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Journalists Zero In on Potential Medicaid Cuts and Social Security Hiccups

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10 May 2025
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

Trump Once Vowed To End HIV in America. His Funding Cuts Are Rolling Back Progress.

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09 May 2025
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A California Lawmaker Leans Into Her Medical Training in Fight for Health Safety Net

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09 May 2025
As California’s budget deadline looms, state Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson, a physician-turned-lawmaker, says state leaders may soon have to make some tough decisions on health care spending. With the state’s Medi-Cal program billions of dollars short, California’s health care safety net is at risk — even without federal cuts to Medicaid.

Trump Team Faces Key Legal Decision That Could Put Mental Health Parity in Peril

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09 May 2025
The administration is facing a May 12 deadline to declare if it will defend Biden-era regulations that aim to enforce laws requiring parity in insurance coverage of mental and physical health care.

Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak

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09 May 2025
A new training program teaches workers to stop the baby talk and address older people as adults.

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Cutting Medicaid Is Hard — Even for the GOP

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08 May 2025
Republicans on Capitol Hill are struggling to reach consensus on cutting the Medicaid program as they search for nearly a trillion dollars in savings over the next decade — as many observers predicted. Meanwhile, turmoil continues at the Department of Health and Human Services, with more controversial cuts and personnel moves, including the sudden nomination of Casey Means, an ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s, to become surgeon general. Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Maya Goldman of Axios, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Lauren Sausser, who co-reported the latest “Bill of the Month” feature, about an unexpected bill for what seemed like preventive care.

Sen. Ron Wyden Seeks Answers on RFK Jr.’s Purge of FOIA Staff

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08 May 2025
“Citizen oversight is a cornerstone of a functioning democracy,” Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., demanding answers to more than two dozen questions, including who was involved in decisions to fire staff who handled Freedom of Information Act requests.

Seeking Spending Cuts, GOP Lawmakers Target a Tax Hospitals Love To Pay

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08 May 2025
Republicans, on the hunt for spending cuts, are eyeing a special kind of Medicaid tax that nearly every state uses to boost funding for hospitals, nursing homes, and other providers.

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