghton April 29, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Like local jails nationwide, Montana’s small holding facilities have become institutions of last resort as patients in mental health crisis stall in backlogs, waiting for beds at the state-run mental hospital.

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Cuts to Food Benefits Stand in the Way of RFK Jr.’s Goals for a Healthier National Diet

By Renuka Rayasam July 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The Trump administration has said improving American nutrition is a priority, but deep cuts to federal food assistance could lead people to forgo healthy food in favor of cheaper alternatives.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Washington’s Slow Churn

June 2, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Stemming gun violence is back on the legislative agenda following three mass shootings in less than a month, but it’s hard to predict success when so many previous efforts have failed. Meanwhile, lawmakers must soon decide if they will extend current premium subsidies for those buying health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and the Biden administration acts, belatedly, on Medicare premiums. Margot Sanger-Katz of the New York Times, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Rachel Cohrs of Stat News join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KHN’s Michelle Andrews, who reported and wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” episode about a too-common problem: denial of no-cost preventive care for a colonoscopy under the Affordable Care Act.

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Students eat chicken sandwiches, french fries, and Lunchables at a North Carolina middle school.

States Target Ultraprocessed Foods in Bipartisan Push

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett September 29, 2025 KFF Health News Original

States are taking aim at chemicals and additives in foods as Republicans and Democrats alike embrace at least one aspect of the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” push. It’s a shift for Republicans, who had vilified past Democratic efforts to impose government will on what people eat and drink.

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Newsom Tries To Thread Needle on Immigrant Health as Ambitions Turn National

By Christine Mai-Duc February 6, 2026 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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Iowa Medicaid Sends $4M Bills to Two Families Grieving Deaths of Loved Ones With Disabilities

By Tony Leys February 18, 2025 KFF Health News Original

States are required to claw back health care costs from the estates of many Medicaid recipients. Some, including Iowa, are particularly aggressive in their pursuit.

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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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Health Savings Accounts, Backed by GOP, Cover Fancy Saunas but Not Insurance Premiums

By Amanda Seitz December 5, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Health savings accounts can be used to cover medical expenses, tax-free. But while wealthier Americans are using them to pay for gym equipment, cedar ice baths, and hemlock saunas, poorer Americans can’t use them to pay their skyrocketing health insurance premiums.

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Refugees Will Be Among the First To Lose Food Stamps Under Federal Changes

By Renuka Rayasam October 30, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Under the budget law that Republicans call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, food assistance for refugees will be sliced. The change is sowing fear, uncertainty, and a struggle for survival — a sign of what’s to come for millions of Americans.

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