kffhealthnews.orgadded August 2026
KFF Health Newsby Sarah Jane Tribble, Ali Swenson, The Associated Press and Linley Sanders, The Associated Press15d ago
Economic Frustration Tests Trump’s Standing With Rural Voters, New KFF-AP Poll Finds About half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump...
KFF Health Newsby Paula Span15d ago
The San Vicente de Paúl Nursing Home in the South Bronx hasn’t admitted a patient since December 2024.
KFF Health Newsby Arthur Allen16d ago
Insurance Coverage Lags as Cancer Science, Treatment Move Forward Eighteen months after his initial diagnosis, chemotherapy hadn’t slowed 21-year-old Mason Henderson’s rare brain tumor, which had...
KFF Health Newsby Hayat Norimine16d ago
BOISE, Idaho — Joshua and Ashley Durham run a family medicine practice, and for the first time in their lives, they have no health insurance.
KFF Health Newsby Aneri Pattani17d ago
Paul Nestadt is about as steeped in suicide prevention as a person can be. He treats suicidal patients as a psychiatrist, has co-authored scores of research papers on how and why people kill...
KFF Health Newsby David Hilzenrath20d ago
The Drugs and Devices Have Been on the Market for Years. But FDA-Ordered Studies Still Aren’t Done.
KFF Health Newsby Priyanka Dayal McCluskey, WBUR20d ago
On a weekday morning in a quiet Boston neighborhood, a kitchen bustled with activity. Volunteers sliced chicken breasts, stuffed bell peppers, filled trays, and carefully labeled each item.
KFF Health Newsby Paula Span21d ago
The scenario often unfolds like this: Medical researchers investigate a frequently used drug and report that it’s less effective for older patients than previously thought, or that its risks...
KFF Health Newsby Erin Rode, Capital & Main21d ago
California Eyes Prison Heat Protections That Fall Short of Workplace Standards As Californians have weathered relentless heat waves, state workplace safety regulators have repeatedly reminded...
KFF Health Newsby Sarah Jane Tribble22d ago
States bet big on rural health startups, with a Silicon Valley twist When Josh Fleig, Louisiana’s chief innovation officer, learned his state had set aside $20 million a year, for five years, to...
KFF Health Newsby Katheryn Houghton23d ago
A Cancer Survivor Hoped To Work — Then She Lost Her Medicaid Disability Coverage Taya Hailstone has been in remission from childhood Hodgkin lymphoma for five years.
KFF Health Newsby Briah Lumpkins23d ago
Amber Bates of Cohutta, Georgia, is one of thousands of people without health insurance in the 14th Congressional District, home to about 765,000 people in the northwestern corner of the state.
KFF Health Newsby Claudia Boyd-Barrett24d ago
The little girl stared up at Norma Gómez from the doorway of her neighbor’s apartment, her sad, brown eyes suddenly flashing with hope.
KFF Health Newsby Terry Byrne27d ago
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KFF Health Newsby Ashley Mizuo27d ago
Indigenous Groups Are Exempt From Medicaid Work Rules, but Native Hawaiians Aren’t WAIANAE, Hawai‘i — Native Hawaiians will need to comply with new work requirements to qualify for Medicaid after...
KFF Health Newsby Paula Span28d ago
For several years, Nicole Straight and Patricia Wood, who lived across the street from each other in Sausalito, California, were more neighbors than friends, exchanging sociable greetings and...
KFF Health Newsby Olivia Aldridge, KUT29d ago
Nonprofits Are Helping Musicians Pay for Insurance in Austin, Texas, and Beyond AUSTIN, Texas — Musician Zack Morgan jokes that when he lost his corporate job in 2015, it was like being pushed off...
KFF Health Newsby Noam N. Levey29d ago
A NY Hospital Tried To Close Its Birthing Center. This City United To Fight Back. TROY, N.Y. — Like many residents of this aging industrial city on the Hudson River, Starletta Washington was...
KFF Health Newsby Amanda Seitz, Maia Rosenfeld and Darius Tahir8 Sept 2026
Democrats Demand Trump Administration Halt Collection of Patients’ ER Records A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it...
KFF Health Newsby Christine Mai-Duc8 Sept 2026
‘It’s Triage’: California’s Next Governor Will Face Destabilizing Surge in Uninsured By the time Democrat Xavier Becerra left Washington, D.C., more Americans than ever had health insurance, owing...
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