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- Journalists Assess Health Impacts of Trump’s Megabill, Who Will Feel Them, and Whenon July 5, 2025 at 9:00 am
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and regional media this week to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
- KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Supreme Court Upholds Bans on Gender-Affirming Careon June 20, 2025 at 6:20 pm
The Supreme Court this week said Tennessee may continue to enforce its law banning most types of gender-affirming care for minors. The ruling is likely to greenlight similar laws in two dozen states. And the Senate is preparing to vote on a budget reconciliation bill that includes even deeper Medicaid cuts than the House version. Victoria Knight of Axios, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.
- In Axing mRNA Contract, Trump Delivers Another Blow to US Biosecurity, Former Officials Sayby Amy Maxmen on June 6, 2025 at 2:00 pm
The Trump administration is eroding national pandemic flu defenses as it guts health agencies, cuts research and health budgets, and withdraws funding for bird flu vaccines, health security experts said.
- Two Patients Faced Chemo. The One Who Survived Demanded a Test To See if It Was Safe.by Arthur Allen on June 4, 2025 at 9:00 am
Worried that President Donald Trump’s FDA might not act, a panel of cancer experts recommended that doctors consider testing before dosing patients with a commonly used but sometimes deadly cancer drug. It came too late for many patients.
- How Trump Aims To Slash Federal Support for Research, Public Health, and Medicaid by Elisabeth Rosenthal on May 20, 2025 at 9:00 am
One thing experts agree on: The damage from the funding cuts will be varied and immense.
- Trump Exaggerates Speed and Certainty of Prescription Drug Price Reductionsby Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact on May 20, 2025 at 9:00 am
According to the timeline in the May 12 executive order, prescription drug price reductions would not happen "almost immediately,” but rather could take months or years. And extending the savings to Americans outside federal health insurance programs such as Medicare would likely require congressional action.
- Pharmacists Stockpile Most Common Drugs on Chance of Targeted Trump Tariffsby Jackie Fortiér and Arthur Allen on May 16, 2025 at 9:00 am
While Big Pharma seems ready to weather the tariff storm, independent pharmacists and makers of generic drugs — which account for 90% of U.S. prescriptions — see trouble ahead for patients.
- KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': GOP Tries To Cut Billions in Health Benefitson May 15, 2025 at 7:15 pm
GOP-controlled House committees approved parts of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” this week, including more than $700 billion in cuts to health programs over the next decade — mostly from Medicaid, which covers people with low incomes or disabilities. Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before Congress for the first time since taking office and told lawmakers that Americans shouldn’t take medical advice from him. Julie Appleby of KFF Health News, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.
- Pain Clinic CEO Faced 20 Years for Making Patients ‘Human Pin Cushions.’ He Got 18 Months.by Brett Kelman on May 15, 2025 at 3:18 pm
Michael Kestner, CEO of Pain MD, was convicted of 13 fraud felonies after his company gave patients hundreds of thousands of questionable injections at clinics in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina.
- Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeakby Paula Span on May 9, 2025 at 9:00 am
A new training program teaches workers to stop the baby talk and address older people as adults.