Despite Their Successes, Some Mobile Crisis Response Teams Are in Crisis
It was a snowy afternoon in Bozeman, a city of nearly 60,000 nestled among the mountains of southern Montana. Temperatures hovered in the mid-30s. The...
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Lawmakers, Health Groups Resist Their States’ Rural Health Fund Plans
In the final days of 2025, governors around the country trumpeted the hundreds of millions of federal dollars they won from a new, $50 billion...
Readers Lean On Congress To Solve Crises in Research and Rehab
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. We...
Federal Aid for Lead Cleanup Is Receding. That’s a Problem for Cash-Strapped Cities.
Halle Parker, Verite News Tighter regulations and an influx of federal money in recent years have helped communities across the U.S. initiate efforts to clean...
Families Defend Disability Services Amid Medicaid Cuts
Families of Idahoans with disabilities say their lives could be upended as lawmakers in the state’s Republican-dominated legislature mull sweeping cuts. Services at risk include...
Medicaid Is Paying for More Dental Care. GOP Cuts Threaten To Reverse the Trend.
Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Star Quinn moved to Kingsport, Tennessee, in 2023, the same year the state began covering dental costs for about 600,000...
ICE, ALS, Addiction Medicine, and Robotic Ultrasounds: Journalists Sound Off on All That and More
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A Canadian Hospital Scoops Up Nurses Who No Longer Feel Safe in Trump’s America
Last year, as the California hospital where she worked was appeasing the Trump administration by erasing words like “equity” and “diversity” from its paperwork, Brandy...
To Avoid Care Disruptions, Know When the Clock Runs Out on Your Prior Authorization
Sarah Boden and Oona Zenda Ilustrations by Oona Zenda A woman with multiple sclerosis wanted to be able to walk up the stairs at home...
What About the State of Health?
The Host After urging Republicans earlier this year to make health care a central issue in their midterm campaigns, President Donald Trump gave the issue...