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• KFF Health News: Medicare Drug Plans Are Hiking Premiums While Trump Claims Victory on Medicine Prices

  October 30, 2026: (Eric Harkleroad/KFF Health News) Millions of Medicare enrollees who buy stand-alone prescription drug plans will see their average monthly premiums rise by 50% in 2027, a new analysis finds. But enrollees can avoid the average increase — from ...Read more >

• KFF Health News – ‘Go to Canada’: Trump Touted Americans’ Access to Cheaper Drugs. A New Rule Threatens It.

  October 22, 2026: Days before it was to go into effect, the Trump administration pushed back a U.S. customs rule threatening the supply of vital prescription drugs imported by millions of Americans. Under the rule, Customs and Border Protection and the FDA will req...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Midterms Have Revived Universal Healthcare Debate. These States Are Ahead of Everyone.

  October 02, 2026: Oregon is crafting a plan to implement universal healthcare coverage. A working group created by the state legislature in 2023 is slated to send lawmakers its proposal for the plan by Dec. 1. Lawmakers could vote on it as soon as the next legislative...Read more >

• KFF Health News: When a Friend Becomes a Caregiver

  September 10, 2026: (Maskot/Getty Images) For several years, Nicole Straight and Patricia Wood, who lived across the street from each other in Sausalito, California, were more neighbors than friends, exchanging sociable greetings and occasionally having coffee. Then...Read more >

• KFF Health News: You Want To Join a Clinical Trial. Here’s What To Know About the Hurdles.

  August 19, 2026: (DigitalVision/Getty Images) Connecting people with clinical trials is complicated — even if people identify a promising match, there’s a slew of potentially thorny factors, including geographic incompatibility, and financial and time considerat...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Medicare’s Paying Less for Cataract Surgery. Eye Doctors Are Turning to Lucrative Lasers.

  August 19, 2026: (E+/Getty Images) Tammy Chalala, a retired dietitian in New York, was thrilled with the results of her cataract surgeries, which left her with close to 20/20 vision. She said she paid nearly $4,000 out-of-pocket for her two surgeries last year be...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Patients Wary of Governments, Companies Pushing AI as a Rural Healthcare Solution

  August 11, 2026: (Oona Zenda/KFF Health News) HOT SPRINGS, S.D. — Two of the nation’s most powerful health officials predict artificial intelligence will play a key role in solving rural America’s health challenges. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Trump’s Personnel Agency Says It Will Remove Some Identifying Info as It Sweeps Up Medical Records

  July 22, 2026: The Trump administration is forging ahead with a controversial plan to collect the medical records of millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members. The Office of Personnel Management said in a notice posted last month ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Facing Funding Losses, States Call Out Big Businesses With Employees on Medicaid

  July 15, 2026: As the Trump administration’s January deadline looms for states to enforce new Medicaid work requirements, some state lawmakers are turning the tables by pushing to publicly name the largest companies that have employees enrolled in the government ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Thousands of Medicare Beneficiaries Thought Their Drug Plan Was Free. Then They Lost It.

  July 07, 2026: Jude Pare and his partner, Diane Tix, live in rural Minnesota until temperatures dip below freezing, when they take refuge in Arizona for the winter. While away, their mail is forwarded. But Pare, 77, said he didn’t receive any warning from his Med...Read more >