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• 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: AI Will Soon Have a Say in Approving or Denying Medicare Treatments

  September 25, 2025: [caption id="attachment_15788" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Mehmet Oz, chief of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said during a June press conference that “violence in the streets” had prompted the Trump ad Read More >

• KFF Health News: Team Trump’s Answer to Ballooning Obamacare Premiums: Less Generous Coverage

  September 17, 2025: Trump administration officials, looking at the possible impact of large insurance premium increases for millions of next year’s Obamacare customers, want more people to consider plans with less generous benefits and high deducti 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 >

• KFF Health News: Social Security Praises Its New Chatbot. Ex-Officials Say It Was Tested But Shelved Under Biden.

  September 02, 2025: John McGing couldn’t reach a human. That might be business-as-usual in this economy, but it wasn’t business; he had called the Social Security Administration, where the questions often aren’t generic and the callers tend to Read More >

• KFF Health News: How Older People Are Reaping Brain Benefits From New Tech

  August 21, 2025: It started with a high school typing course. Wanda Woods enrolled because her father advised that typing proficiency would lead to jobs. Sure enough, the federal Environmental Protection Agency hired her as an after-school work Read More >

• KFF Health News: Breaking Down Why Medicare Part D Premiums Are Likely To Go Up

  August 15, 2025: Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to $50 a month — when they shop for next year’s coverage. Such drug plans are used by millions of people Read More >

• KFF Health News: Experts Say Rural Emergency Rooms Are Increasingly Run Without Doctors

  August 12, 2025: EKALAKA, Mont. — There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived in early June at the emergency room in the small hospital at the intersection of two dirt roads in this town of 400 residents. There never is. Dahl Memori Read More >

• KFF Health News: Congress Looks To Ease Restrictions on Veterans’ Use of Non-VA Clinics and Hospitals

  August 06, 2025: WATERLOO, Iowa — John-Paul Sager appreciates the care he has received at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics, but he thinks it should be easier for veterans like him to use their benefits elsewhere. Sager, a Read More >

• KFF Health News: Chronically Ill? In Kennedy’s View, It Might Be Your Own Fault

  August 01, 2025: On a recent weekday evening, Ashly Richards helped her 13-year-old son, Case, with homework. He did math problems and some reading, underscoring how much he’s accomplished at his school for children with autism. Richards has Read More >