Trump’s budget will actively harm the health and incomes of rural communities and Republican voters, well beyond those who ...

A new working paper from the University of Chicago provides the strongest evidence to date that expanding access to health insurance can save lives.

The CDC reports that fatal overdoses dropped 27% in 2024. Progress has been made, but proposed budget cuts may hamper future ...

The Republican senator sparked a controversy with her rhetoric about her party's proposed Medicaid cuts. A follow-up video ...

The mortality debate unleashed by Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst continued Sunday as Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., clapped ...

The outrage over the senator’s glib response to concerns about Medicaid cuts was immediate. Then, Ernst doubled down on her ...

The remark came as demonstrators pressed Joni Ernst on the impact that proposed reductions could have on vulnerable populations.

Together, public health leaders said, the cuts are reducing the entire system to a shadow of what it once was, threatening to ...

In the wee hours of Thursday, May 22, House Republicans pushed through President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” a proposal that dramatically cuts Medicaid, in part by imposing strict work ...

Well, it looks as though my old pal, Joni Ernst, the junior senator from Iowa, had a bit of a time with the home folk at her ...

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...