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Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the last time major Medicaid cuts slashed her budget. In the late 2000s, during the Great Recession, the pot of money she and other Medi-Cal recipients depend on to keep them out of costly residential care homes…

It’s a holy grail of health care: forcing the industry to reveal prices negotiated between health plans and hospitals — information that had long been treated as a trade secret. And among the flurry of executive orders President Donald Trump…

HENRICO, Va. — Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company. Sometimes, as the minutes tick by and her frustration mounts, Ekirch, 30, opens a meditation app on her phone. It was recommended by…

Tim Winard knew he needed to buy health insurance when he left his management job in manufacturing to launch his own business. It was the first time he had shopped around for coverage, searching for a plan that would cover…

Mari Villar was slammed by a car that jumped the curb, breaking her legs and collapsing a lung. Amy Paulo was in pain from a femur surgery that wasn’t healing properly. Katie Kriegshauser suffered organ failure during pregnancy, weakening her…

En las tierras altas boscosas del norte de Arkansas, donde los pueblos pequeños tienen pocos dentistas, los funcionarios del agua que atienden a más de 20.000 personas han desafiado abiertamente la ley estatal durante más de una década al negarse…

In the wooded highlands of northern Arkansas, where small towns have few dentists, water officials who serve more than 20,000 people have for more than a decade openly defied state law by refusing to add fluoride to the drinking water….

The National Institutes of Health employee said she knew things would be difficult for federal workers after Donald Trump was elected. But she never imagined it would be like this. Focused on Alzheimer’s and other dementia research, the worker is…

HELENA, Mont. — Mark Nay’s first client had lost the van she was living in and was struggling with substance use and medical conditions that had led to multiple emergency room visits. Nay helped her apply for Medicaid and food…

“On Feb. 25, I voted yes on a budget resolution that protects Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid while cutting some spending elsewhere.” Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.), in a YouTube video posted March 4, 2025 On Feb. 25, Rep. Nick LaLota…

PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a jumble of Medicaid rules that effectively prevent many people with disabilities from holding full-time jobs. “Which is…

While Congress considers potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, tribal health leaders are bracing for a crisis. Indian Country has a unique relationship to Medicaid, because the program helps tribes cover chronic funding shortfalls left by the Indian Health…

As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are bracing for catastrophe. That’s because more than 40% of the about…

The Senate Finance Committee got its chance March 14 to question Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the vast Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the largest agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. Oz, with…

(iStock/Getty Images) Spending cuts, immigration, and Medicaid are at the top of the Washington agenda. That climate provides fertile ground for misinformation and myths to multiply on social networks. Some of the most common are those surrounding immigrants, Latinos, and…

California’s Medicaid program has borrowed $3.4 billion from the state’s general fund — and will likely need even more — to cover ballooning health expenses for 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state Department of Finance disclosed…

The prospect of deep Medicaid cuts has become a flashpoint in Congress, with leaders of both parties accusing their counterparts of lying. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said Feb. 27 that a Republican budget measure would “set in motion the…

Note: “An Arm and a Leg” uses speech-recognition software to generate transcripts, which may contain errors. Please use the transcript as a tool but check the corresponding audio before quoting the podcast. Transcript: A medical-debt watchdog gets sidelined by the…

When congressional Republicans in 2017 pushed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and slash Medicaid, dozens of physician groups, patient advocates, hospitals, and others rallied to defend the law and the safety-net program. Eight years later, two industry groups have…

Kirk Vartan pays more than $2,000 a month for a high-deductible health insurance plan from Blue Shield on Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act marketplace. He could have selected a cheaper plan from a different provider, but he wanted…

The Trump administration issued its first major set of proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act on Monday that federal officials said are intended to crack down on fraud in the program. Policy experts said they will make it harder…

La administración Trump publicó el lunes 10 de marzo su primer conjunto importante de cambios propuestos a la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio (ACA). Funcionarios federales dicen que tienen como objetivo acabar con el fraude en el…

Jennifer Pahlka believes bolstering the government’s tech chops and depending less on contractors could save taxpayer dollars. However, as the Trump administration looks to slash spending, she worries that the Department of Government Efficiency’s “very indiscriminate” approach to date could…

In Washington’s debate over enacting steep funding cuts to Medicaid, words are a central battleground. Many Republican lawmakers and conservative policy officials who want to scale back the joint state-federal health program are using charged language to describe it. Language…

TUSTIN, California — Cynthia Williams está furiosa con los republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos que están dispuestos a recortar Medicaid, el programa de salud dirigido por el gobierno para personas de bajos ingresos o con discapacidades….

