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Morning Briefing for Wednesday, October 29, 2025

October 29, 2025 Morning Briefing

First Edition: Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025

October 29, 2025 Morning Briefing

Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.

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So Your Insurance Dropped Your Doctor. Now What?

By Bram Sable-Smith Illustrations by Oona Zenda October 29, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Patients sometimes find themselves scrambling for affordable care when a contract dispute causes a hospital — and most of the doctors and other clinicians who work there — to be dropped from an insurance network. Here are six things to know if that happens to you.

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Doctor Tripped Up by $64K Bill for Ankle Surgery and Hospital Stay

By Julie Appleby October 29, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A doctor in Colorado became the patient after an accident totaled her car and sent her to the operating room. The hospital kept her overnight, but her insurer stopped paying after she left the emergency room.

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Médicos, callados mientras Florida busca terminar con décadas de mandatos de vacunación infantil

By Arthur Allen October 28, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Sin embargo, si las tasas de vacunación bajan, aumentan los casos de enfermedades como sarampión, hepatitis, meningitis y neumonía e incluso podrían regresar enfermedades como la difteria y la poliomielitis.

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Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers’ Credit Scores From Medical Debt

By Noam N. Levey Updated October 30, 2025 Originally Published October 28, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Reversing guidance from the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau concludes that states cannot bar medical debt from their residents’ credit reports.

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Stillbirths In US Occur Far More Often Than Previously Reported, Study Finds

October 28, 2025 Morning Briefing

Researchers found that between 2016 and 2022, there was one stillbirth for every 147 births, The Washington Post reported. Worse yet, a significant number of them happened without warning in pregnancies that did not show any previously identified risks.

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GLP-1 Drugs Have Rapidly Lowered American Obesity Rates, Survey Shows

October 28, 2025 Morning Briefing

According to the Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index, the U.S. obesity rate fell from 39.9% in 2022 to 37% in 2025. Plus: Women may need less exercise than men to improve heart health.

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Viewpoints: Fast-Tracking Leucovorin Sets Unsettling Precedent; Debt Pushes Med Students Away From Primary Care

October 28, 2025 Morning Briefing

Opinion writers discuss these public health topics.

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In Pivot, Federal Workers’ Union Calls For Immediate End To Shutdown

October 28, 2025 Morning Briefing

The president of the American Federation of Government Employees suggested that negotiations over Democrats’ health care demands should continue only after the government is reopened. Separately, news outlets cover the Obamacare price hikes headed for residents in New Jersey, Illinois, Arizona, and Colorado.

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As States Prep To Sue Over Food Aid, Some In GOP Seek Separate SNAP Vote

October 28, 2025 Morning Briefing

Democrat-led states are petitioning for the government to tap an emergency fund to keep food aid flowing amid the shutdown — after the Trump administration said it would not do that. Meanwhile, a Texas grocer has a plan to help families in need; Connecticut issues emergency relief; and more.

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Mental Health Grants For Schools Must Be Restored, Judge Rules

October 28, 2025 Morning Briefing

The Trump administration had canceled the grants, claiming they were not awarded based on merit. The judge said the states made a case for real harm from the cuts to the grants meant to help with a shortage of mental health workers in schools. Also, more than 1 million people show suicidal intent each week while talking to chatbots.

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Cigna Will Scrub Drug Rebate Models From Some Plans Starting In 2027

October 28, 2025 Morning Briefing

As Bloomberg explains, pharmaceutical companies pay the rebates in order to get favorable placement on pharmacy benefit managers’ lists of covered drugs, a practice some have likened to kickbacks. All of Cigna’s Evernorth customers will have access to upfront discounts starting in 2028.

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Morning Briefing for Tuesday, October 28, 2025

October 28, 2025 Morning Briefing

First Edition: Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025

October 28, 2025 Morning Briefing

Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.

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An Arm and a Leg: A Listener’s DIY Project Helps Others Deal With High Medical Bills

By Dan Weissmann October 28, 2025 Podcast

A medical student’s DIY project brings “An Arm and a Leg” listeners together with new tools to fight medical debt.

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Many Fear Federal Loan Caps Will Deter Aspiring Doctors and Worsen MD Shortage

By Bernard J. Wolfson October 28, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Health care professionals fear that new caps on federal student lending, set to start in July, will put medical school out of reach for many who want to become doctors and exacerbate physician shortages. Others say unlimited federal lending has fed a rise in academic costs, saddling families and, ultimately, taxpayers with debt.

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A Ticking Clock: How States Are Preparing for a Last-Minute Obamacare Deal

By Amanda Seitz and Julie Appleby October 28, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Even if Congress strikes a deal soon to extend more generous Affordable Care Act subsidies, the prices and types of ACA plans available could change dramatically. Unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval could cloud this year’s open enrollment season, which begins in most states on Saturday.

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A pesar de la confusión, las vacunas deberían estar al alcance de todos en esta temporada de tos y resfríos

By Michelle Andrews October 27, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Para quienes tienen en su agenda de otoño vacunarse contra enfermedades respiratorias —covid, gripe y, para algunas personas, virus respiratorio sincitial (VRS) — este año puede resultar sorprendentemente normal.

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Frente al auge de las apuestas deportivas, estados buscan frenar la adicción al juego

By Karen Brown, New England Public Media October 27, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Algunos estados han establecido límites similares para frenar la ludopatía, pero otros tienen muy pocos.

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