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• HHS Secretary Grilled About Medicaid, CDC Firings, and Vaccines During Contentious Hearing

  September 05, 2025: During a tense hearing on Thursday, members of the Senate Finance Committee pressed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his position on a number of issues, including Medicare drug price negotiation, vaccine skepticism, recent firings at the Cen...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Social Security Praises Its New Chatbot. Ex-Officials Say It Was Tested But Shelved Under Biden.

  September 03, 2025: John McGing couldn’t reach a human. That might be business-as-usual in this economy, but it wasn’t business; he had called the Social Security Administration, where the questions often aren’t generic and the callers tend to be older, disabled, ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Breaking Down Why Medicare Part D Premiums Are Likely To Go Up

  August 15, 2025: Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to $50 a month — when they shop for next year’s coverage. Such drug plans are used by millions of people who enroll in what ...Read more >

• New Report: Social Security Administration Field Offices Lost An Estimated 20% of Staff This Year

  August 08, 2025: New reporting from Axios detailing the full extent of the Trump Administration’s workforce cuts in Social Security Administration field offices was published Thursday and shows how this is affecting Americans across the country. Axios analyzed a...Read more >

• Fight Dictatorship With Texas Retirees

  August 07, 2025: Texas retirees are fully participating in ongoing battles for democracy: Fight unfair redistricting Stand up for health care, nutrition, and Social Security Stop ageism by defending diversity, equity and inclusion It's Nationwide Battl...Read more >

• Social Security Administration Struggles to Provide Customer Service Amid Fallout from DOGE Cuts

  July 18, 2025: Months after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) fired thousands of experienced, hardworking Social Security Administration (SSA) workers, the agency is having trouble keeping up with calls to its 1-800 number, according to a rep...Read more >

• KFF Health News: How To Find the Right Medical Rehab Services

  July 15, 2025: Rehabilitation therapy can be a godsend after hospitalization for a stroke, a fall, an accident, a joint replacement, a severe burn, or a spinal cord injury, among other conditions. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy are offered in a variety ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: To Keep Medicaid, Mom Caring for Disabled Adult Son Faces Prospect of Proving She Works

  July 10, 2025: Four years before Kimberly Gallagher enrolled in Medicaid herself, the public health insurance program’s rules prompted her to make an excruciating choice — to give up guardianship of her son so she could work as his caregiver. Now, another pr...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Republican Megabill Will Mean Higher Health Costs for Many Americans

  July 03, 2025: President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts federal spending on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces by about $1 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, threatening the physical and ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

  June 18, 2025: On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Pregnant with her second child, she schleps a backpack instead of a traditional black bag to carry a laptop and ...Read more >