They Harvest the Nationās Food, but a New Rule May Strip Them of Health Insurance
New Medicaid work requirements could make a complex system even harder for farmworkers to navigate.
Chronic Disease Care
1-20 of 212 results
-
-
She Struggled To Get a Lifesaving Drug Even After Insurers Vowed To Help
Margaret Hvatum ended up in the hospital after her insurer denied coverage of a medicine she relies on to boost her immune system. Hvatum got entangled in the preapproval process, which the insurance industry has vowed to improve.
-
Festering Infections to Untreated Cancer: ICE Detainees Describe Medical Neglect Across US
Immigrant detainees have told courts across the nation that detention officials have failed to treat or stabilize their conditions, from pregnancy to prostate cancer, suggesting that systemic lapses in care extend well beyond record deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
-
Kennedy Swaps Vaccine Rhetoric for Story Time but Canāt Quite Change the Subject
Get our weekly newsletter, The Week in Brief, featuring a roundup of our original coverage, Fridays at 2 p.m. ET.
By Amanda Seitz -
She Survived 2 Shootings. Research Helps Explain Why HerĀ Pain Persists Years Later.
Witnessing a shooting, hearing gunfire, losing someone, or living in a violent area can leave people with chronic pain and stress long afterward.
-
Rural Nebraska Dialysis Unit Closes Despite the Stateās $219M in Rural Health Funding
A rural Nebraska dialysis unit that was hemorrhaging money closed, upending patientsā lives. Thatās despite a federal rural health program that granted the state more than $200 million this year to improve health care in rural communities.
-
āKind of Morbidā: Health Premiums Threaten Their Nest Egg. A Terminal Diagnosis May Spare It.
Chaz and Jean Franklin were facing a sevenfold increase in their health premium payments with the expiration of enhanced federal subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans at the end of 2025. Then Jean received a crushing diagnosis that will claim her life but save the couple money.
-
Medicaid Tries New Approach With Sickle Cell: Companies Get Paid Only if Costly Gene Therapies Work
The government is using sickle cell treatments to test a new strategy: paying only if the therapies benefit patients. With more expensive treatments on the horizon, the program ā created by the Biden administration and continued under President Trump ā could help Medicaid save money and treat more patients.
-
Washingtonās Homeless Hide in Plain Sight, Growing Sicker and Costing Taxpayers More
The White House says encampment sweeps have enhanced the capital, but city leaders estimate nearly 700 homeless people roam by day and bed down outdoors by night. Some have scattered to the suburbs while others avoid detection, making it hard for medical providers to care for them.
By Angela Hart -
While Politicos Dispense Blame, These Doctors Aim To Take Shame Out of Medicine
Clinicians and researchers are starting to embrace an effort to develop whatās known as āshame competenceā in physicians to combat burnout and prevent that uncomfortable emotion from being passed along to patients.
-
The Nationās Largest Food Aid Program Is About To See Cuts. Hereās What You Should Know.
The federal government is making sweeping changes to SNAP, the program that helped feed about 42 million people in the U.S. last year. Hereās a breakdown of the changes to come and potential impacts.
-
Readers Weigh In on Making American Health Care Affordable Again
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
-
Chronically Ill? In Kennedyās View, It Might Be Your Own Fault
In their zeal to āMake America Healthy Again,ā top Trump administration officials depict patients and the doctors who treat them as partly responsible for whatever ails them.
-
Cuts to Food Benefits Stand in the Way of RFK Jr.ās Goals for a Healthier National Diet
The Trump administration has said improving American nutrition is a priority, but deep cuts to federal food assistance could lead people to forgo healthy food in favor of cheaper alternatives.
-
Trump Teamās Actions on Health Policy Clash With Its āMAHA Reportā
Get our weekly newsletter, The Week in Brief, featuring a roundup of our original coverage, Fridays at 2 p.m. ET.
-
āMAHA Reportā Calls for Fighting Chronic Disease, but Trump and Kennedy Have Yanked Funding
Scientists and public health advocates see disconnects between what the Trump administration says about health ā notably, in its āMAHA Reportā ā and what itās actually doing.
-
Trump Teamās Reworking Delays Billions in Broadband Build-Out
A Trump administration reworking of a $42 billion broadband expansion program will trigger delays as millions of rural Americans wait for promised connections and the telehealth services they bring.
-
āWe Dissentā: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That āHarm the Health of Americansā
A letter signed by more than 300 National Institutes of Health workers ā some still working, others who were fired this year ā is an extraordinary public rebuke of actions taken under Director Jay Bhattacharya and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
-
Native Americans Hurt by Federal Health Cuts, Despite RFK Jr.ās Promises of Protection
The Indian Health Service was mostly spared in the federal governmentās widespread staffing cuts, but tribal governments and organizations have lost funding elsewhere in the melee of federal health agency cuts.
-
Trump Policies at Odds With āMake America Healthy Againā Push
On the surface, President Donald Trump embraced the MAHA movement with a pledge to end the nationās high rates of chronic disease. But the broader Trump agenda may prove to be the biggest barrier this effort confronts.