TUSTIN, Calif. — Cynthia Williams is furious with U.S. House Republicans willing to slash Medicaid, the government-run insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities. The 61-year-old Anaheim resident cares for her adult daughter, who is blind, and for…

Centene Plaza in St. Louis on Oct. 29, 2022. At least 20 states have settled with Centene Corp. over its pharmacy benefit manager operation that coordinated medications for Medicaid patients. (Bram Sable-Smith/KFF Health News) More than three years ago, health…

UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota, on Dec. 4. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) The Justice Department’s years-long court battle to force UnitedHealth Group to return billions of dollars in alleged Medicare Advantage overpayments hit a major setback Monday when a special master…

Chikao Tsubaki took part in a program called Community Aging in Place: Advancing Better Living for Elders, or CAPABLE, that helps people modify their homes and safely live independently as they age. In addition to an occupational therapist and a…

Jagdish Whitten was on a run in July 2023 when a car hit him as he crossed a busy San Francisco street. Whitten, then 25, described doing “a little flip” over the vehicle and landing in the street before getting…

It took nearly three years to win presumptive workers’ compensation coverage for breast, cervical, and other cancers that firefighters who work for federal agencies may develop because of hazardous exposures on the job. Now, just weeks after the Labor Department…

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Republicans in Congress have suggested big cuts to Medicaid. But what exactly is it? Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities, is integral to the U.S. health care system. It keeps hospitals and other…

Montana lawmakers appear ready to preserve the state’s Medicaid expansion program without knowing what federal changes might be in store. (Matt Volz/KFF Health News) HELENA, Mont. — Despite concerns about what Congress and the Trump administration might have planned for…

KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed the possibility of a bird flu pandemic on WAMU’s “1A” on Feb. 20. Gounder also discussed the potential of an off-label drug being studied to help some autistic kids improve…

Congressional lawmakers are facing tricky arithmetic as they hammer out a budget plan to finance President Donald Trump’s agenda.  Republicans need to free up roughly $4 trillion to pay for renewing Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which expire at the end…

En enero, durante una audiencia en el Congreso en su camino a convertirse en secretario del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dio información errónea sobre cuestiones básicas de Medicaid, un programa que ahora supervisa. …

Can’t see the audio player? Listen on: The Host The future of the Medicaid health insurance program for those with low incomes is in doubt, as Congress works on a budget plan calling for major cuts while President Donald Trump…

In January, during a congressional hearing on his way to becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got basic details wrong about Medicaid — a program he now oversees. He said that Medicaid…

When Colleen Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a urinary tract infection or constipation, common maladies in the potty-training years. After being told her health insurance wouldn’t cover an ultrasound, Henderson…

Collection agents for the state of Iowa have sent letters seeking millions of dollars from the estates of at least two people with disabilities who died after spending most of their lives in a state institution. The amounts represent what…

McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — Each month, Michelle Shaw went to a pain clinic to get the shots that made her back feel worse — so she could get the pills that made her back feel better. Shaw, 56, who has been…

Nothing sweeps us off our feet like a health policy valentine. Readers showed their love this season, writing poetic lines about surprise medical bills, bird flu, the cost of health care, and more.  Here are some of our favorites, starting…

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House sent a clear signal about Medicaid to Republicans across the country: Requiring enrollees to prove they are working, volunteering, or going to school is back on the table. The day after Trump’s…

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House sent a clear signal about Medicaid to Republicans across the country: Requiring enrollees to prove they are working, volunteering, or going to school is back on the table. The day after Trump’s…

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House sent a clear signal about Medicaid to Republicans across the country: Requiring enrollees to prove they are working, volunteering, or going to school is back on the table. The day after Trump’s…

Valentino Valdez recibió su certificado de nacimiento, su tarjeta de Seguro Social, una camiseta y pantalones color caqui cuando salió de una prisión de Texas en 2019, a los 21 años. Pero no tenía seguro médico, medicamentos para sus afecciones…

