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• Listen to the Latest ‘KFF Health News Minute’ (2024/12/03 15:30)

  “Health Minute” brings original health care and health policy reporting from the KFF Health News newsroom to the airwaves each week.
• Nursing Home Industry Wants Trump To Rescind Staffing Mandate (2024/12/03 10:00)

  A Biden administration rule that imposed minimum rules on nursing levels may not survive, even though many homes lack enough workers to maintain residents’ care.
• California Falling Short of Enrollment Goal as Mental Health Courts Roll Out Statewide (2024/12/03 10:00)

  California’s goal was to help 2,000 seriously mentally ill people by the end of this year, but data shows fewer than 600 petitions have been filed. As the CARE program expands to every county, officials say it sometimes takes months to locate eligible adults and get them in treatment plans.
• With Trump on the Way, Advocates Look to States To Pick Up Medical Debt Fight (2024/12/03 10:00)

  Patient and consumer advocates fear a new Trump administration will scale back federal efforts to expand financial protections for patients and shield them from debt.
• Who Gets Obesity Drugs Covered by Insurance? In North Carolina, It Helps If You’re on Medicaid (2024/12/02 10:00)

  GLP-1 agonist medications such as Ozempic accounted for 10% of the North Carolina state employee health plan’s prescription drug spending, so the state is no longer covering them for weight loss alone. Still, it did decide to cover them for Medicaid patients’ weight loss. A look inside the state’s coverage calculus.
• Homebound Seniors Living Alone Often Slip Through Health System’s Cracks (2024/12/02 09:00)

  There is a large population of older adults with physical problems that prevent them from leaving home. Many have significant medical and practical needs that go unmet.
• A Toddler Got a Nasal Swab Test but Left Before Seeing a Doctor. The Bill was $445. (2024/11/27 10:00)

  A mom in Peoria, Illinois, took her 3-year-old to the ER one evening last December. While they were waiting to be seen, the toddler seemed better, so they left without seeing a doctor. Then the bill came.
• Trump Doesn’t Need Congress To Make Abortion Effectively Unavailable (2024/11/27 10:00)

  President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail not to sign a nationwide abortion ban. But he wouldn’t need to do so to make abortion difficult, or illegal, writes KFF Health News’ chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner.