- Journalists Talk Southern Health Care: HIV Drug Access, Medicaid Expansion, Vaccination RatesFebruary 15, 2025
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
- Sights, Sounds Trigger Trauma for Super Bowl Parade Shooting Survivorsby Bram Sable-Smith February 14, 2025
Survivors and witnesses of gun violence often freeze emotionally at first, as a coping mechanism. As the one-year mark since the parade shooting nears, the […]
- Urgent CDC Data and Analyses on Influenza and Bird Flu Go Missing as Outbreaks Escalateby Amy Maxmen February 14, 2025
Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health […]
- A Dose of Love: The Winning Health Policy ValentinesFebruary 14, 2025
KFF Health News shares our favorite reader-submitted health policy valentines. One struck us in the heart and inspired an original cartoon.
- As States Mull Medicaid Work Requirements, Two With Experience Scale Backby Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead February 14, 2025
As Republicans consider adding work requirements to Medicaid, Georgia and Arkansas — two states with experience running such programs — want to scale back […]
- KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Courts Try To Curb Health CutsFebruary 13, 2025
Some of the Trump administration’s dramatic funding and policy shifts are facing major pushback for the first time — not from Congress, but from the […]
- Se busca médico: estrategias de un pueblito de Florida para atraer a un doctor generalistaby Daniel Chang February 13, 2025
Se espera que la escasez de médicos en Florida aumente en la próxima década, y un estudio prevé una necesidad de 18.000 médicos en todo el estado.
- Montana Looks To Regulate Prior Authorization as Patients, Providers Decry Obstacles to Careby Mike Dennis February 13, 2025
Patients and providers say health insurers’ preapproval requirements lead to delays and denials of needed medical treatments. Insurers argue that prior […]
- Top California Democrats Clash Over How To Rein In Drug Industry Middlemenby Christine Mai-Duc February 13, 2025
Frustrated by spiraling drug costs, California lawmakers want to increase oversight of pharmaceutical industry intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit […]
- Republican States Claim Zero Abortions. A Red-State Doctor Calls That ‘Ludicrous.’by Sarah Varney, KFF Health News February 13, 2025
In several red states, officials say few or no abortions happened in 2023, raising alarm among researchers about the politicization of vital statistics.