Valentino Valdez was given his birth certificate, his Social Security card, a T-shirt, and khaki pants when he was released from a Texas prison in 2019 at age 21. But he didn’t have health insurance, mental health medications, or access…

Montana legislators are considering a bill that would eliminate the Board of Public Assistance, which hears appeals from people whose applications for Medicaid, food aid, and other government assistance were rejected. (Matt Volz/KFF Health News) Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration…

The SuperSuds Laundromat in Suitland, Maryland, is one of several laundromats in the Washington, D.C., area where Fabric Health workers help people, particularly those enrolled in Medicaid, with their health insurance needs. (Phil Galewitz/KFF Health News) SUITLAND, Md. — At…

Gloria Sachdev has spent years challenging the health care industry, trying to bring down the high cost of care. It’s working, even in an unlikely place: Indiana, which has had some of the nation’s highest hospital prices. Over the past…

During her annual OB-GYN visit, Callie Anderson asked about getting off the birth control pill. “We decided the best option for me was an IUD,” she said, referring to an intrauterine device, a long-acting, reversible type of birth control. Anderson,…

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on Jan. 23. A sweeping Trump administration order threw the nation’s health system into disarray Tuesday, as states and the health industry tried to make sense…

Covered California, el mercado de seguros de salud del estado, ha alcanzado un récord de 1,8 millones de inscritos y la cifra podría aumentar aún más antes de la fecha límite de inscripción abierta del 31 de enero, debido en…

Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, has hit a record 1.8 million enrollees and the number could climb higher ahead of a Jan. 31 open enrollment deadline, due in large part to enhanced subsidies that have made plans more…

Can’t see the audio player? Listen on: The Host Incoming President Donald Trump’s inauguration is Monday, yet the new GOP-led Congress is already rushing to work his priorities into legislation, eyeing cuts to Medicaid to pay for new tax and…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the nation braces for potential policy shifts under President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” mantra, the nation’s most populous state and largest health care market is preparing for a few changes of its own. With…

Back to all blog list Published on January 16, 2025 Missed the January 15 deadline for 2025 Marketplace Open Enrollment? Don’t worry—you may still have options for health coverage for the rest of the year.  Enroll with a Special Enrollment…

Durante la presidencia de Joe Biden, la inscripción en Medicaid alcanzó un nivel récord y la tasa de personas sin seguro médico llegó a su nivel histórico más bajo. Pero se espera que el regreso de Donald Trump a la…

President-elect Donald Trump on Aug. 21. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images) Under President Joe Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low. Donald Trump’s return to the White House — along with a…

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Can’t see the audio player? Listen on: The Host The new, GOP-led, 119th Congress and President-elect Donald Trump have big legislative plans for the year — which mostly don’t include health policy. But health is likely to play an important…

HELENA, Mont. — A last-minute change to a 2019 bill put an end date on Montana’s Medicaid expansion program, setting the stage for what is anticipated to be the most significant health care debate of the 2025 Montana Legislature. In…

Back to all blog list Published on January 8, 2025 Time’s almost up to get health coverage for 2025. Act before January 15 to enroll in health coverage that starts February 1.  Enroll in health coverage now that meets your…

SACRAMENTO, California.— Seis años después de asumir el cargo prometiendo ser el “gobernador de la salud” de California, el demócrata Gavin Newsom ha destinado decenas de miles de millones de dólares de fondos públicos a servicios de la red de…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six years after he entered office vowing to be California’s “health care governor,” Democrat Gavin Newsom has steered tens of billions in public funding to safety net services for the state’s neediest residents while engineering rules to…

When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options in 2023, he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs. Adams, 51, lost his right leg to cancer 40 years ago, and he has worn out more legs than he…

Back to all blog list Published on December 15, 2024 Do you hear that? It’s the clock ticking towards the January 15 deadline. You still have time to apply for, renew, or change 2025 health insurance. Notice: Note these important…

Back to all blog list Published on December 12, 2024 To start your new 2025 Marketplace coverage, pay the first premium. This is the amount you pay every month to the health insurance company to keep your coverage. How to…

Published on December 5, 2024 Don’t wait—time is running out! The December 15 deadline to apply, renew, or make changes for Marketplace coverage starting January 1 is fast approaching. Take action now to ensure you don’t experience any gaps in…

