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  • People walk past an entrance to the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland, on June 5, 2025.Health

    ‘We dissent’: NIH workers protest Trump policies that ‘harm the health of Americans’

    By KFF Health News and Rachana Pradhan
  • Doctor in face mask is looking away through window with tiredness while having a breakLifestyle

    American doctors are moving to Canada to escape the Trump administration

    By Brett Kelman and KFF Health News
  • Pam Bondi, US attorney general, center, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. Bondi said Wednesday that the Justice Department has sued the state of New York and several officials over its immigration policies. Photographer: Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLifestyle

    Trump’s DOJ accuses Medicare Advantage insurers of paying ‘kickbacks’ for primo customers

    By KFF Health News and Julie Appleby
  • Leaving a Medicare Advantage plan is usually challenging for patients. But it’s becoming easier as health systems lead the way.Aging Well

    Breakups between health systems and Medicare Advantage plans have increased. Sometimes, patients get to leave plans, too

    By Susan Jaffe and KFF Health News
  • Amid a youth mental health crisis and a shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds, residents of a St. Louis suburb opposed a plan to build a 77-bed pediatric mental health hospital. Resistance to such facilities has occurred in other communities as misconceptions about mental health spur fear.Mind

    More psych hospital beds are needed for kids, but neighbors say not here

    By Eric Berger and KFF Health News
  • Mehmet Oz, who is running for the US Senate, speaks as former US President Donald Trump stands behind him during a campaign rally in support of Oz and Doug Mastriano for Governor of Pennsylvania at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on September 3, 2022. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)Aging Well

    Health care for more than 100 million Americans is being turned over to a supplement salesman

    By KFF Health News and Darius Tahir
  • Jennifer PahlkaTech

    She co-founded the office that became DOGE. Now, she sees ‘irresponsible transformation.’

    By Sarah Kwon and KFF Health News
  • Chikao Tsubaki took part in a program called Community Aging in Place: Advancing Better Living for Elders, or CAPABLE, that helps people modify their homes and safely live independently as they age. In addition to an occupational therapist and a nurse, CAPABLE sent a handy worker to Tsubaki’s home to install grab bars and build a bookshelf that wouldn’t topple over when he reached for his cherished books.Aging Well

    Home improvements can help people age independently. But Medicare seldom picks up the bill

    By
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Health

    With RFK Jr. in charge, supplement makers see chance to cash in

    By KFF Health News and Arthur Allen
  • UNITED STATES – NOVEMBER 10: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya speaks during a roundtable discussion with members of the House Freedom Caucus on the COVID-19 pandemic at The Heritage Foundation on Thursday, November 10, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Health

    As COVID ‘contrarians’ take power, experts warn we’re even less prepared for the next pandemic

    By Arthur Allen and KFF Health News
  • Caucasian mother and daughter sitting comfortably at home, crunching the numbers and paying their house bills using a laptopHealth

    Biden administration bars medical debt from credit scores

    By
  • A senior woman and her mature daughter at home in Seghill, Northumberland. The senior woman is staying with her daughter for support and care as she has dementia. They are sat at the dining room table where they’re looking through financial bills, looking concerned.Health

    Rage has long shadowed American health care. It’s rarely produced big change

    By Noam N. Levey and KFF Health News
  • A new mother sitting on a rocking chair in her living room wearing a housecoat holding her newborn baby. There is a breast pump and nursing supplies around.Health

    Florida moms abruptly lost postpartum health coverage due to a Deloitte-run Medicaid computer system ‘glitch’

    By Daniel Chang, Samantha Liss, and others
  • GLENDALE, AZ, AUGUST 23: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is greeted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on stage during a campaign event at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23, 2024. Kennedy announced the suspension of his presidential campaign and would endorse Trump. (Photo by Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)Health

    Trump’s White House return poised to tangle health care safety net

    By Stephanie Armour and KFF Health News
  • Joshua McCray, of Kingstree, South Carolina, nearly died from covid-19 four years ago. McCray says doctors put him on a ventilator and told his wife he was likely going to die. Today, the retired public bus driver remains too weak to drive. (Gavin McIntyre for KFF Health News)Health

    Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress

    By Fred Clasen-Kelly, Renuka Rayasam, and others