Category: Insurance

Medicaid Advocates Say Critics Use Loaded Terms To Gain Edge in Congressional Debate

As policymakers in Washington debate potentially steep funding cuts to Medicaid, Republicans are using terms such as “money laundering” and “discrimination” to make their case. Language experts and Medicaid advocates say their word choice is misleading and designed to sway the public against the popular program.

To Patients, Parents, and Caregivers, Proposed Medicaid Cuts Are a Personal Affront

At a town hall in Orange County, California, angry residents said Congress should keep its hands off Medicaid. The cuts contemplated in a House budget blueprint would bore a giant hole in California’s version of the safety net health insurance program, Medi-Cal, which covers nearly 15 million residents.

UnitedHealth Wins Ruling Over $2B in Alleged Medicare Advantage Overpayments

A special master found the Justice Department failed to prove wrongdoing by the giant health insurer.

A Runner Was Hit by a Car, Then by a Surprise Ambulance Bill

A San Francisco man had friends drive him to the hospital after he was hit by a car. Doctors checked him out, then sent him by ambulance to a trauma center — which released him with no further treatment. The ambulance bill? Almost $13,000.

Future of Cancer Coverage for Women Federal Firefighters Uncertain Under Trump

In the waning days of the Biden administration, the Labor Department added ovarian, uterine, cervical, and breast cancer coverage for wildland firefighters. It’s unclear whether the new protections will stick under Trump.

Watch: What Is Medicaid, Again?

KFF Health News correspondent Sam Whitehead discusses Medicaid’s history and role in the U.S. health system.

Watch: What Is Medicaid, Again?

KFF Health News correspondent Sam Whitehead discusses Medicaid’s history and role in the U.S. health system.

Montana’s Medicaid Expansion Conundrum

State lawmakers appear ready to preserve the state’s Medicaid expansion program without knowing what federal changes might be in store.

Montana’s Medicaid Expansion Conundrum

State lawmakers appear ready to preserve the state’s Medicaid expansion program without knowing what federal changes might be in store.

KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Medicaid in the Crosshairs, Maybe

President Donald Trump has said he won’t support major cuts to the Medicaid health insurance program for people with low incomes, but he has endorsed a House budget plan that calls for major cuts, leaving the program’s future in doubt. Meanwhile, thousands of workers at the Department of Health and Human Services were fired over the holiday weekend, from the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with possibly more cuts to come.

Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.