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They were calling on the federal government to take more action to reduce overdoses. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-29T17:53:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/er-monitoring-anaphylactic-shock-allergic-reaction-bill-of-the-month-april-2026/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2026/04/APR_BOTM__Toska_03_01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Silvana Toksana</image:title><image:caption>The hospital coded Toska's visit as “critical care” and charged her insurer more than $6,700. She had to pay more than $3,000.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-29T15:28:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/mental-health/suicide-prevention-mental-health-upstream-solutions-eleven-minutes/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-29T15:25:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/aging/new-old-age-community-health-workers-promotores-home-visits-senior-support/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2026/04/GettyImages-2087259322.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Unrecognizable Woman Giving Medicine and Glass of Water to an Older Man</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-28T21:55:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/es/noticias-en-espanol/la-ayuda-que-mas-necesitan-muchos-estadounidenses-mayores/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2026/04/seniors.jpg</image:loc><image:title>seniors</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-28T21:54:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/medical-debt-connecticut-doctors-sue-patients/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/Med_Debt_Wilson_10.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Med_Debt_Wilson_10</image:title><image:caption>Allie Cass-Wilson, who lives in Bristol, Connecticut, is a nurse. She was sued over a $1,972 debt by an OB-GYN practice where she’d been a patient years earlier. “How can they do that to people?” she says. She did not contest the lawsuit, court records show.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-28T19:39:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/es/noticias-en-espanol/en-connecticut-los-medicos-ahora-demandan-a-pacientes-por-facturas-impagas-mas-que-los-hospitales/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-28T19:39:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/es/noticias-en-espanol/florida-retrasa-la-ampliacion-de-seguro-medico-infantil-mientras-aumenta-el-numero-de-ninos-sin-cobertura/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2026/04/GettyImages-1309070064_eca430.jpg</image:loc><image:title>GettyImages-1309070064_eca430</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-28T19:29:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/infant-formula-fortifier-high-stakes-corporate-battle-preemies-abbott-mead-johnson/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-28T17:29:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/state-medicaid-work-requirements-eligibility-systems-deloitte-accenture-optum/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/Lock_02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lock_02</image:title><image:caption>Joe Lock is CEO of the Eastern Iowa Health Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Most of the clinic’s patients rely on Medicaid. By making employment a condition of Medicaid benefits, an estimated 32,000 Iowans could lose coverage, a 2025 state document shows. “There is no benefit to this population,” Lock says.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-27T17:21:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/chip-expansion-florida-delay-children-health-coverage-uninsured-rates/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2026/04/GettyImages-1309070064.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rear view of mother and toddler walking in hospital corridor</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-27T12:00:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/on-air/kff-health-news-tick-bites-ai-podcasts-cdc-erica-schwartz04-25-26/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-27T09:17:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/stories/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-24T21:32:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/privacy-policy/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-24T20:19:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/health-industry/emergency-room-ed-boarding-hospital-beds-long-waits-crisis/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2026/04/GettyImages-2149694496-resized.jpg</image:loc></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-24T18:36:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicare/medigap-medicare-advantage-premiums-rate-increase-few-alternatives/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2026/04/GettyImages-859285234.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Prices are rising. Arrow diagram grows up near a stethoscope</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-24T18:32:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicaid/food-stamps-snap-work-requirements-hunger-west-virginia-foodbanks/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2026/04/SNAP_03.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SNAP_03</image:title><image:caption>On a typical distribution day, the House of Hope food pantry in Delbarton, West Virginia, hands out up to 400 boxes of food.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-24T18:27:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/what-the-health-podcast-rfk-jr-vs-congress/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-24T14:14:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/letter-to-the-editor/urgent-care-abortion-organ-donors-chatbots-medical-debt-april-2026/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-24T12:25:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/prior-authorization-bipartisan-reform-health-insurance-outrage-ceo-killing/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/GettyImages-2187620518-resized.jpg</image:loc><image:title>United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson Fatally Shot In Midtown Manhattan</image:title><image:caption>A wanted poster set up at a New York Police Department news conference requests information related to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-23T20:10:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/health-care-policy-political-divide-david-blumenthal-interview/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-23T19:08:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/rural-health/tracking-applications-for-rural-health-transformation-funds/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-23T16:19:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-care-costs/watch-health-care-affordability-drew-altman-interview/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-23T16:13:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/ice-custody-immigrant-patient-protection-california-legislation/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2026/04/GettyImages-683074020.