Special thanks to Joe Paduda to bringing back the best review of health wonkery on the web. Joe writes: Way back in the day Julie Ferguson and I came up with the idea of working with other health care bloggers to publish the best of each every couple of weeks…after a decade-long run we suspended it…
The Trump administration’s overhaul of the nation’s largest food assistance program will cause millions of people to lose benefits, strain state budgets, and pressure the nation’s food supply chain, all while likely hindering the goals of the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform, according to researchers and former federal officials. Permanent changes to the Supplemental…
Saturday is the day that nearly 24 million customers can start purchasing health plans on healthcare.gov and the state-run Obamacare exchanges. Higher prices and uncertainty await many of those shoppers. Average premiums are expected to more than double. The directors who manage marketplace enrollment in states including Maryland, California, Pennsylvania, and Idaho told me and my colleague Julie Appleby that people are wondering how they’ll scrape together hundreds — or even thousands — of dollars more next year to pay for these…
Nearly 100 health care-themed haikus crept into our inbox this Halloween. See the winning poems and top runners-up from KFF Health News’ seventh annual Halloween haiku contest, illustrated by Oona Zenda. The judges’ favorites were inspired by tick migration, Medicaid work requirements, and rising copays. Follow KFF Health News’ social media accounts (X, Instagram, and…
VENICE, Fla. — MAGA and MAHA are happily married in Florida, and nowhere more at home than in Sarasota County, where on a humid October night a crowd of several hundred gathered to honor state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, his wife, and an unlicensed Canadian radiologist who treats cancer with horse paste. The event, titled…
For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination. Her primary care physician had ruled out diabetes before finally chalking up her ailments to getting older. But months of intense back pain eventually landed her in the…
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A…
En los últimos meses, agentes federales han acampado en el vestíbulo de un hospital del sur de California, custodiado a pacientes detenidos —algunos de ellos esposados— en habitaciones de hospital y perseguido a un jardinero inmigrante hasta dentro de un centro quirúrgico. Agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) también se han…
In recent months, federal agents have camped out in the lobby of a Southern California hospital, guarded detained patients — sometimes shackled — in hospital rooms, and chased an immigrant landscaper into a surgical center. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have also shown up at community clinics. Health providers say that officers have tried…
In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month’s end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many uninsured or on Medicaid. “People don’t realize how much these clinics hold together the local health system until they’re gone,” said George Hill, the group’s…