Journalists Talk Southern Health Care: HIV Drug Access, Medicaid Expansion, Vaccination Rates
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KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances ..read more
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Sights, Sounds Trigger Trauma for Super Bowl Parade Shooting Survivors
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by Bram Sable-Smith
3d ago
Survivors and witnesses of gun violence often freeze emotionally at first, as a coping mechanism. As the one-year mark since the parade shooting nears, the last installment in our series “The Injured” looks at how some survivors talk about resilience, while others are desperately trying to hang on ..read more
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Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate
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by Amy Maxmen
3d ago
Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn ..read more
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A Dose of Love: The Winning Health Policy Valentines
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3d ago
KFF Health News shares our favorite reader-submitted health policy valentines. One struck us in the heart and inspired an original cartoon ..read more
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As States Mull Medicaid Work Requirements, Two Scale Theirs Back
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by Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead
3d ago
As Republicans consider adding work requirements to Medicaid, Georgia and Arkansas — two states with experience running such programs — want to scale back the key parts supporters have argued encourage employment and personal responsibility ..read more
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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Courts Try To Curb Health Cuts
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4d ago
Some of the Trump administration’s dramatic funding and policy shifts are facing major pushback for the first time — not from Congress, but from the courts. Federal judges around the country are attempting to pump the brakes on efforts to freeze government spending, shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, eliminate access to health-related webpages and datasets, and limit grant funding provided by the National Institutes of Health. Meanwhile, Congress is off to a slow start in trying to turn President Donald Trump’s agenda into legislation, although Medicaid is clearly high on ..read more
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Montana Looks To Regulate Prior Authorization as Patients, Providers Decry Obstacles to Care
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by Mike Dennison
4d ago
Patients and providers say health insurers’ preapproval requirements lead to delays and denials of needed medical treatments. Insurers argue that prior authorization keeps costs down ..read more
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Top California Democrats Clash Over How To Rein In Drug Industry Middlemen
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by Christine Mai-Duc
4d ago
Frustrated by spiraling drug costs, California lawmakers want to increase oversight of pharmaceutical industry intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers. It’s unclear whether they can persuade Gov. Gavin Newsom to get on board ..read more
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Republican States Claim Zero Abortions. A Red-State Doctor Calls That ‘Ludicrous.’
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by Sarah Varney, KFF Health News
4d ago
In several red states, officials say few or no abortions happened in 2023, raising alarm among researchers about the politicization of vital statistics ..read more
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Un año después del tiroteo en el desfile del Super Bowl, los sobrevivientes suman confusión al trauma
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by Bram Sable-Smith and Peggy Lowe, KCUR
4d ago
Un año después del tiroteo del 14 de febrero que mató a una persona e hirió al menos a 24, los sobrevivientes y sus familias todavía tratan de rehacer sus vidas ..read more
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