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• KFF Health News: Trump’s Personnel Agency Says It Will Remove Some Identifying Info as It Sweeps Up Medical Records

  July 22, 2026: The Trump administration is forging ahead with a controversial plan to collect the medical records of millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members. The Office of Personnel Management said in a notice posted last month ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Facing Funding Losses, States Call Out Big Businesses With Employees on Medicaid

  July 15, 2026: As the Trump administration’s January deadline looms for states to enforce new Medicaid work requirements, some state lawmakers are turning the tables by pushing to publicly name the largest companies that have employees enrolled in the government ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Thousands of Medicare Beneficiaries Thought Their Drug Plan Was Free. Then They Lost It.

  July 07, 2026: Jude Pare and his partner, Diane Tix, live in rural Minnesota until temperatures dip below freezing, when they take refuge in Arizona for the winter. While away, their mail is forwarded. But Pare, 77, said he didn’t receive any warning from his Med...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Medicare Advantage Company Pays $342M to Government in Midst of Billing Probe

  June 26, 2026: A major Medicare Advantage company has paid the government more than $342 million to help settle allegations that it overcharged the federal healthcare program for years. Elevance Health, which covers about 2 million people on Medicare, sent the m...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Medicare’s AI Push Snarls Patients and Doctors in Errors and Delays

  June 25, 2026: (iStock/Getty Images) Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before him. Each quarter, for several years, he has made the 2½-hour drive to Oklahoma City for an epidural in his spine...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Democrats Seek To Spotlight Rising Health Costs by Forcing Vote on Trump Regulation

  June 18, 2026: In a move that mixes pure politics with weedy congressional procedures, Senate Democrats are seeking to force a vote to overturn a Trump administration rule that they say will make it harder to enroll in Affordable Care Act health plans and sharply r...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump Bought Tobacco Stocks and Raked In Industry Donations as FDA Eased Standards

  June 11, 2026: President Donald Trump, who once declared he had “saved” flavored vapes, grew his stock holdings this year to as much as $1.64 million in tobacco giant Philip Morris. He also had holdings in Altria and a third leading tobacco company, though a...Read more >

• Administration Launches Attacks on Vote-By-Mail Just In Time for Midterm Elections

  June 04, 2026: Last week, the United States Postal Service (USPS) proposed a new rule that would force states to provide data for mail-in and absentee voters to the federal government, including names, addresses, and envelope barcode information. The move came a...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Baffling. Frustrating. Frightening. What It’s Like To Be Sued Over Medical Debt.

  June 01, 2026: When Christine Wood received a $12,000 bill from Bristol Hospital, she thought it must be a mistake. It was more than she and her husband made in a month combined. “I’m freaking out,” said Wood, who lives in a 1,700-square-foot home in Terry...Read more >

• KFF Health News: 3 Medical Routines That Older People May Not Need

  May 29, 2026: Enough time had passed since the patient’s previous colonoscopy that she met the criteria to undergo another, said Steven Itzkowitz, a gastroenterologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She was in “reasonably good h...Read more >