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- KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: On Capitol Hill, RFK Defends Firings at CDCon 05/09/2025 at 18:20
Just days after his firing of the brand-new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a defiant Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. secretary of health and human services, defended that action and others before a sometimes skeptical Senate Finance Committee. Criticism of Kennedy’s increasingly anti-vaccine actions came not just from Democrats on
- Trump Administration Investigates Medicaid Spending on Immigrants in Blue Statesby Angela Hart and Devi Shastri, The Associated Press on 05/09/2025 at 09:00
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hunting for Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse in at least six Democratic-led states that expanded coverage to low-income and disabled immigrants without legal status, according to records obtained by KFF Health News and The Associated Press.
- He Built Michigan’s Medicaid Work Requirement System. Now He’s Warning Other States.by Kate Wells, Michigan Public on 05/09/2025 at 09:00
Michigan’s former top health official spent a year and $30 million building a system to implement work requirements for Medicaid recipients. The difficulties he encountered have him worried about 40 states and Washington, D.C., having to launch such systems by 2027.
- RFK Jr. Faces Senate Finance Committee: A Live Discussion on 04/09/2025 at 18:30
KFF Health News’ Stephanie Armour, Julie Rovner, and Arthur Allen and KFF’s Josh Michaud discuss the biggest takeaways from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.
- Listen: Limiting Benefits and Adding Restrictions, ‘MAHA’ Reshapes Food Aidby Renuka Rayasam on 04/09/2025 at 09:00
The White House and congressional Republicans have made historic changes to the federal anti-hunger program SNAP. They say the changes will boost healthy eating for low-income Americans. Some nutrition experts aren’t so sure.