Housing, Nutrition in Peril as Trump Pulls Back Medicaid Social Services
By Angela Hart
About half of states have broadened Medicaid, the state-federal low-income health care program, to pay for social services such as housing and nutritional support. The Trump administration, however, views these experiments as distractions from the core mission to provide health care.
Trump retira servicios sociales de Medicaid, y pone en peligro la nutrición y la alimentación
By Angela Hart
Sin hogar ni alimentos saludables, las personas corren el riesgo de enfermarse más, quedarse sin hogar y experimentar aún más dificultades para controlar afecciones crónicas como la diabetes y las enfermedades cardíacas.
Los hospitales que atienden partos en zonas rurales están cada vez más lejos de las embarazadas
By Arielle Zionts
Más de un centenar de hospitales rurales han dejado de atender partos desde 2021, según el Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. El cierre de los servicios de obstetricia se suele achacar a la falta de personal y la falta de presupuesto.
Daily Edition for Friday, May 16, 2025
Group Asks State To Pay For Post-Fire Soil Testing: Environmental researchers are calling on the Newsom administration to pay for soil testing at thousands of homes destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires. They are imploring officials not to abandon the state’s wildfire-recovery protocols, namely the policy to conduct soil sampling. Federal disaster agencies have refused to do that work. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.
In Bustling NYC Federal Building, HHS Offices Are Eerily Quiet
By Michelle Andrews and Eliza Fawcett, Healthbeat
Public health experts and advocates say that Health and Human Services regional offices, like the one in New York City, form the connective tissue between the federal government and locally based services.
Even Where Abortion Is Still Legal, Many Brick-and-Mortar Clinics Are Closing
By Kate Wells, Michigan Public
Some clinics that provide abortions are closing, even in states where voters have passed some of the nation’s broadest abortion protections. It’s happening in places like New York, Illinois, and Michigan, as reproductive health care faces new financial pressures.
Double Blow: Drug Tariffs and Wage Hikes Threaten California’s Pharmacies
By Jackie Fortiér and Arthur Allen
While Big Pharma seems ready to weather the tariff storm, independent pharmacists and makers of generic drugs — which account for 90% of U.S. prescriptions — see trouble ahead for patients.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': GOP Tries To Cut Billions in Health Benefits
GOP-controlled House committees approved parts of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” this week, including more than $700 billion in cuts to health programs over the next decade — mostly from Medicaid, which covers people with low incomes or disabilities. Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before Congress for the first time since taking office and told lawmakers that Americans shouldn’t take medical advice from him. Julie Appleby of KFF Health News, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.
Pain Clinic CEO Faced 20 Years for Making Patients ‘Human Pin Cushions.’ He Got 18 Months.
By Brett Kelman
Michael Kestner, CEO of Pain MD, was convicted of 13 fraud felonies after his company gave patients hundreds of thousands of questionable injections at clinics in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Daily Edition for Thursday, May 15, 2025
GOP 'Megabill' Will Hurt California’s Budget, Lawmakers Warn: Republicans are still negotiating how they plan to trim hundreds of billions from federal health care and environmental programs, but it appears that it will come at the cost of California’s budget. This legislation “rips massive holes in states’ budgets that are near impossible to fill,” said Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle. Keep scrolling for more on the GOP’s “megabill” and the potential cuts to Medicaid.
