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• KFF Health News: The Growing Inequality in Life Expectancy Among Americans

  January 22, 2025: The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti. For many Asian Americans, it’s around 84 — on par with life expectan...Read more >

• 15 New Drugs Selected for 2025 Medicare Price Negotiation

  January 17, 2025: On Friday, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a list of 15 new prescription drugs that Medicare will negotiate lower prices for. Under the law, HHS is required to negotiate a specific number of drugs each year. The list con...Read more >

• Out-of-Pocket Cap Expected to Save Medicare Beneficiaries More than $7 Billion in 2025

  January 17, 2025: A new analysis indicates that the Inflation Reduction Act’s $2,000 cap on annual out-of-pocket prescription drug costs – which kicked in this year – will result in significant savings for seniors. About 11 million Americans with Medicare are ex...Read more >

• Medicare Advantage Does Not Provide More Supplemental Coverage for Beneficiaries

  January 17, 2025: Despite Medicare Advantage plans being able to offer beneficiaries dental, vision, and hearing services, a new study shows that beneficiaries do not actually receive more of these services than people with traditional Medicare. The study found tha...Read more >

• Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Pro-Worker Legacy

  January 17, 2025: As we celebrate the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday – Monday, January 20 – it’s important to remember his work to connect the labor and the civil rights movements. Dr. King understood that unions ensure that working people have a voice. He t...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump’s Return Puts Medicaid on the Chopping Block

  January 15, 2025: Under President Joe Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low. Donald Trump’s return to the White House — along with a GOP-controlled Senate and House of Representatives — is expected to chan...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Biden Administration Bars Medical Debt From Credit Scores

  January 08, 2025: The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office. The rules ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: In Year 7, ‘Bill of the Month’ Gives Patients a Voice

  January 02, 2025: In 2024, our nationwide team of gumshoes set out to answer your most pressing questions about medical bills, such as: Can free preventive care really come with add-on bills for items like surgical trays? Or, why does it cost so much to treat a ratt...Read more >

• KFF Health News: A Centenarian Thrives Living Alone, Active and Engaged

  December 19, 2024: “The future is here,” the email announced. Hilda Jaffe, then 88, was letting her children know she planned to sell the family home in Verona, New Jersey. She’d decided to begin life anew — on her own — in a one-bedroom apartment in Hell’s...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump’s Picks for Top Health Jobs Not Just Team of Rivals but ‘Team of Opponents’

  December 19, 2024: Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr....Read more >