Midterm Voters Split on Abortion and Trans Healthcare Ballot Questions
ST. LOUIS — Voters’ sweeping support of Democratic candidates in Tuesday’s midterm election didn’t translate…
ST. LOUIS — Voters’ sweeping support of Democratic candidates in Tuesday’s midterm election didn’t translate into similarly clear outcomes for ballot initiatives on abortion access and transgender issues. In Missouri, a state that President Donald Trump carried by an 18-point margin in 2024, voters rejected a proposal to ban both abortion and gender-affirming healthcare for…
Federal leaders overseeing a $50 billion rural health fund missed a critical deadline to announce how much they’ll give states next year, alerting state leaders to the delay with a mass email. A 12-sentence message from Alina Czekai, director of the federal Office of Rural Health Transformation, said officials “discovered an additional administrative process requirement.”…
The KFF Health News Minute is available every Thursday via direct download or the RSS feed. Nov. 5 Zach Dyer [DYE-er] reads the week’s news: Hospital units treating critically ill kids are disappearing. Plus, many Americans say they’re feeling priced out of healthcare. Your browser does not support the audio element. Can’t see the audio player?…
By HANA KAHLEOVA Tuesday is World Osteoporosis Day, and one number deserves more attention than it gets: one in two women over 50 will break a bone because of osteoporosis. Bone loss speeds up as estrogen falls during menopause. Yet in the rush to treat midlife weight gain with the newest drugs, bones rarely come…
This dashboard provides KFF’s analysis of the role abortion played in voters’ decisions in the 2026 midterm elections, with a focus on four states with abortion-related ballot measures: Idaho, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia. It examines support for each of the measures across groups, including additional questions in Missouri, where voters were asked to weigh in…
This dashboard focuses on KFF’s analysis of the role health care costs and other health policy issues played in voters’ decisions in the 2026 midterm elections, including in key Senate races. It examines the role of rising health costs on voters’ decisions, views on the Trump administration’s health care policies, and opinions on the government’s…
CVS Health plans to split into two companies by 2028, but experts say the move may not resolve conflicts of interest between its insurance and PBM businesses. The post CVS Health Bids Goodbye to Vertical Integration But Not Conflict of Interest appeared first on MedCity News.
The care provider teams at Oak Street Health and Signify Health will remain with a $320 billion company centered around Aetna and the Caremark PBM. Executives hope to complete the separation by the middle of 2028.
Acute kidney injury is a common and sometimes serious surgical complication. Researchers at New York’s Mount Sinai health system are building AI models to better predict who’s most at risk, so that healthcare providers can offer individualized, preventive care. The post Researchers Receive $4M NIH Grant to Build AI Model To Prevent Kidney Injury appeared…
By JOHN SAMARAS Noom Med prices a GLP-1 plan at $249 a month. The last two words on the line matter. “$129 To get started. $249/mo after the first 4-week supply (billed quarterly).” That’s Noom’s pricing page on November 3, 2026. If a quarterly charge covers three months at $249, it comes to $747. In…