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• 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 go Read More >

• KFF Health News: Shutdown Halts Some Health Services as Political Risks Test Parties’ Resolve

  October 01, 2025: Threats of a federal government shutdown have gone from being an October surprise to a recurring theme. This time around, though, the stakes are higher. Federal funding ran out at midnight on Oct. 1, after Congress failed to pa Read More >

• KFF Health News: In the Fallout From Trump’s Health Funding Cuts, States Face Tough Budget Decision

  September 09, 2025: Patients begin lining up before dawn at Operation Border Health, an annual five-day health clinic in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Many residents in this predominantly Latino and Hispanic region spanning the Mexican border lack insu Read More >

• HHS Secretary Grilled About Medicaid, CDC Firings, and Vaccines During Contentious Hearing

  September 05, 2025: During a tense hearing on Thursday, members of the Senate Finance Committee pressed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his position on a number of issues, including Medicare drug price negotiation, vaccine skepticism, recen Read More >

• President Trump Signs Budget and Tax Bill That Guts Health Care Millions of Older Americans Rely On to Pad Pockets of the Ultra-Wealthy

  July 04, 2025: The Republican Budget Reconciliation bill was signed into law on Friday morning. The law includes the largest cuts to health care and taxes in United States history, trillions in tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and corporati Read More >

• House Votes to Gut Health Care Millions of Older Americans Rely On to Pad Pockets of the Ultra-Wealthy

  July 03, 2025: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the House Budget Resolution Vote: “Today, the House turned its back on the very people they were electe Read More >

• KFF Health News: Republican Megabill Will Mean Higher Health Costs for Many Americans

  July 03, 2025: President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts federal spending on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces by about $1 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, threateni Read More >

• Senate Votes to Harm Older Americans’ Health and Financial Security to Reward Billionaires With Massive Tax Cuts

  July 01, 2025: Deep Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP Will Put Most Vulnerable Seniors at Risk The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the Senate Budget Resolution: � Read More >

• KFF Health News: In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured

  June 30, 2025: CLARKESVILLE, Ga. — Last September, Alton Fry went to the doctor concerned he had high blood pressure. The trip would result in a prostate cancer diagnosis. So began the stress of trying to pay for tens of thousands of dollar Read More >

• Senate Republicans Scramble to Pass Unpopular Budget Bill

  June 27, 2025: Senate GOP leaders are forging ahead despite broad opposition to their “big, beautiful” budget bill. Nearly two-thirds of Americans view it unfavorably, according to a new KFF poll. Earlier in the week, 15 vulnerable House Read More >