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Lifestyle & Health

Trump’s Personnel Agency Says It Will Remove Some Identifying Info as It Sweeps Up Medical Records

The Trump administration is forging ahead with a controversial plan to collect the medical records of millions of federal workers and retirees, as wel...

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A Sales Tax on Doctor Visits and Medicine? In Missouri, Some Worry

ST. LOUIS — Missouri healthcare advocate Leslie Ortbals and her husband want to start a family, but she worries they can’t afford it. The 27-year-old...

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Knee Pain? Ragged Cartilage? Research Suggests Surgery’s Not the Best Answer

Thousands of Americans who undergo a common knee surgery might be making their problems worse rather than better. Researchers who followed patients...

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A New Option for Long-Term Care Costs

Kelly Haggett figures that a mandatory surcharge added to Washington state’s payroll tax cost her about $500 last year. But she doesn’t really mind....

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Thousands of Medicare Beneficiaries Thought Their Drug Plan Was Free. Then They Lost It.

Jude Pare and his partner, Diane Tix, live in rural Minnesota until temperatures dip below freezing, when they take refuge in Arizona for the winter....

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She Struggled To Get a Lifesaving Drug Even After Insurers Vowed To Help

LADUE, Mo. — Over four consecutive days in January, Margaret Hvatum ran a 5K, a 10K, a half-marathon, and a full marathon. The 70-year-old covered a c...

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Medicare Advantage Company Pays $342M to Government in Midst of Billing Probe

A major Medicare Advantage company has paid the government more than $342 million to help settle allegations that it overcharged the federal healthcar...

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Democrats To Propose Bill Capping Out-of-Pocket Medicare Costs for Enrollees

Sen. Ron Wyden and 14 Democratic co-sponsors plan to introduce legislation Thursday to cap consumers’ potential out-of-pocket costs in traditional Med...

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Medicare’s AI Push Snarls Patients and Doctors in Errors and Delays

Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before him. Each quarter, for several years,...

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Indiana Takes On Powerful Hospitals by Capping Prices They Charge Employers

Tired of watching its employers struggle to afford the cost of healthcare, Republican-controlled Indiana is trying a traditionally liberal tactic to c...

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The Drip, Drip, Drip of Declining Coverage

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky....

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Trump Promised Cheaper Drugs. Some Prices Dropped. Many Others Shot Up.

Since his second term started, President Donald Trump has announced, negotiated, or floated a flurry of initiatives aimed at taming the excesses of th...