KFF Health News

KFF Health Newsby Taylor Sisk·18d ago

Black Lung Disease Remains a Threat, but Federal Officials Delay Effort To Address It OAK HILL, W.Va.

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KFF Health Newsby Sarah Jane Tribble, Ali Swenson, The Associated Press and Linley Sanders, The Associated Press·18d ago

Economic Frustration Tests Trump’s Standing With Rural Voters, New KFF-AP Poll Finds About half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump...

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KFF Health Newsby Paula Span·19d ago

The San Vicente de Paúl Nursing Home in the South Bronx hasn’t admitted a patient since December 2024.

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KFF Health Newsby Arthur Allen·20d ago

Insurance Coverage Lags as Cancer Science, Treatment Move Forward Eighteen months after his initial diagnosis, chemotherapy hadn’t slowed 21-year-old Mason Henderson’s rare brain tumor, which had...

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KFF Health Newsby Hayat Norimine·20d ago

BOISE, Idaho — Joshua and Ashley Durham run a family medicine practice, and for the first time in their lives, they have no health insurance.

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KFF Health Newsby Aneri Pattani·21d ago

Paul Nestadt is about as steeped in suicide prevention as a person can be. He treats suicidal patients as a psychiatrist, has co-authored scores of research papers on how and why people kill...

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KFF Health Newsby David Hilzenrath·24d ago

The Drugs and Devices Have Been on the Market for Years. But FDA-Ordered Studies Still Aren’t Done.

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KFF Health Newsby Priyanka Dayal McCluskey, WBUR·24d ago

On a weekday morning in a quiet Boston neighborhood, a kitchen bustled with activity. Volunteers sliced chicken breasts, stuffed bell peppers, filled trays, and carefully labeled each item.

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KFF Health Newsby Paula Span·25d ago

The scenario often unfolds like this: Medical researchers investigate a frequently used drug and report that it’s less effective for older patients than previously thought, or that its risks...

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KFF Health Newsby Erin Rode, Capital & Main·25d ago

California Eyes Prison Heat Protections That Fall Short of Workplace Standards As Californians have weathered relentless heat waves, state workplace safety regulators have repeatedly reminded...

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KFF Health Newsby Sarah Jane Tribble·26d ago

States bet big on rural health startups, with a Silicon Valley twist When Josh Fleig, Louisiana’s chief innovation officer, learned his state had set aside $20 million a year, for five years, to...

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KFF Health Newsby Katheryn Houghton·27d ago

A Cancer Survivor Hoped To Work — Then She Lost Her Medicaid Disability Coverage Taya Hailstone has been in remission from childhood Hodgkin lymphoma for five years.

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KFF Health Newsby Briah Lumpkins·27d ago

Amber Bates of Cohutta, Georgia, is one of thousands of people without health insurance in the 14th Congressional District, home to about 765,000 people in the northwestern corner of the state.

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KFF Health Newsby Claudia Boyd-Barrett·28d ago

The little girl stared up at Norma Gómez from the doorway of her neighbor’s apartment, her sad, brown eyes suddenly flashing with hope.

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KFF Health Newsby Terry Byrne·11 Sept 2026

Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names.

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KFF Health Newsby Ashley Mizuo·11 Sept 2026

Indigenous Groups Are Exempt From Medicaid Work Rules, but Native Hawaiians Aren’t WAIANAE, Hawai‘i — Native Hawaiians will need to comply with new work requirements to qualify for Medicaid after...

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KFF Health Newsby Paula Span·10 Sept 2026

For several years, Nicole Straight and Patricia Wood, who lived across the street from each other in Sausalito, California, were more neighbors than friends, exchanging sociable greetings and...

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KFF Health Newsby Olivia Aldridge, KUT·9 Sept 2026

Nonprofits Are Helping Musicians Pay for Insurance in Austin, Texas, and Beyond AUSTIN, Texas — Musician Zack Morgan jokes that when he lost his corporate job in 2015, it was like being pushed off...

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KFF Health Newsby Noam N. Levey·9 Sept 2026

A NY Hospital Tried To Close Its Birthing Center. This City United To Fight Back. TROY, N.Y. — Like many residents of this aging industrial city on the Hudson River, Starletta Washington was...

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KFF Health Newsby Amanda Seitz, Maia Rosenfeld and Darius Tahir·8 Sept 2026

Democrats Demand Trump Administration Halt Collection of Patients’ ER Records A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it...

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