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Junk Food Turns Public Villain as Power Shifts in Washington

By Stephanie Armour and David Hilzenrath January 17, 2025

Some Trump insiders are ready to take on the food industry. It remains to be seen whether their entrée will result in any meaningful change in government oversight of “Big Food” — or in American health.

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': SCOTUS Ruling Strips Power From Federal Health Agencies

June 28, 2024

In what will certainly be remembered as a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has overruled a 40-year-old precedent that gave federal agencies, rather than judges, the power to interpret ambiguous laws passed by Congress. Administrative experts say the decision will dramatically change the way key health agencies do business. Also, the court decided not to decide whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care overrides Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Victoria Knight of Axios, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week they think you should read, too.

‘They Won’t Help Me’: Sickest Patients Face Insurance Denials Despite Policy Fixes

By Lauren Sausser March 31, 2025

The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson prompted both grief and public outrage about the ways insurers deny treatment. Republicans and Democrats agree prior authorization needs fixing, but patients are growing impatient.

Florida’s New Covid Booster Guidance Is Straight-Up Misinformation

By Arthur Allen and Daniel Chang and Sam Whitehead September 23, 2024

State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo spread more anti-vaccine misinformation by telling Floridians to avoid mRNA vaccines. Vaccine experts and historians can’t remember another state health leader urging residents to avoid an FDA-approved vaccine.

Trump Froze Out Project 2025 in His Campaign. Now Its Blueprint Is His Health Care Playbook.

By Stephanie Armour February 24, 2025

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from the conservative governing plan after Democratic attacks. But now it’s increasingly viewed as a blueprint for his administration’s plans for federal health programs.

Readers Weigh In on Making American Health Care Affordable Again

July 31, 2025

KFF Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

RFK Jr. Says Healthy Pregnant Women Don’t Need Covid Boosters. What the Science Says.

By Jackie Fortiér June 2, 2025

Despite opposition by the leader of the Department of Health and Human Services, existing evidence on the safety and efficacy of getting a covid vaccine during pregnancy all points the same way: The shots are important for maternal and fetal health.

The Covid ‘Contrarians’ Are in Power. We Still Haven’t Hashed Out Whether They Were Right.

By Arthur Allen February 19, 2025

Jay Bhattacharya, nominated to lead the National Institutes of Health, opposed most covid mandates. Without an honest public debate about what worked and what didn’t, public health experts say, we’re even less prepared for the next pandemic.

Suzanne Somers’ Legacy Tainted by Celebrity Medical Misinformation

By Liz Szabo October 18, 2023

The popular actress and author, who died this week, also can be remembered as a progenitor of selling dubious medical information to a trusting public.

RFK Jr.’s Campaign of Conspiracy Theories Is PolitiFact’s 2023 Lie of the Year

By Madison Czopek, PolitiFact and Katie Sanders, PolitiFact December 27, 2023

Debate and speculation are heating up over whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign will factor into the outcome of the 2024 election. But one thing is clear: Kennedy’s political following is built on a movement that seeks to legitimize conspiracy theories.

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