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First Edition: Monday, Dec. 22, 2025

December 22, 2025 Morning Briefing

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

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Medicaid Health Plans Step Up Outreach Efforts Ahead of GOP Changes

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett December 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Even as President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers say the One Big Beautiful Bill Act targets waste, fraud, and abuse, Medicaid health plans are hosting events across the U.S. to prevent low-income families from losing health insurance and food benefits next year.

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Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons

By Sarah Jane Tribble and Doug Livingston, The Marshall Project - Cleveland December 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

There has been a steep rise in the share of people with severe mental illnesses being sent to state psychiatric hospitals on court orders after being accused of serious crimes. The shift has all but halted patients’ ability to get care before they have a catastrophic crisis.

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Baltimore Drove Down Gun Deaths. Now Trump Has Slashed Funding for That Work.

By Renuka Rayasam December 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A spike in shootings during the covid pandemic propelled community violence intervention, a field that aims to stop gun deaths at the root. Baltimore used federal funds to launch a violence prevention office. But President Donald Trump has throttled such funds and instead is sending troops into cities.

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Journalists Zero In on ‘Certificate of Need’ Laws and Turbulent Obamacare Enrollment Season

December 20, 2025 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on regional media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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State Exchange Directors Seeing Consumers’ Fears — In Real Time — About Obamacare Premium Hikes

By Julie Appleby December 19, 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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Wildfire Fighters Who Develop Cancer Eligible For One-Time $450,000 Payout

December 19, 2025 Morning Briefing

The law signed by President Trump on Thursday also provides college tuition for their family if they die or become debilitated from a smoke-related cancer. Plus: The “warrior dividend” announced for troops will be paid out of the military housing stipend already approved by Congress.

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California Hospital To Shutter Pediatric Unit, Creating Care Desert For Kids

December 19, 2025 Morning Briefing

Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital will stop admitting patients on March 27. Other health industry news is about remote patient monitoring, no deal in the Virtua Health-ChristianaCare merger, a nursing home bankruptcy, and more.

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Minnesota Fraud Inquiry Extends To 14 Medicaid-Funded Social Programs

December 19, 2025 Morning Briefing

Previously, federal prosecutors had been looking into only three safety net programs run by state agencies. Other news comes from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Iowa, Wyoming, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania.

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Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed

December 19, 2025 Morning Briefing

Each week, KFF Health News finds longer stories for you to enjoy. Today’s selections are on bioethics, surrogacy, football helmets, obesity, and California’s CARE Court.

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Viewpoints: Public Health Is Broken — Here’s How to Fix It; Self-Testing For Cervical Cancer Empowers Women

December 19, 2025 Morning Briefing

Editorial writers discuss these public health issues.

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With Cannabis Reclassification, CBD Will Be Covered For Medicare Patients

December 19, 2025 Morning Briefing

President Donald Trump’s executive order effectively speeds up the process to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III substance, a move that opens up access to Americans who want it and for researchers studying its medical use. Marijuana is still illegal under federal law.

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CMS’ Attempt To Strip Hospital Funds Over Trans Care Could Take A While

December 19, 2025 Morning Briefing

On Thursday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services unveiled two rules to withhold federal funds from facilities that provide gender-affirming care for trans minors, but the public will have 60 days to comment on the proposals. With a large number of comments expected, it could take months or even a year to finalize the rules, one attorney told STAT.

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ACA Subsidies, Funding Bill Punted To Next Year As Congress Takes A Break

December 19, 2025 Morning Briefing

The enhanced tax credits that millions of Americans rely on to pay for health insurance on the Obamacare marketplace will expire Dec. 31, meaning premiums could soar. When Congress meets again, it’ll have mere weeks to pass funding legislation to avoid another government shutdown.

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Morning Briefing for Friday, December 19, 2025

December 19, 2025 Morning Briefing

First Edition: Friday, Dec. 19, 2025

December 19, 2025 Morning Briefing

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

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Inside the FDA’s Vaccine Uproar

By Céline Gounder December 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

An internal email claiming covid vaccines killed children triggered a formal response from a dozen past FDA commissioners. The email, sent by the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, outlines a framework that could have significant impact on the nation’s vaccine policies.

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Las armas promovidas para la seguridad personal provocan una crisis de salud pública en comunidades negras

By Fred Clasen-Kelly and Daniel Chang December 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Las verificaciones de antecedentes para comprar armas aumentaron 60% de 2019 a 2020, año en que el gobierno federal declaró la emergencia sanitaria por covid.
Ese mismo año, más de 45.000 personas murieron por violencia con armas de fuego.

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States Advance Medical Debt Protections as Federal Support Turns to Opposition

By Rae Ellen Bichell December 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Federal officials reversed their stance on medical debt credit reporting, then came a lawsuit in Colorado. As lawmakers in other states forge ahead with attempts to protect consumers from medical debt, some are reconsidering how they go about it.

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Guns Marketed for Personal Safety Fuel Public Health Crisis in Black Communities

By Fred Clasen-Kelly and Daniel Chang December 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

During the covid pandemic, gun marketers told many Americans they needed firearms to defend against criminals and protesters. Then firearm deaths mounted rapidly in racially segregated and low-income neighborhoods, according to federal data.

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