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Mashup Score: 0Trump won't force Medicaid to cover GLP-1s for obesity. A few states are doing it anyway. - 4 hour(s) ago
Late last year, South Carolina Medicaid approved GLP-1s to treat obesity, placing it among the few state programs covering the drugs. But access remains limited.
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Mashup Score: 1Listen to the Latest 'KFF Health News Minute' - KFF Health News - 5 hour(s) ago
“Health Minute” brings original health care and health policy reporting from the KFF Health News newsroom to the airwaves each week.
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Hyperthermia deaths are rising, and millions of people could lose Medicaid if the incoming Republican-controlled Congress follows through on proposed cuts to federal funding. Listen to this week's KFF Health News Minute. ⤵️ https://t.co/Gmr3w4affy
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Mashup Score: 3Trump Exaggerates Speed and Certainty of Prescription Drug Price Reductions - KFF Health News - 6 hour(s) ago
According to the timeline in the May 12 executive order, prescription drug price reductions would not happen “almost immediately,” but rather could take months or years. And extending the savings to Americans outside federal health insurance programs such as Medicare would likely require congressional action.
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President Donald Trump said that under his new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced “almost immediately.” KFF Health News and @PolitiFact rate this claim as Mostly False. @loujacobson explains why. ⤵️ https://t.co/pMD8AAjuH9
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One thing experts agree on: The damage from the funding cuts will be varied and immense.
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NEW: Experts say damage from Trump’s cuts to scientific research will be immense. “It’s exceedingly foolish to cut funding in this way,” Harold Varmus, a former director of the National Institutes of Health, told @RosenthalHealth. https://t.co/64gPTIp3cR
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Fresh studies expose a gap in the FDA’s assessments of foods: Widely used additives could damage the mix of bacteria in your gut, causing health problems.
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NEW: Recent studies have raised concerns that chemicals such as maltodextrin, carrageenan, and carboxymethyl cellulose could throw your gut bacteria out of whack, causing health problems. @DavidHilzenrath reports. ⤵️ https://t.co/qYU85AaLI3
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Mashup Score: 1Journalists Unpack Drug Prices, Threats to Medicaid, and the Fluoridation of Water - KFF Health News - 1 day(s) ago
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
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KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances. ⤵️ https://t.co/fbpvIECYuD
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Studies have found that emulsifiers can alter the mix of bacteria in the gut, known as the microbiome or microbiota; damage the lining of the gastrointestinal tract; and trigger inflammation, potentially contributing to problems elsewhere in the body.
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Recent studies have raised concerns that chemicals such as maltodextrin, carrageenan, and carboxymethyl cellulose could throw your gut bacteria out of whack, causing health problems. KFF Health News' @DavidHilzenrath reporting on @CNN. ⤵️ https://t.co/g1mC6JxIyV
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Mashup Score: 5Trump’s DOJ Accuses Medicare Advantage Insurers of Paying ‘Kickbacks’ for Primo Customers - KFF Health News - 1 day(s) ago
The Department of Justice alleges that several major health insurers paid brokerages “hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks” to get agents to steer consumers into their Medicare Advantage plans, allegations the insurers strongly dispute.
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NEW: “This is money not being spent on care, money not going to providers of health care services,” a policy expert says of allegations in a blockbuster lawsuit accusing insurers of paying for enrollments. @Julie_appleby reports. ⤵️ https://t.co/C0qVM4ebEH
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Mashup Score: 3Housing, Nutrition in Peril as Trump Pulls Back Medicaid Social Services - KFF Health News - 1 day(s) ago
About half of states have broadened Medicaid, the state-federal low-income health care program, to pay for social services such as housing and nutritional support. The Trump administration, however, views these experiments as distractions from the core mission to provide health care.
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NEW: Experiments to address social determinants of health are being questioned by the Trump administration, causing chaos in states. @ahartreports reports. ⤵️ https://t.co/V06unK8HLJ
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Mashup Score: 7Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies - KFF Health News - 1 day(s) ago
More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, including a South Dakota hospital that serves small towns, farming communities, and a Native American reservation. Patients there now travel at least an hour to give birth.
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NEW: More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, including a South Dakota hospital. Patients there now travel at least an hour to give birth. @Ajzionts reports.⤵️ https://t.co/au2bhUkRD7
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GLP-1s offer hope to patients who have tried and failed to lose weight before. Yet these effective but expensive drugs remain out of reach for millions of Americans, even for those with health insurance. @laurenmsausser, KFF Health News + @CBSNews. ⤵️ https://t.co/MBPJNkpoeo