KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...

American communities plagued by gun violence, including Four Corners in Boston, honor pockets of safety as sacred spaces. A ...

A Republican House resolution, which needs the Senate’s buy-in, directed a committee to propose ways to reduce the deficit by ...

Nearly 3 million Americans live sicker, shorter lives in the hundreds of rural counties where doctor shortages are the worst ...

California businesses saw employees’ monthly family insurance premiums rise nearly $1,000 over a 15-year period, more than ...

President Donald Trump’s health team has deep financial ties to the supplements industry. Now they’re poised to boost its ...

Republicans have proposed legislation in several states to ban the pioneering technology used in covid shots. Many doctors ...

Many patients ready to leave the hospital end up lingering for days or weeks — occupying beds that others need and driving up ...

The proposal also would reverse a Biden administration policy that allowed “Dreamers” — immigrants in the country illegally ...

The American Medical Association and the leading nursing home trade group both are lobbying Republicans in Congress on other ...

As policymakers in Washington debate potentially steep funding cuts to Medicaid, Republicans are using terms such as “money ...

Last year, the government stopped cutting off people’s monthly Social Security benefits to claw back overpayments. Last week, under President Donald Trump, it reversed that change.