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Fry makes too much money to get health insurance through Georgia’s limited Medicaid expansion and he found Affordable Care Act plans too expensive. (Lynsey Whitehead photo. KFF Health News).

In a first, Trump and GOP-led Congress prepare to swell ranks of U.S. uninsured

July 2, 2025 at 6:03 a.m.

Last September, Alton Fry went to the doctor concerned he had high blood pressure. The trip would result in a prostate cancer diagnosis. So began the stress of trying to...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Kennedy’s vaccine advisers sow doubts as scientists protest US pivot on shots

June 27, 2025 at 1:11 p.m.

As fired and retired scientists rallied outside in the Atlanta heat, an advisory panel that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. handpicked to replace experts he’d fired earlier met inside the Centers...

If lawsuit ends federal mandates on birth control coverage, states will have say

July 10, 2024 at 6:12 a.m.

David Engler had been pretty sure he didn’t want children. Then a frustrating school day two years ago helped seal the deal for the now 43-year-old substitute teacher.

Mary Wakefield, then the deputy secretary of Health and Human Services, speaks at an event at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington in this April 2016 photo. (CHERISS MAY / NURPHOTO VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Meet Mary Wakefield, the nurse administrator tasked with revamping the CDC

September 7, 2022 at 10:53 a.m.

It’s been a rough couple of years for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Facing a barrage of criticism for repeatedly mishandling its response to the covid-19 pandemic and...

Critics worry government surveillance of HIV may hurt more than it helps

July 21, 2022 at 6:23 a.m.

Robert Suttle has seen firsthand the legal risks of having HIV.

Boost now or wait? Many wonder how best to ride out COVID’s next wave

July 18, 2022 at 8:53 a.m.

As the country faces a rise in new infections driven by the omicron BA.5 subvariant of the coronavirus, about 70% of people 50 and older who got a first covid-19...

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