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Health Care Cuts Threaten Homegrown Solutions to Rural Doctor Shortages

By Bernard J. Wolfson September 18, 2025 KFF Health News Original

In a rural, largely Republican region of California, homegrown efforts to bolster the medical workforce face an uphill battle, in part because of federal health care cuts approved by the GOP Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in July, as well as a state budget deficit.

Medicaid Payments Barely Keep Hospital Mental Health Units Afloat. Federal Cuts Could Sink Them.

By Tony Leys May 12, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Patients seeking mental health care are more likely to be on Medicaid than patients in more profitable areas of care, such as cancer or cardiac treatment.

As a Diversity Grant Dies, Young Scientists Fear It Will Haunt Their Careers

By Brett Kelman April 29, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The Trump administration defunded the National Institutes of Health’s MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.

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.

‘Impending Intergenerational Crisis’: Americans With Disabilities Lack Long-Term Care Plans

By Sam Whitehead November 11, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Many Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities do not have long-term plans for when family members can no longer care for them. Families, researchers, and advocates worry that has set the stage for a crisis in which people with disabilities could end up living in institutional settings.

If You’re Poor, Fertility Treatment Can Be Out of Reach

By Michelle Andrews February 26, 2024 KFF Health News Original

For low-income people who are on Medicaid or whose employer health plan is skimpy, help for infertility seems unattainable.

What the Health? From KFF Health News: Chaos Continues in Federal Health System

February 6, 2025 Podcast

The Senate has yet to confirm a Health and Human Services secretary, but things around the department continue to change at a breakneck pace to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders. Payment systems have been shut down, webpages and entire datasets have been taken offline, and workers — including those with civil service protections — have been urged to quit or threatened with layoffs. Meanwhile, foreign and trade policy changes are also affecting health policy. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Julie Appleby, who reported the latest “Bill of the Month” feature, about a young woman, a grandfathered health plan, and a $14,000 IUD.

Trump Says He’ll Stop Health Care Fraudsters. Last Time, He Let Them Walk.

By Brett Kelman April 1, 2025 KFF Health News Original

In his first term, President Donald Trump granted pardons or clemency to more than 60 convicted fraudsters, including health care executives who defrauded Medicare out of hundreds of millions of dollars, courts and juries found. Now, Trump says cracking down on fraud is a priority.

Idaho Calls Abortion ‘Barbaric and Gruesome’ in Trial Challenging Strict Ban

By Sarah Varney November 18, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Women with serious pregnancy complications who were denied abortion care have turned to state courts after appeals to state lawmakers to clarify medical exceptions have largely failed.

LGBTQ+ People Relive Old Traumas as They Age on Their Own

By Judith Graham December 24, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The generation that faced discrimination, ostracism, and the AIDS epidemic now faces old age. Many struggle with isolation along with a host of pressing health problems.

Harris’ Emphasis on Maternal Health Care Is Paying Dividends With Black Women Voters

By Stephanie Armour October 2, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Polls are showing renewed support from Black women voters for the Democratic ticket. Vice President Kamala Harris has backed key health priorities for Black women.

Trump’s White House Return Poised To Tangle Health Care Safety Net

By Stephanie Armour November 6, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The new Trump administration is likely to reduce subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance plans and roll back Medicaid coverage. Public health authorities worry that anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be empowered.

At Trump’s GOP Convention, There’s Little To Be Heard on Health Care

By Phil Galewitz July 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Republicans were once the party of Obamacare repeal and abortion opposition. They’ve said little about either issue in Milwaukee.

Trump’s Early Health Moves Signal Intent To Erase Biden’s Legacy. What’s Next Is Unclear.

By Julie Appleby and Stephanie Armour Updated January 23, 2025 Originally Published January 23, 2025 KFF Health News Original

President Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders and other actions on health care soon after reentering office. Other than signaling he intends to reverse many of Joe Biden’s moves, the orders will have little immediate impact.

Federal Cuts Ripple Through a Bioscience Hub in Rural Montana

By Katheryn Houghton Updated May 27, 2025 Originally Published May 27, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, is one of only a few dozen research facilities of its type. The threat of staffing and grant cuts has town leaders worried and has added to long-standing tension around the lab’s presence in this politically conservative region.

Readers and Tweeters Chime In on Disability Rights and Drug Discounts

December 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

KHN gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies

By Arielle Zionts May 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, including a South Dakota hospital that serves small towns, farming communities, and a Native American reservation. Patients there now travel at least an hour to give birth.

As States Mull Medicaid Work Requirements, Two With Experience Scale Back

By Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead February 14, 2025 KFF Health News Original

As Republicans consider adding work requirements to Medicaid, Georgia and Arkansas — two states with experience running such programs — want to scale back the key parts supporters have argued encourage employment and personal responsibility.

What the Health? From KFF Health News: SCOTUS Ruling Strips Power From Federal Health Agencies

June 28, 2024 Podcast

In what will certainly be remembered as a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has overruled a 40-year-old precedent that gave federal agencies, rather than judges, the power to interpret ambiguous laws passed by Congress. Administrative experts say the decision will dramatically change the way key health agencies do business. Also, the court decided not to decide whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care overrides Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Victoria Knight of Axios, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week they think you should read, too.

The US Remains a Grim Leader in Preterm Births. Why? And Can We Fix It?

By Sarah Varney March 16, 2023 KFF Health News Original

American women are more likely to deliver their babies prematurely than women in most developed countries. It’s a distinction that coincides with high rates of maternal and infant death, billions of dollars in costs, and even lifelong disabilities for the children who survive.

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