Category: Health Fitness

Trump administration officials, looking at the possible impact of large insurance premium increases for millions of next year’s Obamacare customers, read more

Kate Ruder When Judith Miller had routine blood work done in July, she got a phone alert the same day read more

Jackie Fortiér A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert read more

Cuando Judith Miller se hizo un análisis de sangre rutinario en julio, recibió una alerta en su teléfono ese mismo read more

New moms all over social media are breaking down their incredibly expensive hospital bills after giving birth. So why is read more

Amy Frank said it took 17 hours on the phone over nearly three weeks, bouncing between her insurer and her read more

Lauren Sausser When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn’t pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to read more

It was March 2020, and Robert Gordon was about to kick some 80,000 people off health insurance. As the Michigan read more

After losing 50 pounds on the injectable weight loss medication Zepbound, Kyra Wensley received a surprising letter from her pharmacy read more

LISTEN: Carrot or the stick? Some nutritionists say incentives are the best way to improve the diets of low-income Americans read more

It makes sense to approach some marketing efforts with skepticism. Scams, deepfakes, and deceptive social media posts are common, with read more

The Trump administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from read more

Amy Frank dijo que pasó 17 horas al teléfono durante casi tres semanas, rebotando entre su aseguradora y el sistema read more

John McGing couldn’t reach a human. That might be business-as-usual in this economy, but it wasn’t business; he had called read more

Henry Larweh and Rachana Pradhan and Rae Ellen Bichell The Trump administration’s cuts to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention read more

Preocupados por la inflación, los estadounidenses han estado atentos a precios de productos cotidianos como los huevos y la gasolina. read more

UnitedHealth Group’s multibillion-dollar pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, is suing five Kentucky counties in an attempt to force them out read more

En el Valle de San Luis, al sur de Colorado, las nubes se elevan sobre las imponentes montañas de la read more

BOGALUSA, La. — Less than a mile from a century-old mill that sustained generations in this small town north of read more

Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to read more

In southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley, clouds billow above the towering mountains of the Sangre de Cristo range. A chorus read more

Se suponía que iba a ser más fácil. Cuando la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) se read more

Elisabeth Rosenthal and Hannah Norman, KFF Health News Amid the challenges of adulthood, one rite of passage is unique to read more

It was supposed to be easier than this. When the Affordable Care Act was passed in March 2010, the goal read more

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers whose jobs have been reinstated after dizzying Trump administration disruptions say they remain read more

As the federal government reworks rules for a $42 billion broadband expansion program, millions of Americans live in places where read more

National Institutes of Health workers provide interventional radiology services to a patient at the NIH Clinical Center in 2008. (National read more

Una larga lista de familiares paternos de Lynda Hollander padecían enfermedades cardíacas y varios habían tenido cirugías importantes. Por eso, read more

Michelle Andrews Si quieres vacunarte contra covid-19 este otoño, ¿lo cubrirá el seguro médico de tu empleador? No hay una read more

If you want a covid-19 shot this fall, will your employer’s health insurance plan pay for it? There’s no clear read more

Vanessa G. Sánchez A Fortina Hernández la llaman “la que lo sabe todo”. Durante más de dos décadas, esta trabajadora read more

Paula Span A long list of Lynda Hollander’s paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So read more

A new breed of cosmetic surgery chains, some backed by private equity investors, are competing for a slice of the read more

Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News and Henry Larweh A little-known federal agency that sends more than $12 billion annually read more

A few days after a harrowing cosmetic surgery procedure, Erin Schaeffer said, she woke up with fluid leaking from an read more

MISSOULA, Mont. — As congressional Republicans finalized Medicaid work requirements in President Donald Trump’s budget bill, one man who relies read more

La terapia de rehabilitación puede ser una bendición después de una hospitalización por un derrame cerebral, una caída, un accidente, read more

A last-minute scramble to add a $50 billion rural health program to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law read more

Darius Tahir One of the world’s biggest genetic databases comprises DNA data donated over the years by more than a read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host read more

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Most of the 24 million people in Affordable Care Act health plans face a potential read more

Rehabilitation therapy can be a godsend after hospitalization for a stroke, a fall, an accident, a joint replacement, a severe read more

On his way to an Ultimate Fighting Championship event, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stopped by read more

Lauren Sausser and Katheryn Houghton As a postpartum doula, Dawn Oliver does her best work in the middle of the read more

By Caresse Jackman, InvestigateTV and Jamie Grey, InvestigateTV July 10, 2025 Article HTML Caresse Jackman, InvestigateTV and Jamie Grey, InvestigateTV read more

Nicole Silva’s 4-year-old daughter was headed to a relative’s house near the southern Colorado town of La Jara when a read more

