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• KFF Health News: Kennedy Sharpens Vaccine Attacks, Without Scientific Backing

  November 24, 2025: As the federal government prepares for the next meeting of its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has intensified his attacks on aluminum vaccine components used in many shots to bo...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Complaints About Gaps in Medicare Advantage Networks Are Common. Federal Enforcement Is Rare.

  November 20, 2025: Along with the occasional aches and pains, growing older can bring surprise setbacks and serious diseases. Longtime relationships with doctors people trust often make even bad news more tolerable. Losing that support — especially during a health cr...Read more >

• KFF Health News: As Health Companies Get Bigger, So Do the Bills. It’s Unclear if Trump’s Team Will Intervene.

  November 10, 2025: A cancer patient might live in a town with four oncology groups, but only one accepts his insurance — the one owned by his insurer. A young couple could see huge bills after their child is born, because their insurer agreed to the health system’s...Read more >

• Health Care Costs Surge As ACA Open Enrollment Begins

  November 07, 2025: Americans shopping for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace insurance plans during open enrollment – which began this Saturday – are experiencing confusion and dramatically more expensive premiums. This includes five million older Americans betw...Read more >

• Social Security Callers Waiting Hours, Or Sometimes Days, for Help

  October 31, 2025: Seniors and people with disabilities calling the Social Security Administration (SSA) face endless looping music, long wait times, useless robot messages, and extended periods between a request and an actual callback, according to a new report from t...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers’ Credit Scores From Medical Debt

  October 28, 2025: The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to weaken protections for Americans with medical debt, issuing new guidance that threatens ongoing state efforts to keep that debt off consumers’ credit reports. More than a dozen states, includ...Read more >

• Deepfake Scam Ads Promoting Fake Benefit Programs for Seniors Explode on Meta Social Media Platforms

  October 16, 2025: A new report from the Tech Transparency Project identified 63 scam advertisers that spent $49 million on more than 150,000 fraudulent Instagram and Facebook ads promoting fake stimulus checks, government benefits, and healthcare payments in the last ...Read more >

• Older Enrollees and Patients Living in Red States Will Be Hurt Most If ACA Subsidies Lapse

  October 09, 2025: Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 and those living in Republican congressional districts will be the hardest hit if the current Affordable Care Act tax credits are not renewed by Congress, according to new analyses from KFF. The tax credits ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Health Centers Face Risks as Government Funding Lapses

  October 03, 2025: [caption id="attachment_15806" align="aligncenter" width="700"] St. John’s Community Health in Los Angeles is one of the roughly 1,500 community health centers, some of which run multiple clinics, that are bracing for cuts to government funds they ...Read more >

• Report: Poverty is Rising, But Only for Seniors

  October 02, 2025: The percentage of older Americans living in poverty increased from 14.2 to 15 percent between this year and last year, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. The uptick is specific to seniors, as every other age group analyzed eith...Read more >