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An Arm and a Leg: How To Pick Health Insurance — In the Worst Year Ever

By Dan Weissmann December 15, 2025 Podcast

As millions face skyrocketing health insurance premiums, the “An Arm and a Leg” team navigates their own limited options.

Under Trump, Social Security Resumes What It Once Called ‘Clawback Cruelty’

By David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group March 11, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Last year, the government stopped cutting off people’s monthly Social Security benefits to claw back overpayments. Last week, under President Donald Trump, it reversed that change.

Track Opioid Settlement Payouts — To the Cent — In Your Community

By Aneri Pattani and Lydia Zuraw and Holly K. Hacker April 2, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Want to know how much opioid settlement money your city, county, or state has received so far? Or how much it’s expecting in the future? Use our new searchable database to find out.

Oregon Senator Proposes Criminal Charges and Fines for Rogue Obamacare Agents

By Julie Appleby July 24, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden introduced legislation intended to curb a growing problem in which consumers, without their consent, are enrolled in Affordable Care Act plans or their coverage is switched.

At Some Federal Beaches, Surf’s Up but the Lifeguard Chair’s Empty

By Stephanie Armour June 26, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Some of the nation’s most well-known beaches are managed by the National Park Service, which saw about 1,000 employees laid off in February by the quasi-agency Department of Government Efficiency, then led by Elon Musk. The void has become a serious public health and safety concern.

Hospitals Fighting Measles Confront a Challenge: Few Doctors Have Seen It Before

By Andrew Jones February 24, 2026 KFF Health News Original

As the number of cases grows to about 1,000 in the Carolinas, health care workers who’ve never seen the vaccine-preventable disease can get caught by surprise.

What the Health? From KFF Health News: Waiting for SCOTUS

May 30, 2024 Podcast

June is when the Supreme Court typically issues rulings in the major cases it hears during that year’s term. This year, those interested in health policy are awaiting decisions in two abortion-related cases and one that could reshuffle the way health policies (and all other federal policies) are made. In this special episode, KFF’s Laurie Sobel, associate director for women’s health policy, joins Julie Rovner for a review of the cases and a preview of how the court might rule.

It’s the ‘Gold Standard’ in Autism Care. Why Are States Reining It In?

By Bram Sable-Smith and Andrew Jones December 23, 2025 KFF Health News Original

States facing yawning budget shortfalls have begun cutting Medicaid reimbursements for a wide variety of services. In some states, dramatic cuts are targeting therapies that many families of autistic people say are essential to caring for their loved ones.

Sticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers

By Julie Appleby Updated December 15, 2025 Originally Published December 12, 2025 KFF Health News Original

With subsidies that give consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums set to expire, lawmakers are again debating the Affordable Care Act. The difference this time: It’s happening in the middle of ACA open enrollment.

After Public Push, CMS Curbs Health Insurance Agents’ Access to Consumer SSNs

By Julie Appleby April 9, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Days after publication of a KFF Health News article about Obamacare enrollees being switched to different plans without their knowledge or consent, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services took steps to tighten insurance agents’ access to private consumer information on the federal marketplace.

Trump Wants Americans To Make More Babies. Critics Say His Policies Won’t Help Raise Them.

By Stephanie Armour and Amanda Seitz December 3, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The administration’s embrace of the pronatalist movement often doesn’t include support for programs traditionally associated with the health and well-being of women, children, and families.

Call Centers Replaced Many Doctors’ Receptionists. Now, AI Is Coming for Call Centers.

By Darius Tahir May 22, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Artificial intelligence products with lifelike voices are being marketed to schedule or cancel medical visits, refill prescriptions, and help triage patients. Soon, many patients might initiate contact with the health system by speaking not with a human but with AI.

Refugees Will Be Among the First To Lose Food Stamps Under Federal Changes

By Renuka Rayasam October 30, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Under the budget law that Republicans call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, food assistance for refugees will be sliced. The change is sowing fear, uncertainty, and a struggle for survival — a sign of what’s to come for millions of Americans.

Abortion Clinics — And Patients — Are on the Move, as State Laws Keep Shifting

By Bram Sable-Smith Illustration by Oona Zenda September 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Clinics in states where most abortions are legal, such as Kansas and Illinois, are reporting an influx of inquiries from patients hundreds of miles away — and are expanding in response. Despite the Supreme Court’s overturning of federal protections in 2022, abortions are now at their highest numbers in a decade.

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy’s HHS

By Stephanie Armour October 16, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Rural Governments Often Fail To Communicate With Residents Who Aren’t Proficient in English

By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez December 10, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Access to information in languages other than English is protected by various federal, state, and local policies. But researchers tracking them say that as rural America grows more diverse, people not proficient in English face added barriers to critical public health information and services.

Ten Doctors on FDA Panel Reviewing Abbott Heart Device Had Financial Ties With Company

By David Hilzenrath and Holly K. Hacker April 8, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Most of the doctors the FDA tapped to advise it on an Abbott medical device had financial ties to the company. The FDA didn’t disclose the payments.

HHS’ Order To Remove Health Websites Was Illegal, Judge Rules

July 8, 2025 Morning Briefing

U.S. District Judge John Bates vacated directives from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Personnel and Management. However, he denied a broader request to prevent HHS from blocking references to gender. The government is “free to say what it wants,” he said, “including about ‘gender ideology.’ But … it must abide by the bounds of authority and the procedures that Congress has prescribed.”

RFK Jr. Personally Told CDC To Change Website On Vaccines And Autism

November 24, 2025 Morning Briefing

The New York Times reported that it is highly unusual for a health secretary to do so. Plus: Tatiana Schlossberg, the cousin of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has revealed she has terminal cancer. She lashed out at her cousin for policy decisions that put her health at risk. Scroll down to our Editorials and Opinions section to read her story.

On Official Website, CDC Now Suggests Vaccines May Cause Autism

November 20, 2025 Morning Briefing

The change of language came Wednesday and includes a pledge to dig deeper into the causes of autism, going so far as to say, “Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.”

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