USDA ends annual reports tracking hunger in America
For 30 years, Americans have relied on a yearly government report to understand how many families go without enough food. That report is now ending.
Sep 22, 2025
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Health Care Economics and Organizations: News and Research on Financing, Government
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Projected surge in uninsured will strain local health systems
Jake Margo Jr. stood in the triage room at Starr County Memorial Hospital explaining why a person with persistent fever who could be treated with over-the-counter medication didn't need to be admitted to the emergency room.
Sep 22, 2025
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Trump's Medicaid cuts were aimed at 'able-bodied adults': Hospitals say kids will be hurt
Republicans insist that President Donald Trump's cuts to Medicaid were aimed at reducing fraud and getting more of its adult beneficiaries into jobs. But the side effects may include less care for sick kids.
Sep 15, 2025
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Responding to federal changes, Maryland seeks to clarify 'confusing' COVID-19 vaccine rules
With the cold and flu season approaching, Maryland health officials issued guidance Wednesday on who may receive COVID-19 vaccines and whether insurance will cover the shots—a shifting landscape a top regulator described ...
Sep 12, 2025
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Democrats and Republicans disapprove of Medicare, Medicaid cuts, research finds
Most Americans disapprove of cuts to federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, a Northeastern University survey finds, including a majority of both Democratic and Republican voters.
Sep 11, 2025
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In the fallout from Trump's health funding cuts, states face tough budget decisions
Patients begin lining up before dawn at Operation Border Health, an annual five-day health clinic in Texas' Rio Grande Valley. Many residents in this predominantly Latino and Hispanic region spanning the Mexican border lack ...
Sep 11, 2025
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Fighting a health insurance denial? Here are 7 tips to help
When Sally Nix found out that her health insurance company wouldn't pay for an expensive, doctor-recommended treatment to ease her neurological pain, she prepared for battle.
Sep 9, 2025
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Emergency department visits by uninsured children in Texas soar 45% after COVID-era federal funding ends
As the COVID-19 pandemic wound down, so did the federal government's funding to states that allowed all Medicaid enrollees to keep their coverage even if they no longer would have been eligible otherwise.
Sep 9, 2025
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He built Michigan's Medicaid work requirement system: Now he's warning other states
It was March 2020, and Robert Gordon was about to kick some 80,000 people off health insurance.
Sep 8, 2025
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Medicaid is crucial to access treatment for opioid addiction, researchers find
Medicaid plays a key role for giving people with opioid-use disorder access to treatment, according to a Rutgers Health study. Progress in life-saving treatment for opioid-use disorder with the medication has stalled in the ...
Sep 2, 2025
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