Medicaid Recipients Struggle To Stay Enrolled

Dan Weissmann Medicaid — the state-federal health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans — has cut more than 22 million recipients since spring 2023. One of them was the son of Ashley Eades. Her family lost their Medicaid coverage in the “unwinding” of protections that had barred states from dropping people for years during…

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Journalists Talk Cost of Weight Loss Drugs and Lack of Obesity Doctors to Manage Their Use

KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed weight loss drugs on KMOX’s “Total Information AM” on May 29. Click here to hear Rayasam on “Total Information AM” Read Rayasam’s “High Price of Popular Diabetes Drugs Deprives Low-Income People of Effective Treatment” Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health, discussed…

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