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Watch: Mark Cuban Says You Can’t Fix Healthcare Until Every Price Is Known
The ongoing debate over the U.S. health system shouldn’t be based on whether the government or the private sector is the dominant player, billionaire...
What Geriatric Emergency Departments Do Differently
It had been a rough few months. Cynthia Tompkins was hospitalized in May for osteomyelitis — a bone infection — then spent six weeks...
Gounder Brings Clarity to Egg Freezing, AI Virus Creation, and New Trump Vaccine Order
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed Americans’ skepticism toward public health experts and President Donald Trump’s executive order on childhood...
My Husband Was Kicked Out of Hospice for Dying Too Slowly
“No more operations,” he said.
It was mid-January 2026, and my then-73-year-old husband, Mike Salmon, had just started bouncing back from a three-month ordeal of...
They Worked To Protect Public Health. Now They Want the Public’s...
A handful of former public health officials are campaigning for top statewide offices across the country, testing whether their experience with covid and other...
Uninsured but Undaunted, a Surgical Patient Searched the Globe for a...
Around the end of last year, Ronmel Rangel, 63, began to feel a familiar discomfort in his lower abdomen. Twenty-five years earlier, while living...
Trump Administration Demands Hospitals Share Emergency Room Records
A tiny federal agency tasked with protecting the public from injuries caused by lawn mowers and coffeemakers is demanding that some of the nation’s...
Journalists Assess Risks of Tick Bites, Wildfire Smoke, Rising Health Costs
KFF Health News senior correspondent Julie Appleby discussed the affordability of Affordable Care Act health insurance plans on Connecticut Public’s The Wheelhouse on July...
A Death Revives Concerns About Police Brutality Six Years After National...
SIKESTON, Mo. — Not everyone at Lloyd Gilmore’s funeral knew him well. One woman, who had ironed her clothes two days in advance, said...
Severely Ill Prisoners Granted Early Release Are Left Stuck Behind Bars
ʻAIEA, Hawai‘i — Christian Alameda used a cane to push himself up out of bed in his cell at the Halawa Correctional Facility in...
