U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson shakes hands with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on Nov. 13, 2024 in Washington. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption
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Morris Brown, a primary care physician, listens to Sarah McCutcheon’s heartbeat in the exam room at his medical office in Kingstree, South Carolina, which sits in a region that suffers from health care provider shortages and high rates of chronic diseases. Gavin McIntyre for KFF Health News hide caption
A drumming circle at the Friendship House in San Francisco. Friendship House is a Native-led recovery treatment program that provides culturally relevant care. San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images hide caption
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the Republican National Convention in July. She said Arkansas does not need "a duplicative program" to address its maternal mortality problems. Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
Every state but Arkansas has moved to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services secretary Kody Kinsley discusses the impact of Medicaid expansion on prescriptions during a news conference at the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh, N.C., on Friday, July 12, 2024. When the state expanded access to Medicaid in December, more than 500,000 residents gained access to health coverage. Makiya Seminera/AP hide caption
Alondra Mercado, a community health worker with the Central California Asthma Collaborative, helps provide services through an ambitious California Medicaid initiative. On a recent morning in March, she visited a family in Turlock to teach a mother how to control in-home asthma triggers that cause flare-ups in her young son. Angela Hart/KFF Health News hide caption
Medicaid plans aren't required to cover Wegovy for weight loss and obesity, but some do and others are considering adding it for those uses. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
In March, mom Indira Navas learned that her son Andres, 6, was kicked off of Florida Medicaid, while her daughter, Camila, 12, was still covered. The family is one of millions dealing with Medicaid red tape this year. Javier Ojeda hide caption
Mental health care is hard to find, especially for people with Medicare or Medicaid
People who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid face maddening challenges accessing health care. The government spends $500 billion on this care, yet patients often can't get what they need. amtitus/Getty Images hide caption
Women's rights advocates demonstrate against abortion bans in May 2019, in Philadelphia. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
Immigrants wait to be processed after they crossed the border into the U.S. in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 22. Eleven states and D.C. offer taxpayer-funded health insurance to some immigrants without legal status. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Even though she still qualified, Beverly Likens of Martin, Kentucky, lost her Medicaid just days before a needed surgery. It took a lawyer helping her to straighten out the red tape. Veronica Turner/KFF Health News hide caption
Community health worker Hector Gallegos and nurse Jose Lopez gather supplies to treat homeless patients in Modesto, California. Ryan Levi/Tradeoffs hide caption
Ben Norris, 65, used to live on the streets. Now he's taking part in a pilot project in Oregon that uses Medicaid funds to pay for housing and rent for people who are homeless or in danger of becoming so. Celeste Noche for NPR hide caption
Can states ease homelessness by tapping Medicaid funding? Oregon is betting on it
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and other members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus could force a federal government shutdown Oct. 1. The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and prevention would be affected. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
About 12 million Americans qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid, and they face relentless red tape accessing health care. A bipartisan fix that could help them is in the works. Getty Images hide caption
Jason Weida is the secretary for Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration, which has been named in a lawsuit. Phil Sears/AP hide caption
As many as 24 million people across the U.S. are expected to lose Medicaid coverage over the next year, according to estimates by the health policy research organization KFF. Getty Images hide caption
The Justice Department announced charges against 78 people related to health care fraud schemes. Samuel Corum/Getty Images hide caption
Alicia Celaya, David Cardenas and their son Adrian, 3, in Phoenix in April. Celaya and her family will lose their Medicaid coverage later this year, a result of a year-long nationwide review of the Medicaid enrollees that will require states to remove people whose incomes are now too high for the program. Matt York/AP hide caption
The U.S. public health emergency declaration helped marshal resources during the worst of the COVID-19 crisis, when the virus was spreading rampantly. This week, the declaring expires. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is shown in Washington, D.C. A proposed rule will expand government-funded health care access to DACA recipients. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption