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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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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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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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Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos

By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Hannah Norman August 11, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Young adults without jobs that provide insurance find their options are limited and expensive. The problem is about to get worse.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Trump Called Digital Equity Act ‘Racist.’ Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone.

By Sarah Jane Tribble October 10, 2025 KFF Health News Original

President Donald Trump called the Digital Equity Act unconstitutional, racist, and illegal. Then the $2.75 billion program for rural and underserved communities to gain internet access disappeared.

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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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Breaking Down Why Medicare Part D Premiums Are Likely To Go Up

By Julie Appleby August 15, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Insurers will take drug costs, frequency of use, and other factors into account as they set premium amounts for the 2026 plan year.

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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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After Chiding Democrats on Transgender Politics, Newsom Vetoes a Key Health Measure

By Christine Mai-Duc October 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have expanded access to hormone therapy, a top priority for the trans community. Advocates say it would have ensured continuity in gender-affirming care amid Trump administration attacks. Analysts say it’s another sign of the Democrat’s move to the center.

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Trump Team’s Reworking Delays Billions in Broadband Build-Out

By Sarah Jane Tribble Updated June 20, 2025 Originally Published June 20, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A Trump administration reworking of a $42 billion broadband expansion program will trigger delays as millions of rural Americans wait for promised connections and the telehealth services they bring.

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Sent Home To Heal, Patients Avoid Wait for Rehab Home Beds

By Felice J. Freyer Updated March 12, 2025 Originally Published March 12, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Many patients ready to leave the hospital end up lingering for days or weeks — occupying beds that others need and driving up costs — because of a lack of open spots at nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities. A few health systems are addressing this problem by moving post-acute rehab into the home.

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Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts

By Sarah Jane Tribble and Holly K. Hacker Data visualizations by Lydia Zuraw May 14, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Taxpayers — through federal infrastructure programs — have paid billions of dollars to internet companies to hook up rural Americans. Some communities have nothing to show for it, leaving medically vulnerable rural patients disconnected and without access to telehealth.

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California’s $12 Billion Medicaid Makeover Banks on Nonprofits’ Buy-In

By Angela Hart May 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

California’s Medicaid program is relying heavily on community groups to deliver new social services to vulnerable patients, such as security deposits for homeless people and air purifiers for asthma patients. But many of these nonprofits face staffing and billing challenges and haven’t been able to deliver services effectively.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: A Very Good Night for Abortion Rights Backers

November 9, 2023 Podcast

Abortion rights backers won major victories in at least five states in the 2023 off-year elections Nov. 7, proving the staying power of abortion as a political issue in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Meanwhile, the National Institutes of Health finally has a new director, after Democrats temporarily blocked President Joe Biden’s nominee over a mostly unrelated fight about prescription drug prices. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Tami Luhby of CNN, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Julie Appleby, who reported and wrote the latest “Bill of the Month” feature.

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