Workplace Mental Health at Risk as Key Federal Agency Faces Cuts
In Connecticut, construction workers in the Local 478 union who complete addiction treatment are connected with a recovery coach who checks in daily, attends recovery…
Category: The Force for Health® Active Communities
In a Nation Growing Hostile Toward Drugs and Homelessness, Los Angeles Tries Leniency
LOS ANGELES — Inside a bright new building in the heart of Skid Row, homeless people hung out in a canopy-covered courtyard — some waiting…
States Brace for Reversal of Obamacare Coverage Gains Under Trump’s Budget Bill
Shorter enrollment periods. More paperwork. Higher premiums. The sweeping tax and spending bill pushed by President Donald Trump includes provisions that would not only reshape…
KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Trump’s Bill Reaches the Finish Line
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly…
Arizona’s Public Health & Highway Safety Agencies Warn of the Dangers of Alcohol-Drug-Impaired Driving
This Independence Day, Arizona’s State public health and highway safety agencies are collectively warning drivers about the deadly consequences of a…
GOP Governors Mum as Congress Prepares To Slash Medicaid Spending for Their States
The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way:…
To Keep Medicaid, Mom Caring for Disabled Adult Son Faces Prospect of Proving She Works
Four years before Kimberly Gallagher enrolled in Medicaid herself, the public health insurance program’s rules prompted her to make an excruciating choice — to give…
Republican Megabill Will Mean Higher Health Costs for Many Americans
President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts federal spending on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces by about $1 trillion over a decade, according…
To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health Care
President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful” budget reconciliation bill would make some of the most sweeping changes in health policy in years, largely affecting Medicaid…
‘MAHA Report’ Calls for Fighting Chronic Disease, but Trump and Kennedy Have Yanked Funding
The Trump administration has declared that it will aggressively combat chronic disease in America. Yet in its feverish purge of federal health programs, it has…