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Health Clinic Workers Brush Up on Constitutional Protections as Immigration Raids Loom

By Jackie Fortiér February 26, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Clinic administrators describe anxiety about President Donald Trump’s move to allow immigration arrests inside health centers.

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For-Profit Companies Open Psychiatric Hospitals in Areas Clamoring for Care

By Tony Leys April 1, 2024 KFF Health News Original

State institutions and community hospitals have closed inpatient mental health units, often citing staffing and financial challenges. Now, for-profit companies are opening psychiatric hospitals to fill the void.

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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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House Cats With Bird Flu Could Pose a Risk to Public Health

By Sarah Boden February 10, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The current strain of bird flu is spreading from wildlife and livestock to house cats. To keep pets healthy, many virologists and veterinarians say, house cats shouldn’t eat raw food and should be kept indoors. Despite no known cases of H5N1 transmission between cats and people, some public health agencies and virologists are warning cat owners to be mindful of the theoretical risks to the health of humans in their households if a pet gets sick.

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Overdosing on Chemo: A Common Gene Test Could Save Hundreds of Lives Each Year

By Arthur Allen March 26, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The FDA and some oncologists have resisted efforts to require a quick, cheap gene test that could prevent thousands of deaths from a bad reaction to a common cancer drug.

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California’s Health Insurance Marketplace Braces for Chaos as Shutdown Persists

By Bernard J. Wolfson October 14, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Jessica Altman, the head of California’s Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace, warns letters will be sent out this week with sky-high premiums unless Washington extends covid-era enhanced tax credits by then. Even if Congress acts later and rates are lower than feared, she says, shoppers could be scared off.

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Trump Administration Is Ending Multiple HIV Vaccine Studies, Scientists and Officials Say

By Céline Gounder and Alexander Tin, CBS News June 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The cuts will shutter two major HIV vaccine research efforts, and a National Institutes of Health senior official said the agency has been instructed not to issue any more HIV vaccine research funding in the next fiscal year, with few exceptions.

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Whistleblower Accuses Aledade, Largest US Independent Primary Care Network, of Medicare Fraud

By Fred Schulte March 5, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A recently unsealed lawsuit alleges Aledade Inc. developed billing software that boosted revenues by making patients appear sicker than they were.

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Biden Wants States to Ensure Obamacare Plans Cover Enough Doctors and Hospitals

By Julie Appleby December 6, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The regulatory proposal was announced Nov. 15 and is likely one of the last major ACA policy efforts of the president’s first term.

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Readers and Tweeters Urgently Plea for a Proper ‘Role’ Call in the ER

February 27, 2023 KFF Health News Original

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

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Millions of Dollars Flow From Pharma to Patient Advocacy Groups

By Rachana Pradhan December 15, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Pharma money is all over the place — in universities, companies doing continuing medical education for doctors and in prominent patient advocacy organizations that are household names across America. Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy nonprofit, reports today that between 2010 and 2022, the drug industry’s main lobbying group and member companies provided at least $6 […]

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Start Shopping: Enrollment Begins Nov. 1 for Most Obamacare Insurance Plans

By Julie Appleby October 31, 2023 KFF Health News Original

More than 16 million Americans who buy their own health insurance through state and federal marketplaces have until Jan. 15 to compare prices, change their coverage, or enroll for the first time.

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California Medicaid Ballot Measure Is Popular, Well Funded — And Perilous, Opponents Warn

By Bernard J. Wolfson September 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Proposition 35, which would use revenue from a tax on managed-care plans to raise the pay of health care providers who serve Medi-Cal patients, has united a broad swath of California’s health care, business, and political establishments. But a newly formed, smaller group of opponents says it will do more harm than good.

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Older Americans Say They Feel Trapped in Medicare Advantage Plans

By Sarah Jane Tribble January 5, 2024 KFF Health News Original

As enrollment in private Medicare Advantage plans grows, so do concerns about how well the insurance works, including from those who say they have become trapped in the private plans as their health declines.

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Congressman Off-Base in Ad Claiming Fauci Shipped Covid to Montana Before the Pandemic

By Katheryn Houghton February 5, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Facts don’t support claims by a likely Republican Senate candidate that a federal research laboratory in Montana infected bats with a coronavirus from China before the covid-19 outbreak.

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Biden Team, UnitedHealth Struggle to Restore Paralyzed Billing Systems After Cyberattack

By Darius Tahir and Bernard J. Wolfson and Daniel Chang March 8, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The cyberattack on a unit of UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division is the worst on the health care industry in U.S. history, hospitals say. Providers struggling to get paid for care say the response by the insurer and the Biden administration has been inadequate.

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The National Suicide Hotline For LGBTQ+ Youth Shut Down. States Are Scrambling To Help.

By Annie Sciacca August 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

LGBTQ+ youth lost dedicated support on the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in July at a critical time. Advocates say mental health issues are rising in that population amid hostility from the Trump administration.

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Pain Doesn’t Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10

By Elisabeth Rosenthal July 2, 2024 KFF Health News Original

A popular scale for measuring pain doesn’t work, but medicine still has no better alternative.

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Out for Blood? For Routine Lab Work, the Hospital Billed Her $2,400

By Rachana Pradhan November 21, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Convenient as it may be, beware of getting your blood drawn at a hospital. The cost could be much higher than at an independent lab, and your insurance might not cover it all.

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Considering a Life Change? Brace for Higher ACA Costs

By Julie Appleby August 12, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Consumers contemplating an early retirement or starting a business should calculate how Trump administration and congressional policy changes could increase their health insurance costs — and plan accordingly.

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