Sticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers
We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act. But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open…
What the Health? From KFF Health News: Crunch Time for ACA Tax Credits
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What…
Health Care Consolidation and Rising Costs Happen, but Obamacare Is Not the Key Culprit
In a recent Meet the Press appearance, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) joined a growing number of Republicans who are speaking out against Obamacare. One of his lines of attack: that…
Plan-Switching, Sign-Up Impersonations: Obamacare Enrollment Fraud Persists
Florida resident Keith Jones says his Affordable Care Act insurance plan was changed multiple times this year without his permission. Now the 52-year-old is struggling with his health problems while…
Out-of-Pocket Pain From High-Deductible Plans Means Skimping on Care
David Garza sometimes feels as if he doesn’t have health insurance now that he pays so much to treat his Type 2 diabetes. His monthly premium payment of $435 for…
Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried. Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt.
Sarah Monroe once had a relatively comfortable middle-class life. She and her family lived in a neatly landscaped neighborhood near Cleveland. They had a six-figure income and health insurance. Then,…
Watch: What Do Republicans Really Want on Health Care?
On What the Health? From KFF Health News, distributed by WAMU, chief Washington correspondent and host Julie Rovner sat down with Avik Roy, a GOP health policy adviser, to talk…
Journalists Dig Into Maine HIV Outbreak and Ever-Closer End to Enhanced ACA Subsidies
KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed Maine’s largest HIV outbreak to date, including the challenges in tracking transmission and treating people with the virus, on The Johns Hopkins…
Republicans Left Tribes Out of Their $50B Rural Fund. Now It’s Up to States To Share.
The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care. But the government made minimal mention of Native American…
Aunque se reanuda SNAP, nuevas reglas laborales amenazan el acceso al programa de alimentos por años
Alejandro Santillan-Garcia teme perder la ayuda que le permite comprar comida. El residente de Austin, de 20 años, calificó el año pasado para recibir beneficios federales de alimentos porque salió…