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Downtown Sacramento California Capital Dome Building</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-23T15:11:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/es/noticias-en-espanol/en-california-legisladores-buscan-proteger-a-pacientes-bajo-custodia-del-ice/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-23T15:01:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-care-costs/the-week-in-brief-connecticut-doctors-dentists-medical-debt/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-22T20:48:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/anxiety-medications-ssris-prozac-zoloft-lexapro-maha-kennedy-rfk-jr/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/POH_Anxiety_Zapp_01-resized.jpg</image:loc><image:title>POH_Anxiety_Zapp_01-resized</image:title><image:caption>Zapp, a communications director in New York, is one of millions of Americans to start taking an anxiety medication in recent years. “It’s really helped me manage,” she says.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:29:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/courts/detainees-medical-care-ice-detention-dhs-funding-fight/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/GettyImages-2224632049-resized.jpg</image:loc><image:title>US-POLITICS-IMMIGRATION</image:title><image:caption>A view of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s California City Detention Facility last July.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:28:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicaid/medicaid-cuts-disabled-in-home-care-idaho-one-big-beautiful-bill/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/Medicaid-caregiver-cuts-02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Medicaid-caregiver-cuts-02</image:title><image:caption>Ned Fowkes and Alice Whitford visit their daughter, Eva, at the supported living home in Boise, Idaho, that she shares with another person with disabilities. 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She maintains a “rapid response” team of about 150 doctors and nurses who treat people at home, with more than 135 home visits made so far.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:21:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicaid/medicaid-cuts-disabilities-home-community-based-services-iowa/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Walker_03.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Walker_03</image:title><image:caption>Sam Walker, who is deaf and has severe autism, uses sign language to communicate with his mother, Leisa Walker, at a recreation center in Ottumwa, Iowa, where Sam often exercises with caregivers funded by a Medicaid waiver program for people with disabilities. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:21:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicaid/florida-medicaid-work-requirements-expansion-one-big-beautiful-bill-act/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/Mastrototaro.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mastrototaro</image:title><image:caption>Michelle Mastrototaro cares full-time for her disabled son, Bryce. 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(Geneva Reynolds)</image:title><image:caption>Reynolds is pictured at a restaurant in 2025.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:19:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/elections/maha-make-america-healthy-again-vaccines-food-glyphosate-midterm-risk-opportunity/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/GettyImages-2210916045-resized.jpg</image:loc><image:title>HHS Secretary Kennedy Holds News Conference On Synthetic Dyes In Food Supply</image:title><image:caption>A top GOP pollster has said anti-vaccine policies could create risks for the Trump administration in the midterm elections. But backing away from those policies — and other initiatives that have been high on the Make America Healthy Again to-do list — threatens to upset a key voting bloc.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:17:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/aging/medicare-advantage-rates-public-comments-industry-ads-facebook-dark-money/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/MA_Majority.jpg</image:loc><image:title>MA_Majority</image:title><image:caption>Medicare Advantage Majority has spent more than $3.1 million on hundreds of Facebook ads since September 2024, according to Facebook’s Ad Library, a database of the social media company’s online ads.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:17:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/federal-cuts-state-tax-increases-budget-shortfalls-health-clinics-los-angeles-california/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/Clinics_02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Clinics_02</image:title><image:caption>Mia Angulo, who is pregnant and due in May 2026, sought medical attention from a street medicine team run by St. John’s Community Health. 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The 16-year-old said she spends most of her time in her room, feeling isolated like the “Tangled” movie character.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:05:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/public-health/cdc-atlanta-public-health-one-year-later-firings-shooting-morale/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:05:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/public-health/cdc-jay-bhattacharya-acting-director-search-nomination-staff-cuts-morale/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/Bhattacharya.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bhattacharya</image:title><image:caption>Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, has also been serving as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since February.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:05:15+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/rural-health/rural-emergency-hospitals-montana-rightsize-downsize-services-transformation-fund/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/RHT-03-resized.jpg</image:loc><image:title>RHT-03-resized</image:title><image:caption>Big Sandy, in north-central Montana and home to nearly 800 people, is an isolated farming and ranching community about 80 miles from the nearest major town.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:03:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/prior-authorization-insurance-delays-coverage-denials-state-laws-west-virginia/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/WVa_03.jpg</image:loc><image:title>WVa_03</image:title><image:caption>When her husband, Eric Tennant, was denied doctor-recommended cancer treatment by their health insurer, Becky Tennant (right) of Bridgeport, West Virginia, reached out to state lawmakers for help appealing the decision. A Republican delegate, Laura Kimble (left), later introduced a bill to curb harms tied to prior authorization for patients covered by West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-22T19:03:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/trump-obamacare-affordable-care-act-regulations-fraud-income-subsidies/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/GettyImages-2244046846.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Shutdown Risks Leaving Millions With Costlier Health 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Most recently, she has been working on a documentary film and podcast called “Silence in Sikeston.” The project is about two killings of Black men that happened decades apart in this Missouri city: a lynching in 1942 and a police shooting in 2020. 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(Nick Oxford for KHN)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T23:14:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/silence-in-sikeston/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/06122024-SiS-Cotton-Pattern-for-Web-copy1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>06122024-SiS-Cotton-Pattern-for-Web-copy[1]</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T22:27:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/health-industry/sky-high-prices-for-orphan-drugs-slam-american-families-and-insurers/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/orphan-drugs-luke-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>orphan-drugs-luke-5</image:title><image:caption>Luke Whitbeck plays with toys as he receives his enzyme treatment at the Boston Children’s Health Physicians pediatric infusion center in Hawthorne, NY, on October 6, 2016. The 2-year-old needs a weekly infusion to treat his Gaucher’s disease.  (Heidi de Marco/KHN)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T22:19:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/death-by-a-thousand-clicks/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/fortunegraphic1_chartinganewpath.jpg</image:loc><image:title>FortuneGRAPHIC1_ChartingANewPath</image:title><image:caption>(Nicolas Rapp/Fortune)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T22:17:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/no-one-is-coming-hospice-patients-abandoned-at-deaths-door/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/james_ingle.jpg</image:loc><image:title>James_Ingle</image:title><image:caption>James Ingle, 42, shown in an undated family photo, died of cancer on Christmas of 2012. The day he died, he was vomiting and his pain was out of control. His family made several frantic calls to hospice, but couldn’t get a registered nurse to visit the house to help before he died. (Courtesy of Virginia Varney)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T22:12:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/how-tainted-drugs-reach-market-make-patients-sicker/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/tainted-drugs-1_1350.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tainted-drugs-1_1350</image:title><image:caption>A sign on the Morenos’ front door asks visitors not to enter if they have recently been sick.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T22:12:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/the-injured/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-17T22:08:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/on-air/on-air-april-18-2026-urgent-care-abortion-doulas-farm-bureau-health-plans/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-17T21:44:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/diagnosis-debt/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/faces-grid-half.jpg</image:loc><image:title>faces-grid-half</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T21:29:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/broken-rehab/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Inpatient-rehab-facilities-Spaulding_011-gradient-map.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SPAULDING</image:title><image:caption>Exercise machines are available in a therapy gym at Spaulding Rehabilitation in Boston. (Sophie Park for ýҕl Health News)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T21:23:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/aging/caring-for-an-aging-nation/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/LTC-featured-background.jpg</image:loc><image:title>LTC-featured-background</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T21:05:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/lost-on-the-frontline-health-care-worker-death-toll-covid19-coronavirus/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-17T20:16:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/aging/dementia-and-gun-safety-when-should-aging-americans-retire-their-weapons/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/hero-gun_1900x600.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hero-gun_1900x600</image:title><image:caption>Delmar Scroughams holds a gun from his collection on May 2, 2018. After developing dementia in 2009, his wife, Verg, locked up the gun cabinet for their protection. “I’m not ready to live in a house without guns,” says Verg. (Heidi de Marco/KHN)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T19:40:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/data-and-docs/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/campaign-finance-featured_840x4303.jpg</image:loc><image:title>campaign-finance-featured_840x430</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T18:14:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/medicare/biden-drug-pricing-caps-inflation-reduction-act-pharma-reaction/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Mitchell_02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mitchell_02</image:title><image:caption>David Mitchell, founder of Patients for Affordable Drugs, sits in his home office. 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Chowdhury, an internal medicine physician in the Bronx, New York, died on April 9. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T17:29:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/public-health/at-risk-of-extinction-black-footed-ferrets-get-experimental-covid-vaccine/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/USFWS-Gober.jpg</image:loc><image:title>USFWS-Gober</image:title><image:caption>Pete Gober, coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's black-footed ferret recovery program, pictured in 2016. (Ryan Moehring/USFWS via Flickr)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T17:22:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/mental-health/they-fell-in-love-helping-drug-users-but-fear-kept-him-from-helping-himself/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/Beeler2_1350.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Beeler2_1350</image:title><image:caption>Beeler was services coordinator for the Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition, a group that works to help keep drug users safe. A &lt;a href="https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2019/03/26/iowa-city-advocate-harm-reduction-coalition-died-andy-beeler/3139541002/"&gt;tribute&lt;/a&gt; in Iowa City after his death began, "He died of an overdose, but he'll be remembered for helping others avoid a similar fate."</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-17T17:15:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-care-costs/last-minute-loophole-could-undermine-texas-law-against-surprise-medical-bills/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Calver-may2019.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Calver-may2019</image:title><image:caption>Drew Calver (center) of Austin, Texas, received a surprise bill of more than $100,000 after a heart attack. His story and others liked it sparked bipartisan legislation in Texas against the practice. 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Despite having insurance, mom Bisi Bennett and her husband faced a bill of more than $550,000 and were offered an installment payment plan of $45,843 per month for 12 months. 