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A photo of a doctor's appointment. A doctor reads off notes from a clipboard as a patient on the exam table listens.

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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California Pays People With Addiction To Stay Clean — With Feds’ Blessing

By Angela Hart May 22, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Led by California, a few states are testing an experimental program that pays people to stop using hard drugs. The Golden State was the first to win approval from the Biden administration to cover the sobriety payments, with Medicaid wrapping it into an ambitious health-care initiative spearheaded by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to provide the […]

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How the Mixed Messaging of Vaccine Skeptics Sows Seeds of Doubt

By Darius Tahir June 8, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Some GOP members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic have two-stepped around vaccine skepticism, proclaiming themselves to be pro-vaccine while also validating the beliefs of people who oppose vaccine mandates. The result could have serious public health consequences.

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Rural Americans Are Way More Likely To Die Young. Why?

By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez April 15, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Three words are commonly repeated to describe rural America and its residents: older, sicker and poorer. Obviously, there’s a lot more going on in the nation’s towns than that tired stereotype suggests. But a new report from the Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service gives credence to the “sicker” part of the trope. Rural Americans ages […]

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Public health workers, doctors, and nurses protest outside a New York City hospital, holding signs. A doctor, wearing a face mask and white coat, is photographed in the center of a crowd. He holds a sign that reads, "If we works ick, you get sick. #PPENOW"

Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission

By Amy Maxmen March 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Four years since the covid pandemic emerged, health care workers want rules that protect them during outbreaks. They worry the CDC is repeating past mistakes as it develops a crucial set of guidelines for hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, and other facilities that provide health care.

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A State-Sanctioned Hospital Monopoly Raises Concerns

By Brett Kelman and Samantha Liss March 28, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The Federal Trade Commission has long argued that competition makes the economy better. But some states have stopped the agency from blocking hospital mergers that create local or regional monopolies, and the results have been messy. Two dozen states have at some point passed controversial legislation waiving anti-monopoly laws, allowing rival hospitals to merge and replacing competition […]

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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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Tennessee Tries To Rein In Ballad’s Hospital Monopoly After Years of Problems

By Brett Kelman September 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system with the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly, serves patients in Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina.

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How Fringe Anti-Science Views Infiltrated Mainstream Politics — And What It Means in 2024

By Amy Maxmen January 29, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Opposition to vaccines and other public health measures backed by science has become politically charged. That makes dangerous misinformation much harder to fight.

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‘Emergency’ or Not, Covid Is Still Killing People. Here’s What Doctors Advise to Stay Safe.

By Amy Maxmen January 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Thousands of people are still dying of covid, but government has mostly handed over responsibility to the people to weather the seasonal surges with their own strategies.

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Nursing Homes Fell Behind on Vaccinating Patients for Covid

By Sarah Boden December 4, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Last winter, only 4 in 10 nursing home residents got an updated covid vaccine. The low uptake leaves a fragile population vulnerable. Some industry watchdogs say it could be a sign of eroding trust between nursing home residents and providers.

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California Fails to Adequately Help Blind and Deaf Prisoners, US Judge Rules

By Don Thompson April 12, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Thirty years after prisoners with disabilities sued and 25 years after a federal court first ordered accommodations, a judge found that California prison and parole officials still are not doing enough to help deaf and blind prisoners — in part because they are not providing readily available technology such as video recordings and laptop computers.

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Community Health Workers Spread Across the US, Even in Rural Areas

By Arielle Zionts November 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Community health workers are increasingly common in rural areas, where they help patients overcome barriers to accessing care and staying healthy.

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Halfway Through ‘Unwinding,’ Medicaid Enrollment Is Down About 10 Million

By Phil Galewitz February 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

We’re halfway through the Medicaid “unwinding,” in which states are dropping people from the government health insurance program for the first time since the pandemic began. Millions of people have been dumped from the rolls since April, often for procedural issues like failing to respond to notices or return paperwork. But at the same time, […]

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Utah Survey Shows Why So Many People Were Dumped From Medicaid

By Phil Galewitz January 3, 2024 KFF Health News Original

It’s one of the biggest mysteries in health policy: What happened to millions of Americans kicked out of Medicaid last year? A survey conducted for state officials in Utah, obtained by KFF Health News, holds some clues. Like many states, Utah terminated Medicaid coverage for a large share of enrollees whose eligibility was reevaluated in […]

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Colorado Moves to Connect Agricultural Workers With Mental Health Resources

By Vignesh Ramachandran February 7, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Advocates say two bills under consideration could help migrant communities but that more needs to be done.

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (left) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma (right) sit at a table facing the camera while they sign papers. Nine other individuals in business attire stand in a row behind them. Everyone is wearing face masks.

Georgia’s Work Requirement Slows Processing of Applications for Medicaid, Food Stamps

By Andy Miller and Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead December 5, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Georgia’s ability to process applications for Medicaid and other public benefits has lagged since the launch of Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s “Pathways” Medicaid work requirement, leaving Georgia with persistently slow Medicaid application processing times.

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The Covid ‘Contrarians’ Are in Power. We Still Haven’t Hashed Out Whether They Were Right.

By Arthur Allen February 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Jay Bhattacharya, nominated to lead the National Institutes of Health, opposed most covid mandates. Without an honest public debate about what worked and what didn’t, public health experts say, we’re even less prepared for the next pandemic.

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Recortes en servicios de idiomas generan temor a errores médicos, diagnósticos equivocados y muertes

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

Cerca de 69 millones de personas en el país hablan un idioma que no es inglés, y 26 millones de ellas hablan inglés, pero no con fluidez.

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Halfway Through ‘Unwinding,’ Medicaid Enrollment Is Down About 10 Million

By Phil Galewitz February 7, 2024 KFF Health News Original

While more Medicaid beneficiaries have been purged in the span of a year than ever before, enrollment is on track to settle at pre-pandemic levels.

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