Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons – KFF Health News

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old son will kill or be killed. “That’s what…

Baltimore Drove Down Gun Deaths. Now Trump Has Slashed Funding for That Work. – KFF Health News

BALTIMORE — David Fitzgerald knows how tough it is to prevent gun violence. In 15 years…

Medicaid Health Plans Step Up Outreach Efforts Ahead of GOP Changes – KFF Health News

ORANGE, Calif. — Carmen Basu, bundled in a red jacket and woolly scarf, stood outside the…

State Exchange Directors Seeing Consumers’ Fears — In Real Time — About Obamacare Premium Hikes – KFF Health News

I’ve been checking on the progress of the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment season, which is…

Journalists Zero In on 'Certificate of Need' Laws and Turbulent Obamacare Enrollment Season – KFF Health News

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Scorpion Peppers Caused Him ‘Crippling’ Pain. Two Years Later, the ER Bill Stung Him Again. – KFF Health News

Maxwell Kruzic said he was in such “crippling” stomach pain on Oct. 5, 2023, that he…

Guns Marketed for Personal Safety Fuel Public Health Crisis in Black Communities – KFF Health News

Fred Clasen-Kelly and Daniel Chang PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation…

States Advance Medical Debt Protections as Federal Support Turns to Opposition – KFF Health News

Rae Ellen Bichell Lawmakers in several states are working to expand medical debt protections for patients,…

Las armas promovidas para la seguridad personal provocan una crisis de salud pública en comunidades negras – KFF Health News

PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, de 35 años, conoce por experiencia personal la devastación que puede causar…

Inside the FDA’s Vaccine Uproar – KFF Health News

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines…