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In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of US Uninsured

By Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead June 30, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Fewer Americans will likely have health insurance, compromising their physical and financial health, as the Trump administration and GOP-controlled Congress weigh major changes to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid. “The effects could be catastrophic,” one policy analyst predicts.

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Kids and Teens Go Full Throttle for E-Bikes as Federal Oversight Stalls

By Kate Ruder Updated December 3, 2025 Originally Published November 24, 2025 KFF Health News Original

States, counties, and schools step in to improve safety amid an uptick in e-bike injuries, while federal regulatory efforts stagnate.

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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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Nursing Homes and the AMA, Once Medicaid Defenders, Hang Back as GOP Mulls Big Cuts

By Noam N. Levey March 11, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The American Medical Association and the leading nursing home trade group both are lobbying Republicans in Congress on other priorities.

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The CDC Just Sidelined These Childhood Vaccines. Here’s What They Prevent.

By Arthur Allen and Jackie Fortiér January 6, 2026 KFF Health News Original

The CDC is recommending fewer childhood vaccines, although the ones it has jettisoned from the recommended schedule have successfully battled serious illness for years. Experts warn that if vaccine uptake falls, millions could be hospitalized — or worse — as a result of preventable diseases.

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‘Sick to My Stomach’: Trump Distorts Facts on Autism, Tylenol, and Vaccines, Scientists Say

By Amy Maxmen September 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The White House’s autism announcement exaggerates links to Tylenol, misleads on vaccines, and sets back the field by ignoring decades of research, scientists say.

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Listen to the Latest ‘KFF Health News Minute’

January 6, 2026 KFF Health News Original

The “KFF Health News Minute” brings original health care and health policy reporting from our newsroom to the airwaves each week.

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Why Brittle Bones Aren’t Just a Woman’s Problem

By Paula Span October 14, 2025 KFF Health News Original

More men are now living long enough to develop osteoporosis. But few are aware of the risk, and fewer still are screened and treated.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Starting To Feel the Shutdown’s Bite

October 9, 2025 Podcast

The government shutdown continues with no end in sight, and while it theoretically should not affect entitlement programs, the lapse of some related authorizations — like for Medicare telehealth programs — is leaving some doctors and patients high and dry. Meanwhile, the FDA quietly approved a new generic abortion pill. Sarah Karlin-Smith of Pink Sheet, Tami Luhby of CNN, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss those stories and more. Also, Rovner interviews Sarah Grusin of the National Health Law Program.

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Readers Offer ‘Solo Agers’ Support and Reflect on Ancestors

December 20, 2024 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

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As Trump Denies Climate Change, At Least 170 Hospitals Face Major Flood Risk

By Brett Kelman October 10, 2025 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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States Begin Tapping Medicaid Dollars to Combat Gun Violence

By Samantha Young January 5, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The Biden administration is allowing states to use money from the insurance program for low-income and disabled residents to pay for gun violence prevention. California and six other states have approved such spending, with more expected to follow.

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Disability Rights Groups Sue to Overturn California’s Physician-Assisted Death Law

By Don Thompson April 25, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Disability rights advocates and two individuals with disabilities sued Tuesday to overturn the state’s physician-assisted death law, arguing it is unconstitutional, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, and makes it too easy for people with terminal diseases whose deaths aren’t imminent to kill themselves with a doctor’s help.

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Home Improvements Can Help People Age Independently. But Medicare Seldom Picks Up the Bill.

By Joanne Kenen March 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A small program celebrated by its proponents helps people modify their homes and safely live independently as they age. But most insurers won’t pay for it, including Medicare.

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Exclusive: Social Security Chief Vows to Fix ‘Cruel-Hearted’ Overpayment Clawbacks

By Fred Clasen-Kelly March 13, 2024 KFF Health News Original

New Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley is promising to change how the agency reclaims billions of dollars it wrongly pays to beneficiaries, saying the existing process is “cruel-hearted and mindless.”

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Trump’s DOJ Accuses Medicare Advantage Insurers of Paying ‘Kickbacks’ to Brokers

By Julie Appleby May 23, 2025 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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Mandatory Reporting Laws Meant To Protect Children Get Another Look

By Kristin Jones April 25, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The state is looking at ways to weed out false reporting of child abuse and neglect as the number of reports reaches a record high.

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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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The Nation’s Largest Food Aid Program Is About To See Cuts. Here’s What You Should Know.

By Katheryn Houghton and Samantha Liss and Renuka Rayasam October 31, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The federal government is making sweeping changes to SNAP, the program that helped feed about 42 million people in the U.S. last year. Here’s a breakdown of the changes to come and potential impacts.

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Health Care Groups Aim To Counter Growing ‘National Scandal’ of Elder Homelessness

By Felice J. Freyer August 18, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing homes as homelessness grows.

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