This year’s Obamacare open enrollment period, which started Nov. 1 in most states, is full of uncertainty and confusion for the more than 24 million people who buy health insurance through the federal ...

Federal health authorities have taken the "unprecedented" step of instructing states to investigate certain individuals on ...

Republicans in Congress have suggested big cuts to Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities. The complex, multifaceted program touches millions ...

Millions of rural Americans live in counties with doctor shortages and where high-speed internet connections aren’t adequate to access advanced telehealth services. A KFF Health News analysis found ...

At a recent meeting of a key vaccine advisory panel, members debated changes to the timing of hepatitis B vaccination, while largely ignoring the risk of early childhood transmission from day care or ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has helped improve health care safety in a country where thousands die of medical errors each year. It was effectively dissolved Tuesday.

Although the disease is currently spreading almost exclusively among men who have sex with men, some cases are turning up in other populations — and that number is likely to grow if public health ...

Antoinette, a refugee who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo, is bracing for the loss of her federal food benefits. “How am I going to manage?” she worries. (Renuka Rayasam/KFF Health News) ...

People march around Glendale Memorial Hospital on July 17 in Glendale, California, where Milagro Solis-Portillo was being treated after experiencing a medical emergency while being detained by U.S.

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