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• The Meltdown in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance (2026/09/14 09:00)

  Stat reporter Bob Herman joins “An Arm and a Leg” to discuss the impact of surging health insurance costs on businesses and their workers.
• Anger Over Health Costs Clouds Midterms (2026/09/10 19:05)

  Amid a campaign already focusing on affordability, anxious voters are unlikely to be assuaged by headlines about healthcare costs rising even more next year. And a lawsuit that could cut off access nationwide to the abortion pill mifepristone gets a hearing in federal court. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, Sandhya Raman of Bloomberg Law, and Amanda Seitz of KFF Health News join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Rovner also interviews Lauren Sausser, who wrote the latest KFF Health News “Bill of the Month.”
• Nonprofits Are Helping Musicians Pay for Insurance in Austin, Texas, and Beyond (2026/09/09 09:00)

  A nonprofit and a local public health agency are subsidizing marketplace health insurance for Austin music artists, even as shifting marketplace conditions make the program a more expensive proposition. It’s becoming a model for other cities and sectors.
• Why Older Pedestrians Fare Worse in Car Crashes (2026/08/28 09:00)

  People age 65 and up are more likely than other age groups to die after being hit by a vehicle.
• What Geriatric Emergency Departments Do Differently (2026/08/18 09:00)

  These specialized units can help keep older patients out of the hospital, lower their healthcare costs, and more.
• Kennedy’s Quiet Hunt for Autism Culprits Stalls as Trump Orders Baseless Changes to Childhood Shots (2026/08/17 09:00)

  The Trump administration is working to implement the president’s new order on childhood vaccines, which he publicly faulted for a rise in autism — even as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closed-door research has yet to produce evidence linking them.
• Hospital Prepayment Requirements Add New Wrinkles to Patients’ Financial Responsibility (2026/08/12 09:00)

  Hospitals and other medical providers are increasingly asking for payment before providing care, collecting more of what patients might owe as rising insurance deductibles add to Americans' financial pressures.
• Watch: Democratic Senator Proposes a Fix for American Healthcare — Covering All Kids (2026/08/06 09:00)

  Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey wants to offer universal healthcare until age 26. He sat down with KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to answer the question: “How Would You Fix It?”