How Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan to force more people into mental health treatment left many families still searching for help.
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Watch: The $50 Billion Rural Health Program in Context
Experts discuss what the new federal approach means for access, outcomes, and financial stability in rural America.
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Breaking Down Trump’s $50 Billion Rural Health Fund
Rural health experts dig into the Trump administration’s effort to transform rural health care.
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Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.
Several cities and counties are addressing street homelessness with a new approach, which experts say can clear encampments while protecting the health of people who are forced to move.
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What It’s Like to Be Transgender in Trump’s America
How the federal government has restricted health care access for transgender Americans, and how those shifts in policy and rhetoric are changing life for one Alabama family.
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‘I Feel Unsafe Almost Everywhere’: How Trump Has Changed Life for One Transgender Teen
A conversation with an 18-year-old and her dad about how anti-trans policies have impacted their lives in 2025.
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As the Big Beautiful Bill Becomes Law, States Face a ‘Daunting’ Rollout
North Carolina’s former health secretary explains the heavy lift and hard choices ahead of states as they rush to put Republicans’ new health reforms in place.
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Watch Tradeoffs and Penn Experts Discuss the Health Impacts of the “One Big Beautiful Bill”
As the U.S. Senate opens debate on a sweeping budget reconciliation bill passed by the House in May, leading health care scientists are warning that the legislation—formally titled the “One […]
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Helping Some of America’s Costliest Patients Could Get A Lot Harder
Some people’s lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly flare into $10,000 hospital visits. Health care experts have spent years trying to help this small but costly group of patients. What have they learned?
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What Republican Health Cuts Could Mean for People with Disabilities
We talk with Harvard researcher Ari Ne’eman about why the sharp policy shifts underway in Washington pose a unique threat to people with disabilities.