States Eye Aid To Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid Cuts
LOS ANGELES — At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care, and overflow...
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Rovner Recaps Medicaid Cuts’ Impact on Hospitals and Fields Caller Questions on Affordability
KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed Medicaid cuts on WAMU’s 1A on April 7. She also discussed health care affordability on The...
GOP Mulls More Health Cuts
The Host Recent polling finds that health costs are a top worry for much of the American public, while Republicans in Congress are considering still...
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...
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...
Demoralized CDC Workforce Reels From Year of Firings, Funding Cuts, and a Shooting
On the coffee table at her home in Atlanta, Sarah Boim has a pile of documents from her old job at the Centers for Disease...
Reckoning With State and Federal Cuts, Los Angeles Safety-Net Clinics Push for a New Tax
LOS ANGELES — Mia Angulo, who is pregnant and due in May, is living in a tent with her boyfriend in the predominantly Latino neighborhood...
More Kids Are in ERs for Tooth Pain. Trump Cuts and RFK Jr.’s Anti-Fluoride Fight Aren’t Helping.
Eight-year-old Jonah woke up one May morning with a swollen face and a toothache. He refused the pain medication that his mom, Geneva Reynolds, tried...
Trump’s Cuts to Medicaid Threaten Services That Help Disabled People Live at Home
OTTUMWA, Iowa — Leisa and Kent Walker recently received a disturbing notice: The private company managing their son’s Medicaid coverage intends to cut nearly 40%...
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...