{"id":9286,"date":"2025-10-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:00:00","slug":"a-bite-a-bill-and-a-bureaucratic-chill-in-winning-halloween-haikus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=9286","title":{"rendered":"A Bite, a Bill, and a Bureaucratic Chill in Winning Halloween Haikus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 health care-themed haikus crept into our inbox this Halloween. See the winning poems and top runners-up from KFF Health News\u2019 seventh annual Halloween haiku contest, illustrated by Oona Zenda. <\/p>\n<p>The judges\u2019 favorites were inspired by tick migration, Medicaid work requirements, and rising copays. <\/p>\n<p>Follow KFF Health News\u2019 social media accounts (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KFFHealthNews\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KFFHealthNews\/\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KFFHealthNews\/\">Facebook<\/a>) for more of our favorites. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>1st Place<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Checkups turn to fright.Copays rise like witching flames.My wallet screams \u201cBoo!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Arnav Shah<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>2nd Place<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>No rest after death.Even the ghosts must work nowTo get benefits.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Kristen Hayashi<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>3rd Place<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Questing legs, and teethHitching rides on their blood-brides,All ticks and no treat!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <em>Carrie Moores<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While Halloween may be coming to an end, KFF Health News reporting continues year-round.\u00a0<strong>Send us your haikus<\/strong>\u00a0at any time for possible inclusion in our Morning Briefing:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/contact-haiku\/\">https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/contact-haiku\/<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2024 Halloween Haiku Contest Winners<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>2023 Halloween Haiku Contest Winners<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>2022 Halloween Haiku Contest Winners<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/florida-the-hollow-ladapo-vaccines-medical-freedom-conspiracy-theories\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 health care-themed haikus crept into our inbox this Halloween. See the winning poems and top runners-up from KFF Health News\u2019 seventh annual Halloween haiku contest, illustrated by Oona Zenda. The judges\u2019 favorites were inspired by tick migration, Medicaid work requirements, and rising copays. Follow KFF Health News\u2019 social media accounts (X, Instagram, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}