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News has been coming out of Washington, D.C., since the start of the second Donald Trump administration like water out … Continue ReadingAn Arm and a Leg: A Health Policy Veteran Puts 2025 in Perspective

The Trump administration must soon make a decision that will affect millions of Americans’ ability to access and afford mental … Continue ReadingTrump Team Faces Key Legal Decision That Could Put Mental Health Parity in Peril

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson anticipates that California’s sprawling Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, may need to … Continue ReadingA California Lawmaker Leans Into Her Medical Training in Fight for Health Safety Net

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host … Continue ReadingKFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Cutting Medicaid Is Hard — Even for the GOP

On the eastern plains of Colorado, in a county of less than 6,000 people, Lincoln Health runs the only hospital … Continue ReadingSeeking Spending Cuts, GOP Lawmakers Target a Tax Hospitals Love To Pay

In his March address to Congress, President Donald Trump honored a Texas boy diagnosed with brain cancer. Amid bipartisan applause, … Continue ReadingTrump Policies at Odds With ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Push

CRESTWOOD, Mo. — The prospect of sweeping federal cuts to Medicaid is alarming to some Missourians who remember the last … Continue ReadingAs Republicans Eye Sweeping Medicaid Cuts, Missouri Offers a Preview

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead … Continue ReadingAt Social Security, These Are the Days of the Living Dead

Republicans have long pushed to force working-age adults enrolled in Medicaid to show they are, in fact, working.  Party members … Continue ReadingWork Requirements Might Cut Medicaid Spending. But at What Cost? 

The country’s top nonpartisan government watchdog has confirmed it is examining the costs of running the nation’s only active Medicaid … Continue ReadingGovernment Watchdog Expects Medicaid Work Requirement Analysis by Fall