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It’s Almost Flu Season. Should You Still Get a Shot, and Will Insurance Cover It?

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18 August 2025
Doctors and public health leaders, including at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recommend that most people 6 months old and older get the 2025-26 flu vaccine — and it’s still covered by most insurance plans.

Health Care Groups Aim To Counter Growing ‘National Scandal’ of Elder Homelessness

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18 August 2025
The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing homes as homelessness grows.

CDC Staff Tell Journalist They Felt Targeted Even Before Atlanta Campus Shooting

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

Reduced ACA Subsidies May Make It Harder for Young Adults To Afford Coverage

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15 August 2025
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Breaking Down Why Medicare Part D Premiums Are Likely To Go Up

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15 August 2025
Insurers will take drug costs, frequency of use, and other factors into account as they set premium amounts for the 2026 plan year.

Maryland Taps Affordable Care Act Fund To Help Pay for Abortion Care

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15 August 2025
The state is using an old source of funding to pay for a new money crunch: assisting out-of-state patients with the costs associated with abortion.

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump Further Politicizes Science

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14 August 2025
President Donald Trump’s latest executive order about science and medicine seeks to take funding decisions out of the hands of career scientists and give them to political appointees instead. And a gunman, reportedly disgruntled over covid vaccines, shoots at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, killing a law enforcement officer. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Aaron Carroll, president and CEO of the health services research group AcademyHealth, about how to restore the public’s trust in public health.

‘A Fear Pandemic’: Immigration Raids Push Patients Into Telehealth

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14 August 2025
With intensified immigration enforcement in California, community clinics serving Latino and immigrant populations say they’ve noticed an increase in appointment cancellations and telehealth usage. But, as the covid-19 pandemic showed, accessing the necessary technology can be a challenge and virtual appointments can take a person’s health care only so far.

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