Wary of RFK Jr., Colorado Started Revamping Its Vaccine Policies in the Spring
Amid concerns that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is undermining trust in vaccines and public health science, some states are seeking new sources of scientific consensus and changing how they regulate insurance companies, prescribers, and pharmacists. Colorado has been at the front of this wave.
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Why Democrats Are Casting the Government Shutdown as a Health Care Showdown
Democrats are pressuring Republicans to extend billions of dollars in federal tax credits that have dramatically lowered premiums and contributed to record-low rates of uninsured Americans. It’s a chance to talk about a winning issue — and maybe regain support from working-class voters.
Inside the High-Stakes Battle Over Vaccine Injury Compensation, Autism, and Public Trust
The evidence is unequivocal: Vaccines do not cause autism. Yet adding autism to the list of conditions covered by a federal payout program, as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seems inclined to do, could threaten its financial viability. Such a move also would suggest that the science is unsettled, that vaccines may be riskier than diseases, which is a fallacy.
GOP Falsely Ties Shutdown to Democrats’ Alleged Drive To Give All Immigrants Health Care
Immigrants living in the U.S. without legal status are generally ineligible for federally funded health care programs. Democrats’ funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplace for legal immigrants who will lose access once certain provisions of the Republicans’ tax and spending law take effect.
Nuclear Missile Workers Are Contracting Cancer. They Blame the Bases.
Health Centers Face Risks as Government Funding Lapses
Workers’ Wages Siphoned To Pay Medical Bills, Despite Consumer Protections
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Democrats Make This Shutdown About the ACA
‘Demon Copperhead’ Author Lays Foundation for Women in Appalachia To Beat Addiction
At Least 170 US Hospitals Face Major Flood Risk. Experts Say Trump Is Making It Worse.
Shutdown Halts Some Health Services as Political Risks Test Parties’ Resolve
An Arm and a Leg: The Struggle To Afford Insurance in 2026 Hits Home
Investigation: The Body Shops
Doctors With Troubled Pasts Are Performing Cosmetic Surgeries Tied to Crippling Pain and Injury
Some injured patients say they wish they had tried harder to check the backgrounds of doctors and clinics they trusted, but those records are hard to find.
