Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act Darkens Outlook for Government-Backed Clinics
Bluestem Health, a clinic that serves low-income and uninsured patients in Lincoln, Nebraska, has lost money for the last two years. And CEO Brad Meyer...
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Readers Sound Off on NIH Staff Cuts, Work Requirements, and More
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. ‘The...
Trump’s Hunt for Undocumented Medicaid Enrollees Yields Few Violators
Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Last August, as part of the federal government’s crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states...
States Pay Deloitte, Others Millions To Comply With Trump Law To Cut Medicaid Rolls
Samantha Liss and Rachana Pradhan States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One...
Inside the High-Stakes Corporate Fight Over Feeding Preterm Babies
In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the...
She Owed Her Insurer a Nickel, So It Canceled Her Coverage
Last summer, Lorena Alvarado Hill received a series of unexpected medical bills. A teacher’s aide in Melbourne, Florida, Hill is a single mom who works...
How the Trump Administration Uses Migrant Kids To Find and Detain Family Members
The Trump administration is using migrant children held by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement to lure parents and relatives...
Give and Take: Federal Rural Health Funding Could Trigger Service Cuts
BIG SANDY, Mont. — The emergency department at Big Sandy Medical Center is one room with a single curtain between two beds. It’s one of...
Trump Team Claims Successes Against ACA Fraud While Pushing for More Controls
Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Complaints about enrollment fraud in Affordable Care Act health insurance coverage have bedeviled the federal marketplace for years. Now, the...
A Headless CDC – KFF Health News
The Host The Trump administration this week missed a deadline to nominate a new director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Without a...