Published on December 1, 2024 Apply for, renew, or change your Marketplace plan by December 15 to make sure your coverage starts January 1.   Already have Marketplace coverage?Whether you want to keep your current coverage or you’re ready for a…

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Back to all blog list Published on November 7, 2024 Before you apply, check out 2025 coverage options in the Marketplace and get an idea if you qualify for savings. Answer a few quick questions to preview plans and prices…

Back to all blog list Published on November 1, 2024 Don’t delay — enroll today! Open Enrollment for 2025 health insurance is here. Enroll in a new plan or change your coverage for the year ahead. Notice: Enroll by December…

Back to all blog list Published on October 24, 2024 Jump start for 2025 coverage by previewing plans with personalized price estimates based on your estimated income and household size.  Preview personalized 2025 plans & pricesTake a sneak peek at 2025…

We take your privacy seriously. You can change the settings for each category to choose how we collect and use information while you’re on HealthCare.gov. For details, review our full privacy policy or get the list of specific tools in…

We take your privacy seriously. You can change the settings for each category to choose how we collect and use information while you’re on HealthCare.gov. For details, review our full privacy policy or get the list of specific tools in…

We take your privacy seriously. You can change the settings for each category to choose how we collect and use information while you’re on HealthCare.gov. For details, review our full privacy policy or get the list of specific tools in…

We take your privacy seriously. You can change the settings for each category to choose how we collect and use information while you’re on HealthCare.gov. For details, review our full privacy policy or get the list of specific tools in…

We take your privacy seriously. You can change the settings for each category to choose how we collect and use information while you’re on HealthCare.gov. For details, review our full privacy policy or get the list of specific tools in…

Back to all blog list Published on August 8, 2024 Be careful of people who may try to steal your personal information, trick you into paying them, or enroll you in coverage without your consent.   Ask yourself 3 questions before…

Back to all blog list Published on July 25, 2024 Some life changes can affect your coverage and how much you save on your Marketplace plan. If you have a life change, like moving or getting married, let us know…

Back to all blog list Published on July 11, 2024 All Marketplace health insurance plans must cover 10 categories of essential health benefits. Essential health benefits are minimum requirements for all Marketplace plans. Specific services covered in each category may…

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Skip to main content An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Back to all blog list Published on June 13, 2024 When a new baby arrives, you have a for health coverage. You have 60…

Back to all blog list Published on May 30, 2024 You have health insurance options if you lose Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage. 4 ways to stay covered1.  Get a Marketplace health plan. Most people qualify for…

Back to all blog list Published on May 16, 2024 Health insurance can protect you at any age.  4 health insurance options for young adults:Your college or university: If you’re in school, you can enroll in a student health plan.A…

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Back to all blog list Preventive services you don’t want to skip Published on April 18, 2024 Put your health first – get free preventive services. Screenings, check-ups, counseling, and keeping a healthy lifestyle can help you avoid more serious…

Back to all blog list Published on April 4, 2024 How to “reconcile” your tax creditIf you (or anyone in your household) qualified for or used the premium tax credit to lower your Marketplace plan premium at any point in…

Back to all blog list Published on March 21, 2024 You may be able to enroll in or change your Marketplace plan outside of Open Enrollment. Life events or changes may open a Special Enrollment Period for you.  What kinds…

Back to all blog list Published on March 7, 2024 The tax filing deadline is April 15, 2024. If anyone in your household had a Marketplace plan in 2023, use Form 1095-A, Health Insurance Marketplace®, to file your federal taxes….

Back to all blog list Published on February 22, 2024 If you had Marketplace coverage at any point in 2023 and got the , here’s what you need to know about filing your federal taxes.  Keep your Form 1095-A in a safe…

Back to all blog list Published on February 9, 2024 Get the most out of your Marketplace coverage with answers to some common questions, like how to use your coverage and what’s covered.  How do I use my coverage? What’s covered? All…

Published on January 25, 2024 Did someone in your household have a Marketplace plan in 2023?  When you file your taxes, you’ll need Form 1095-A, Health Insurance Marketplace® Statement. This form comes from the Marketplace, not the IRS. 1. Find your…

Skip to main content An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Back to all blog list Published on January 5, 2024 Time is running out – your window to apply for, renew, or change your…