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• KFF Health News: Say That Again: Using Hearing Aids Can Be Frustrating for Older Adults, but Necessary

  February 28, 2024: It was an every-other-day routine, full of frustration. Every time my husband called his father, who was 94 when he died in 2022, he’d wait for his dad to find his hearing aids and put them in before they started talking. Read More >

• Southern Lawmakers Rethink Long-Standing Opposition to Medicaid Expansion

  February 22, 2024: As a part-time customer service representative, Jolene Dybas earns less than $15,000 a year, which is below the federal poverty level and too low for her to be eligible for subsidized health insurance on the Obamacare marketplace. Read More >

• KFF Health News: Halfway Through ‘Unwinding,’ Medicaid Enrollment Is Down About 10 Million

  February 08, 2024: Halfway through what will be the biggest purge of Medicaid beneficiaries in a one-year span, enrollment in the government-run health insurance program is on track to return to roughly pre-pandemic levels. Medicaid, which covers Read More >

• KFF Health News: The FTC Is Attacking Drugmakers’ ‘Patent Thickets’

  February 01, 2024: The Federal Trade Commission has challenged the validity of over 100 drug product patents, focusing on devices used to deliver medicines, like inhalers and autoinjectors, in an effort to increase competition and potentially lower Read More >

• KFF Health News: With Trump Front of Mind, New Hampshire Voters Cite Abortion and Obamacare as Concerns

  January 25, 2024: HANOVER, N.H. — Health care issues are important to Lana Leggett-Kealey, who works as a genetic genealogist. But on Tuesday, as she walked out of her polling place at a local high school and into a frigid New England morning, sh Read More >

• KFF Health News: Dodging the Medicare Enrollment Deadline Can Be Costly

  December 14, 2023: Angela M. Du Bois, a retired software tester in Durham, North Carolina, wasn’t looking to replace her UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plan. She wasn’t concerned as the Dec. 7 deadline approached for choosing another of the Read More >

• Uncle Sam Wants You … to Help Stop Insurers’ Bogus Medicare Advantage Sales Tactics

  November 30, 2023: After an unprecedented crackdown on misleading advertising claims by insurers selling private Medicare Advantage and drug plans, the Biden administration hopes to unleash a special weapon to make sure companies follow the new rule Read More >

• KFF Health News: Facing Financial Ruin as Costs Soar for Elder Care

  November 16, 2023: Margaret Newcomb, 69, a retired French teacher, is desperately trying to protect her retirement savings by caring for her 82-year-old husband, who has severe dementia, at home in Seattle. She used to fear his disease-induced paran Read More >

• KFF Health News: Doubts Abound About a New Alzheimer’s Blood Test

  November 01, 2023: For the first time, people worried about their risk of Alzheimer’s disease can go online, order a blood test, and receive results in the privacy of their homes. This might seem appealing on the surface, but the development ha Read More >

• KFF Health News: Let’s Have an Honest Conversation About What to Expect as You Age

  October 26, 2023: How many of us have wanted a reliable, evidence-based guide to aging that explains how our bodies and minds change as we grow older and how to adapt to those differences? Creating a work of this kind is challenging. For one thi Read More >