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States Push Medicaid Work Rules, but Few Programs Help Enrollees Find Jobs

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Photo Courtesy: Maddie McGarvy, KFF Health News Written By: Sam Whitehead, Phil Galewitz, and Katheryn Houghton (NATIONAL) For many years, Eric Wunderlin’s health issues made it hard to...

Rural Hospitals and Patients Are Disconnected From Modern Care

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Written By: Sarah Jane Tribble and Holly K. Hacker and Careese Jackman, Investigate TV (NATIONAL) Leroy Walker arrived at the county hospital short of breath. Walker, 65 and with chronic...

Many People With Disabilities Risk Losing Their Medicaid if They Work Too Much

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Written By: Tony Leys (NATIONAL) Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a jumble of Medicaid rules that...

Tribal Health Leaders Say Medicaid Cuts Would Decimate Health Programs

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Written By: Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez (NATIONAL) As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the...

How the FDA Opens the Door to Risky Chemicals in America’s Food Supply

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Written By: David Hilzenrath (NATIONAL) Joseph Shea, who sells athletic wear in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, wonders and worries about the food he eats. Read this story on KFF Health...

Trump Vowed To End Surprise Medical Bills. The Office Working on That Just Got Slashed.

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Written By: Noam N. Levey (NATIONAL) As President Donald Trump wrapped up his first term in 2020, he signed legislation to protect Americans from surprise medical bills. “This must end,”...

Texas Measles Outbreak Nears 100 Cases, Raising Concerns About Undetected Spread

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Written By: Amy Maxmen (NATIONAL) Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are overstretched, pausing...

Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalate

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Written By: Amy Maxmen (NATIONAL) Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness,...

Some Incarcerated Youths Will Get Health Care After Release Under New Law

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Illustration By: Oona Zenda Written By: Renuka Rayasam (NATIONAL) Valentino Valdez was given his birth certificate, his Social Security card, a T-shirt, and khaki pants when he was...

A Program To Close Insurance Gaps for Native Americans Has Gone Largely Unused

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Written By: Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez (NATIONAL) A few years before the covid-19 pandemic, Dale Rice lost a toe to infection. Read this story on KFF Health News here.  But because he was...