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- Listen to the Latest ‘KFF Health News Minute’on 17/06/2025 at 14:00
“Health Minute” brings original health care and health policy reporting from the KFF Health News newsroom to the airwaves each week.
- ‘MAGA’ Backers Like Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ — Until They Learn of Health Consequencesby Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News on 17/06/2025 at 09:00
A new poll finds that most adults oppose the GOP bill that would extend many of President Donald Trump’s tax cuts while reducing spending on domestic programs including Medicaid. Most Trump backers support the plan until they learn that millions would lose health coverage and local hospitals would lose funding.
- The Price You Pay for an Obamacare Plan Could Surge Next Yearby Daniel Chang on 17/06/2025 at 09:00
An estimated 4 million Americans will lose health insurance over the next decade if Congress doesn’t extend enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage, which expire at the end of the year. Florida and Texas would see the biggest losses, in part because they have not expanded Medicaid eligibility.
- A Revolutionary Drug for Extreme Hunger Offers Clues to Obesity’s Complexityby Claire Sibonney on 16/06/2025 at 09:00
A new drug is helping families who’ve spent years padlocking fridges, chaining garbage cans, and hiding food as their children with Prader-Willi syndrome deal with unrelenting hunger. But additional progress — and a broader understanding of obesity — is now under threat as the government dismantles the pipeline for promising new research.
- ‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Optionsby Lauren Sausser on 16/06/2025 at 09:00
Health insurers issue millions of prior authorization denials every year, leaving many patients stuck in a convoluted appeals process, with little hope of meaningful policy change ahead. For doctors, these denials are frustrating and time-consuming. For patients, they can be devastating.