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In Congress, Calls Mount for Social Security to Address Clawbacks
An investigation by KFF Health News and Cox Media Group gained further traction on Capitol Hill this week as additional members of Congress formally demanded answers from the Social Security Administration about billions of…
Desantis, Newsom to Tangle Over Hot-Button Health Issues
Angela Hart and Daniel Chang
Florida’s Republican presidential hopeful, Ron DeSantis,and Democratic firebrand Gavin Newsom of California square off today in a contest of governors that can best be described as the debate to determine…
Medicare Advantage Increasingly Popular With Seniors — But Not Hospitals and Doctors
A hospital system in Georgia. Two medical groups in San Diego. Another in Louisville, Kentucky, and nearly one-third of Nebraska hospitals. Across the country, health care providers are refusing to accept some Medicare Advantage…
Hospitals and Doctors Are Fed up With Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage plans are pretty popular with both lawmakers and ordinary Americans — they now enroll about 31 million people, representing just over half of everyone in Medicare, by KFF’s count.
But among doctors and…
GOP Presidential Hopefuls Use Trump’s Covid Record to Court Vaccine Skeptics
Former President Donald Trump often seems proud to advertise his administration’s record on speedily developing covid-19 vaccines.
On the campaign trail to win another term in the White House, though, he also has knocked the…
Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Makes Other Public Assistance Harder to Get
MISSOULA, Mont. — An hour before sunrise, Shelly Brost walked a mile in freezing rain to the public assistance office. She was running out of time to prove she still qualified for food aid after being stymied by a backlogged state…
Medicaid’s ‘Unwinding’ Can Be Especially Perilous for Disabled People
Earlier this year, Beverly Likens thought she’d done everything she needed to do to keep her Medicaid. Then came an unwelcome surprise: Ahead of surgery to treat chronic bleeding, the hospital said her insurance was inactive,…
She Once Advised the President on Aging Issues. Now, She’s Battling Serious Disability and…
Judith Graham
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Back Pain? Bum Knee? Be Prepared to Wait for a Physical Therapist
Mark Kreidler
At no point along his three-year path to earning a degree in physical therapy has Matthew Lee worried about getting a job.
Being able to make a living off that degree? That’s a different question — and the…
La atención de salud, en el centro del debate entre DeSantis y Newsom
Daniel Chang and Angela Hart
Florida
Gobernador Ron DeSantisEdad: 45Población de Florida: 22.2 million
California
Gobernador Gavin NewsomEdad: 56Población de California: 39 million
El candidato presidencial…