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• KFF Health News: Even Patients Are Shocked by the Prices Their Insurers Will Pay — And It Costs All of Us

  March 03, 2026: Samantha Smith of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, went into the operating room for emergency removal of an ectopic pregnancy. “I’m grateful I didn’t die,” she said, but she was shocked to see that the outpatient surgery was billed to her insurer fo...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Red and Blue States Alike Want To Limit AI in Insurance. Trump Wants To Limit the States.

  February 18, 2026: It’s the rare policy question that unites Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and the Democratic-led Maryland government against President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California: How should health insurers use AI? Regulating artifi...Read more >

• KFF Health News: New Medicaid Work Rules Likely To Hit Middle-Aged Adults Hard

  February 11, 2026: Lori Kelley’s deteriorating vision has made it hard for her to find steady work. The 59-year-old, who lives in Harrisburg, North Carolina, closed her nonprofit circus arts school last year because she could no longer see well enough to complete ...Read more >

• Care Can’t Wait: Why Illinois Retirees Are Demanding a Care Economy That Works

  February 06, 2026: [gallery columns="1" ids="1309"] For generations, Illinois retirees have fought for Social Security, Medicare, and the basic promise that after a lifetime of work, people deserve to age with dignity. Today, that fight must expand. A strong public ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Solving the Home Care Quandary

  January 08, 2026: You’re ready to leave the hospital, but you don’t feel able to care for yourself at home yet. Or, you’ve completed a couple of weeks in rehab. Can you handle your complicated medication regimen, along with shopping and cooking? Perhaps yo...Read more >

• KFF Health News: One Big Beautiful Bill Act Complicates State Health Care Affordability Efforts

  December 16, 2025: As Congress debates whether to extend the temporary federal subsidies that have helped millions of Americans buy health coverage, a crucial underlying reality is sometimes overlooked: Those subsidies are merely a band-aid covering the often unafforda...Read more >

• KFF Health News – Sticker Shock: Obamacare Customers Confront Premium Spikes as Congress Dithers

  December 12, 2025: We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act. But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried. Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt.

  December 09, 2025: Sarah Monroe once had a relatively comfortable middle-class life. She and her family lived in a neatly landscaped neighborhood near Cleveland. They had a six-figure income and health insurance. Then, four years ago, when Monroe was pregnant with t...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Health Savings Accounts, Backed by GOP, Cover Fancy Saunas but Not Insurance Premiums

  December 05, 2025: With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop. Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for most baby formulas...Read more >

• KFF Health News: As Health Companies Get Bigger, So Do the Bills. It’s Unclear if Trump’s Team Will Intervene.

  November 10, 2025: A cancer patient might live in a town with four oncology groups, but only one accepts his insurance — the one owned by his insurer. A young couple could see huge bills after their child is born, because their insurer agreed to the health system’s...Read more >