In Connecticut, construction workers in the Local 478 union who complete addiction treatment are connected with a recovery coach who read more

The Trump administration has declared that it will aggressively combat chronic disease in America. Yet in its feverish purge of read more

El “One Big Beautiful Bill” del presidente Donald Trump recorta el gasto federal en los mercados de Medicaid y la read more

Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News and Julie Appleby, KFF Health News and Renuka Rayasam and Bernard J. Wolfson President Donald read more

The Trump administration has launched investigations into health care organizations in an effort to allow providers to refuse care for read more

As fired and retired scientists rallied outside in the Atlanta heat, an advisory panel that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. handpicked read more

Paula Span Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she read more

Amy Maxmen GREENVILLE, Miss. — Cedric Sturdevant woke up with “a bit of depression” but made it to church, as read more

Within an hour of receiving a covid vaccination in November 2020, Utah preschool teacher Brianne Dressen felt pins and needles read more

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ read more

Bernard J. Wolfson Republican efforts to restrict taxes on hospitals, health plans, and other providers that states use to help read more

Kim Beckham, agente de seguros en Victoria, Texas, había visto a sus amigos sufrir tanto por la culebrilla (shingles) que read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host read more

Jariel Arvin On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the read more

Decenas de expertos en VIH de los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) recibieron correos electrónicos el read more

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, read more

Amy Maxmen Dozens of HIV experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received emails on Wednesday revoking notices read more

Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health — the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world read more

Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity read more

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Major changes could be in store for the more than 24 million people with health read more

Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. The room, decorated read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After decades of unsuccessful efforts to improve California prison conditions ruled unconstitutional and blamed for record-high suicides, read more

The Trump administration’s cancellation of $766 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against potential pandemic flu viruses is the read more

JoEllen Zembruski-Ruple, while in the care of New York City’s renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, swallowed the first three read more

A principios de este año, cuando el presidente Donald Trump comenzaba a remodelar el gobierno, Michael, un médico de emergencias read more

Despite years of patient complaints and quality-of-care concerns, Ballad Health — the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly — will now read more

Stephanie Armour The Trump administration’s anti-regulatory approach and cost-cutting moves risk unraveling a critical system of checks and balances that read more

Earlier this year, as President Donald Trump was beginning to reshape the American government, Michael, an emergency room doctor who read more

Vanessa G. Sánchez and Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez SAN FRANCISCO — Health nonprofits and medical interpreters warn that federal cuts have read more

SAN FRANCISCO, California — Organizaciones de salud sin fines de lucro e intérpretes médicos advierten que los recortes federales han read more

At one call center in the Philippines, workers help Americans with diabetes or neurological conditions troubleshoot devices that monitor their read more

CHARLESTON, S.C. — When Page Campbell’s doctor recommended she try an injectable prescription drug called Wegovy to lose weight before read more

It’s a marvel of food technology: ice cream that resists melting. In a video explaining the science behind it, a read more

Health care has proved a vulnerable target for the firehose of cuts and policy changes President Donald Trump ordered in read more

WINNER, Dakota del Sur — Sophie Hofeldt tenía previsto hacerse los controles de embarazo y dar a luz en el read more

Arielle Zionts WINNER, S.D. — Sophie Hofeldt planned to receive prenatal care and give birth at her local hospital, 10 read more

In the dim basement of a Salt Lake City pharmacy, hundreds of amber-colored plastic pill bottles sit stacked in rows, read more

More Californians are talking to their therapists through a video screen or by phone than in person, marking a profound read more

OAK FLAT, Ariz. — Carrying eagle feathers and chanting prayers, Western Apache runners hit the road on a roughly 80-mile read more

On the eastern plains of Colorado, in a county of less than 6,000 people, Lincoln Health runs the only hospital read more

Cuando una mujer se desplomó en una escalera mecánica en el aeropuerto de Buffalo, en Nueva York, el pasado junio, read more

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead read more

El principal organismo no partidario de control gubernamental del país ha confirmado que está examinando los costos de operar el read more

The Trump administration’s unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts, read more

The FDA has rehired at least some workers tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities, two read more

The country’s top nonpartisan government watchdog has confirmed it is examining the costs of running the nation’s only active Medicaid read more

Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent read more

Aneri Pattani Cuando la administración Trump recortó a finales de marzo más de $11.000 millones en fondos estatales destinados a read more

When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo, New York, airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to read more

For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health system, whose 52 read more

When the Trump administration cut more than $11 billion in covid-era funds to states in late March, addiction recovery programs read more

Hospitals have spent years amassing political influence at the federal and state levels. According to the nonprofit OpenSecrets, hospitals and read more

Kristen Schorsch, WBEZ Chicago He’s 17 and lives in the Chicago suburbs. He loves theater and recently helped direct a read more

