A funding notice for Title X shifts the program’s emphasis from contraception to fertility, family formation, and addressing conditions that could cause infertility, including endometriosis. Experts say these priorities overlook key demographic trends, epidemiology, prevention of unwanted pregnancies, and the nation's high maternal mortality.
Starting next year, about 18.5 million adults will be subject to new Medicaid work rules in 42 states and Washington, D.C. Applicants must show they’ve been working for at least a month before receiving benefits. Some Republican-controlled states want to triple the required work period.
A KFF Health News analysis found Medi-Cal lost almost 100,000 immigrants without legal status in the second half of 2025. California officials say it’s not clear if immigrants are losing coverage faster than other populations, but researchers said the most obvious driver is fear of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
A rural Nebraska dialysis unit that was hemorrhaging money closed, upending patients’ lives. That’s despite a federal rural health program that granted the state more than $200 million this year to improve health care in rural communities.
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El gobierno federal no lleva un registro de cuántos niños han ingresado a este sistema como consecuencia de operativos de control migratorio, lo que dificulta saber con qué frecuencia ocurre.
Los planes con deducibles altos pueden ser un problema si la persona necesita atención médica constante o sufre un crisis de salud inesperada.
Más de 5 millones de personas son admitidas cada año en terapias intensivas en unos 5.000 hospitales en Estados Unidos, y las investigaciones muestran que más de la mitad experimenta estos efectos secundarios. La edad avanzada aumenta las probabilidades.
Las agencias estatales de Medicaid pueden tener dificultades para mantener suficiente personal que ayude a las personas a inscribirse en los beneficios. La salud puede estar en peligro.
As President Donald Trump’s heightened immigration enforcement continues across the country, some states are updating temporary guardianship laws to keep the children of detained and deported immigrants out of state custody.
