Congressional Stalemate Creates Chaos for Obamacare Shoppers
This year, Affordable Care Act marketplace consumers will need to be more informed than ever to navigate their health coverage choices.
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Trumps HHS Orders State Medicaid Programs To Help Find Undocumented Immigrants
Federal health authorities have taken the "unprecedented" step of instructing states to investigate certain individuals on Medicaid to determine whether they are ineligible because of their immigration status, with five states reporting theyve received more than 170,000 names collectively.
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Journalists Help Make Sense of Government Shutdown and Obamacare Open Enrollment
窪蹋勛圖厙 News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Heres a collection of their appearances.
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The Nations Largest Food Aid Program Is About To See Cuts. Heres What You Should Know.
The federal government is making sweeping changes to SNAP, the program that helped feed about 42 million people in the U.S. last year. Heres a breakdown of the changes to come and potential impacts.
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Deal or No Deal? States Prepare for Congress To Act at the Last Minute on Obamacare
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By Amanda Seitz Happy Open Enrollment Eve!
Episode 420A standoff in Congress is keeping much of the government shut down as open enrollment begins in most states for Affordable Care Act plans. Democrats are demanding Republicans agree to extend ACA tax credits, but there has been little negotiating even as customers are learning what theyll pay for coverage next year. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is telling states they cant pass their own laws to keep medical debt off consumers credit reports. Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post, Maya Goldman of Axios, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner to discuss those stories and more.
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The Quiet Collapse of Americas Reproductive Health Safety Net
The HHS office that administers the Title X family planning program has been effectively shut down. And with cuts to federal funding for other family health programs, expected Medicaid cuts, and the potential lapse of ACA subsidies, health leaders fear they are seeing the biggest setback to U.S. reproductive care in half a century.
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Doctor Tripped Up by $64K Bill for Ankle Surgery and Hospital Stay
A doctor in Colorado became the patient after an accident totaled her car and sent her to the operating room. The hospital kept her overnight, but her insurer stopped paying after she left the emergency room.
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So Your Insurance Dropped Your Doctor. Now What?
Patients sometimes find themselves scrambling for affordable care when a contract dispute causes a hospital and most of the doctors and other clinicians who work there to be dropped from an insurance network. Here are six things to know if that happens to you.
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Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers’ Credit Scores From Medical Debt
Reversing guidance from the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau concludes that states cannot bar medical debt from their residents credit reports.
A Listener’s DIY Project Helps Others Deal With High Medical Bills
Season 14, Episode 2A medical students DIY project brings An Arm and a Leg listeners together with new tools to fight medical debt.
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A Ticking Clock: How States Are Preparing for a Last-Minute Obamacare Deal
Even if Congress strikes a deal soon to extend more generous Affordable Care Act subsidies, the prices and types of ACA plans available could change dramatically. Unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval could cloud this years open enrollment season, which begins in most states on Saturday.
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Reporters Cover the Shutdown and the Use of AI in Health Care
窪蹋勛圖厙 News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Heres a collection of their appearances.
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GOP Talking Point Holds ACA Is Haunted by Phantom Enrollees, but the Devils in the Data
Enhanced Affordable Care Act marketplace subsidies have emerged as a flash point in the congressional standoff over the federal government shutdown. Republicans point to what they characterize as increasing amounts of fraud as a reason to hold up the subsidies. But there are two sides to the story.
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Listen: Amid Shutdown Stalemate, Families Brace for SNAP Cuts and Paycheck Limbo
窪蹋勛圖厙 News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner appeared on WAMUs Health Hub to discuss how the government shutdown is affecting food benefits and the help many Americans get to offset their health insurance premiums.
By Julie Rovner Nutrition Programs Face Their Own Shutdown
Episode 419Two major nutrition programs SNAP and WIC are likely to exhaust their funding in November, and the furloughs and firings at the CDC have left the agency unable to perform some of its major functions. Meanwhile, President Donald Trumps new IVF policy is being met with dissatisfaction from both sides. Shefali Luthra of The 19th, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post join 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner to discuss those stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Katheryn Houghton, who wrote the latest Bill of the Month feature.
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Officials Show Little Proof That New Tech Will Help Medicaid Enrollees Meet Work Rules
The Trump administration says its developing a digital tool to help people prove theyre meeting new Medicaid work requirements. 窪蹋勛圖厙 News talked to officials from the two states running pilot programs and found little evidence of new or effective technology.
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A New Car vs. Health Insurance? Average Family Job-Based Coverage Hits $27K
KFF data shows that 2025 marked the first time in two decades that the annual cost of covering a family of four rose by 6% or more for three consecutive years.
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States Jostle Over $50B Rural Health Fund as Trumps Medicaid Cuts Trigger Scramble
States are battling for their piece of $50 billion in federal rural health funding, but its not just hospitals vying for the money. Tech startups and policy demands are raising the stakes as Medicaid cuts loom.
Schr繹dingers Government Shutdown
Episode 418Democrats and Republicans remain stalled over funding the federal government as Republicans launch a new attack on the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is taking advantage of the shutdown to lay off workers from programs supported mostly by Democrats. Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Lauren Weber of The Washington Post, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine join 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner to discuss those stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews health insurance analyst Louise Norris about Medicare open enrollment.