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Trump, Harris Spar Over Abortion Rights and Obamacare in Their First Face-Off
KFF Health News and PolitiFact staffs When Vice President Kamala Harris walked across the debate stage Tuesday night to shake…
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Fearing the Worst, Schools Deploy Armed Police To Thwart Gun Violence
PITTSBURGH — A false alarm that a gunman was roaming one Catholic high school and then another in March 2023…
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Longtime Head of L.A. Care To Retire After Navigating Major Medi-Cal Changes
LOS ANGELES — For nearly a decade, John Baackes has led L.A. Care Health Plan, a publicly run insurer primarily…
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US Uninsured Rate Was Stable in 2023, Even as States’ Medicaid Purge Began
The proportion of Americans without health insurance remained stable in 2023, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, close to the record…
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En los comerciales de medicamentos en TV, lo que ves no siempre es lo que es
La música triunfal suena mientras pacientes con cáncer van de campamento, hacen jardinería y ven fuegos artificiales en anuncios de…
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Harris and Trump Are Ready To Take on Big Pharma
Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are both eager to take on high drug prices, leaving pharmaceutical…
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ACA Enrollment Platforms Suspended Over Alleged Foreign Access to Consumer Data
Suspicions that U.S. consumers’ personal information could be accessed from India led regulators to abruptly bar two large private sector…
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Health Secretary Becerra Touts Extreme Heat Protections. Farmworkers Want More.
CLARKSBURG, Calif. — On a sunny August morning in this agricultural town, before temperatures soared to 103 degrees, U.S. Health…
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With TV Drug Ads, What You See Is Not Necessarily What You Get
Triumphant music plays as cancer patients go camping, do some gardening, and watch fireworks in ads for Opdivo+Yervoy, a combination…
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Journalists Give Rundown on Bird Flu Risks, HIV Rates, and the Fate of Shuttered Hospitals
KFF Health News Colorado correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell discussed farmworkers and their risk of contracting bird flu on KGNU on…
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