Mike Dennison HELENA, Mont. — As Republican legislative leaders in Montana girded for this year’s battle over whether to extend read more

They’re the fixers, the ones who step in when Affordable Care Act enrollees have a problem with their coverage, like read more

Paula Span The assisted living facility in Edina, Minnesota, where Jean Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, read more

Even by rural hospital standards, Keokuk County Hospital and Clinics in southeastern Iowa is small. The 14-bed hospital, in Sigourney, read more

Rae Ellen Bichell and Rachana Pradhan The National Institutes of Health’s sweeping cuts of grants that fund scientific research are read more

Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts, a small city two hours west of Boston, for about read more

For many years, Eric Wunderlin’s health issues made it hard to find stable employment. Struggling to manage depression and diabetes, read more

Mass firings at the FDA have decimated divisions tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities in read more

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News Because of past fraud by rogue brokers, some Affordable Care Act policyholders may get an read more

Alanys Ortiz entiende las señales de Josephine Senek antes de que ella pueda decir nada. Josephine, quien vive con una read more

MANSFIELD, La. — When Desoto Regional Health System took out $36 million in loans last year to renovate a rural read more

Public access to government records that document the handling of illnesses, faulty products, and safety lapses at health facilities will read more

Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has made combating fraud a centerpiece of his administration. Trump has read more

Alanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a rare and debilitating genetic condition, fidgets read more

A view of 5600 Fishers Lane in Rockville, Maryland, which houses the headquarters of the Agency for Healthcare Research and read more

HENRICO, Va. — Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company. Sometimes, as the read more

HELENA, Mont. — Montana’s small, independent pharmacies say they’re getting increasingly squeezed on reimbursements by pharmacy benefit managers — and read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

HELENA, Mont. — Mark Nay’s first client had lost the van she was living in and was struggling with substance read more

The routine is familiar for most people: When checking in for an appointment with a doctor or other health care read more

The Trump administration’s crackdown on DEI programs could exacerbate an unexpectedly steep drop in diversity among medical school students, even read more

When the FDA announced in January, before President Joe Biden’s term ended, that it would ban a dye called red read more

HELENA, Mont. — Montana lawmakers are grappling with how — if at all — the state should rein in kratom, read more

(iStock/Getty Images) Spending cuts, immigration, and Medicaid are at the top of the Washington agenda. That climate provides fertile ground read more

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News La administración Trump publicó el lunes 10 de marzo su primer conjunto importante de cambios read more

When patients walked into Planned Parenthood clinics, a consumer data company sold their precise locations to anti-abortion groups for targeted read more

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News The Trump administration issued its first major set of proposed changes to the Affordable Care read more

President Donald Trump’s health officials want you to take your vitamins. Mehmet Oz, the nominee to lead the Centers for read more

Phillip Reese Kirk Vartan pays more than $2,000 a month for a high-deductible health insurance plan from Blue Shield on read more

After a patch of ice sent Marc Durocher hurtling to the ground, and doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center repaired read more

David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group A year ago, a new head of Social Security set out to read more

When congressional Republicans in 2017 pushed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and slash Medicaid, dozens of physician groups, patient read more

Researchers racing to develop bird flu vaccines for humans have turned to a cutting-edge technology that enabled the rapid development read more

Arthur Allen Panelists at a covid conference last fall were asked to voice their regrets — policies they had supported read more

The U.S. public health system has long been under strain, stymied by declines in funding as well as employees. And read more

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose read more

Cada vez más estados están facilitando que médicos que se formaron en otros países obtengan licencias médicas, un cambio que, read more

Noam N. Levey As President Donald Trump wrapped up his first term in 2020, he signed legislation to protect Americans read more

A growing number of states have made it easier for doctors who trained in other countries to get medical licenses, read more

Angela Hart Los Angeles County homelessness leaders last year reported nearly 30,000 permanent housing placements — an annual high for read more

Angela Hart ALTADENA, Calif. — As flames engulfed a nearby canyon, dozens of residents in a sober-living home fled to read more

Jackie Fortiér The lobby at this St. John’s Community Health clinic in South Los Angeles bustles with patients. But community read more

Jackie Fortiér El vestíbulo de la clínica comunitaria St. John’s Community Health en el sur de Los Ángeles está repleto read more

At a recent Nevada legislative committee hearing, lawmakers faced off with members of the governor’s administration over how to fill read more

Last fall, before being named the senior U.S. health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Trump administration would liberate read more

Renuka Rayasam Congressional lawmakers are facing tricky arithmetic as they hammer out a budget plan to finance President Donald Trump’s read more

A Kentucky county nestled in the heart of Appalachia, where the opioid crisis has wreaked devastation for decades, spent $15,000 read more

McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — Each month, Michelle Shaw went to a pain clinic to get the shots that made her back read more

Christine Mai-Duc When Colleen Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a read more

Collection agents for the state of Iowa have sent letters seeking millions of dollars from the estates of at least read more

HAVANA, Florida. — Para ser una comunidad rural, este pueblo de 1,750 habitantes ha sido más afortunado que la mayoría. read more

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House sent a clear signal about Medicaid to Republicans across the country: Requiring read more

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients read more

February 14, 2025 Article HTML Nothing sweeps us off our feet like a health policy valentine. Readers showed their love read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators in Sacramento seem to agree: Prescription drug prices are too high. But lawmakers read more

Mike Dennison HELENA, Mont. — When Lou and Lindsay Volpe’s son was diagnosed with a chronic bowel disease at age read more

For more than a decade, Kaiser Permanente has been under the microscope for shortcomings in mental health care, even as read more

Shannon Sharpe was having one of those 15-minutes-of-internet-infamy moments. Social media blew up in September after the retired Denver Broncos read more

Michelle Andrews One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martin’s cousin called with alarming news. Martin’s 74-year-old aunt had been mauled read more

Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News SUITLAND, Md. — At a SuperSuds Laundromat just south of Washington, D.C., a steady stream read more

Julie Rovner, KFF Health News Abortion foes worried before his election that President Donald Trump had moved on, now that read more

Victoria Clayton SALINAS, Calif. — This coastal valley made famous by the novelist John Steinbeck is sometimes known affectionately as read more

Victoria Clayton SALINAS, California. — Este valle costero, que se hizo famoso gracias al novelista John Steinbeck, a veces se read more

WALHALLA, S.C. — Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a small primary care clinic run by Clemson read more

Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News and Arthur Allen Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist President Donald Trump nominated to read more

Montana lawmakers are grappling with what they can do to improve patient care and operations at the state’s psychiatric hospital read more

The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across read more

In summertime, cows wait under a canopy to be milked at Mark McAfee’s farm in Fresno, California. From his Cessna read more

States and the nation’s health industry were thrown into disarray after the Trump administration ordered Monday that the government freeze read more

President Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, read more

HELENA, Mont. — As part of a proposed revamping of the state’s behavioral health system, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration read more

California está aconsejando a los proveedores de atención médica que no pongan el estatus migratorio de los pacientes en las read more

For decades, the United States has held considerable power in determining the direction of global health policies and programs. President read more

In his return to the White House this week, President Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders on immigration, read more

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News and Stephanie Armour President Donald Trump’s early actions on health care signal his likely intention read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical records and telling read more

Tus bocadillos podrían ser blanco del nuevo gobierno de Trump. Durante años, el gobierno federal ha evitado regular la comida read more

John Daley, Colorado Public Radio DENVER — Outside HCA HealthONE Rose medical center, the snow is flying. Inside, on the read more

The new Trump administration could be coming for your snacks. For years, the federal government has steered clear of regulating read more

The Host Incoming President Donald Trump’s inauguration is Monday, yet the new GOP-led Congress is already rushing to work his read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the nation braces for potential policy shifts under President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” mantra, read more

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline read more

Una de las tareas del oncólogo es preparar a los pacientes con cáncer para tomar decisiones difíciles cuando se acerca read more

Throughout her childhood, Julia Lo Cascio dreamed of becoming a pediatrician. So, when applying to medical school, she was thrilled read more

Los incendios forestales que se propagan rápidamente y han transformado gran parte del condado de Los Ángeles en un infierno read more

The rapidly spreading wildfires that have transformed much of Los Angeles County into a raging hellscape are not only upending read more

Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist’s job. They don’t always remember to do it, however. At the read more

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of read more

Samantha Liss On the heels of a scuttled hospital merger between rivals in Terre Haute, Indiana, a state senator introduced read more

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a read more

When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options in 2023, he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs. read more

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an read more

In 2024, our nationwide team of gumshoes set out to answer your most pressing questions about medical bills, such as: read more

Las nuevas inscripciones bajo la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA) parecen ser hasta un millón menos read more

Julie Appleby, KFF Health News New enrollments under the Affordable Care Act are on pace to trail last year’s record read more

Ann Lewandowski knows all about pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, the companies that shape the U.S. drug market. Her job, read more

Among the biggest-grossing films in America in February 2002 were a war drama about American troops in Somalia (“Black Hawk read more

Tescha Hawley learned that hospital bills from her son’s birth had been sent to debt collectors only when she checked read more

ERWIN, Tenn. — April Boyd texted her husband before she boarded the helicopter. “So, I don’t want to be dramatic,” read more

Eloisa Mendoza ha pasado 18 años ayudando a personas que no dominan el inglés a comprender documentos legales complejos. Los read more