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Expensive</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:21:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/aging/090809cohn/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:21:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/baucusframework/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:21:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicare/florida-medicare/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/09/shfomedicare150.jpg</image:loc><image:title>shfomedicare150.jpg</image:title><image:caption>Democrats Target Federal Subsidies for Medicare's Private 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2009</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:21:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/aarp-and-others/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/transcript-obama-speech/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/ted-kennedy-letter/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/olympia-snowe-trigger/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/09/snoweobamaspeech300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>snoweobamaspeech300.jpg</image:title><image:caption>Obama's Speech Leaves Room For Snowe's Compromise To Put Off Public Option</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/obama-speech-consumer-panel/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/09/micheleloeper100.jpg</image:loc><image:title>MicheleLoeper100.jpg</image:title><image:caption>Obama's Speech: A Sampling Of Reactions From Consumers</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/091009obama/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/obama-speech-expert-panel/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/09/garson100.jpg</image:loc><image:title>garson100.jpg</image:title><image:caption>Experts Analyze Obama's 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2009</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/news/091509verghese/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/kaiser-survey/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/09/ehbsgraphicthumb.jpg</image:loc><image:title>EHBSgraphicthumb.jpg</image:title><image:caption>Workers Face Higher Costs for Employer-Sponsored Insurance 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</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/open-letter-experts/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/npr-economist-debate/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/wyden/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/insurance/communications/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/09/insurancespeaktitle.jpg</image:loc><image:title>insurancespeaktitle.jpg</image:title><image:caption>Confusing Insurance Jargon Prompts Call For Reform</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/communications-sidebar/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/npr-arizona-public-option/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/federal-workers-explainer-fehbp-npr/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/federal-workers-npr/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/09/diabetes300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>diabetes300.jpg</image:title><image:caption>For Federal Workers, Insurance Plan Offers Many Choices</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/092109cohn/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/uninsured-profile-npr/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:20:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/092109hoth/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/hoth-transcript-10/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/092209cadillacstabbe/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/092209cadillaclovell/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/cadillac-health-plans-npr/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/09/cadillac176.jpg</image:loc><image:title>cadillac176.jpg</image:title><image:caption>For 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Enough Insurance And Swimming In Medical 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Assistance</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/california-parallels-health-reform/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicare/100109capretta/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/checkinginwith-bill-frist/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/health-industry/npr-new-doctors/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/100109checkinginwithfrist/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicare/medicareadvantage/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/grady/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/10/grady300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>grady300.jpg</image:title><image:caption>Grady's Challenges Highlight Problems of Safety-Net 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One Senior, Medicaid Provides Model Care</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/npr-medicaid-explainer/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/npr-individual-market/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/10/schapernpr300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>schaperNPR300.jpg</image:title><image:caption>On Their Own, Self-Employed Search For Health Care</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicaid/medicaid-eligibility/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/fees/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/100609npr-individual-market/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:19:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/npr-individual-market-explainer/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/domestic-abuse/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/100809hederman/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/cbo-senate-finance-score/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/checking-in-with-consumer-reports/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/health-industry/npr-doctors-health-costs-lewiston/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/10/elliot176.jpg</image:loc><image:title>elliot176.jpg</image:title><image:caption>Why 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The System Pushes Doctors To Give Unnecessary Care </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/health-industry/primary-care-doctor-shortage/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/10/physicangraphic300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>physicangraphic300.jpg</image:title><image:caption>Health Bills In Congress Won't Fix Doctor Shortage 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Reform</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/101909cohn/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/101909hoth/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/hoth-transcript-14/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/baucus-public-plan/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicare/npr-medicare-payment-fix/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:18:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicare/stabenow-and-doc-fix/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/10/stabenow397.jpg</image:loc><image:title>stabenow397.jpg</image:title><image:caption>Advocates 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Consumers</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:17:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/102909trahant/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:17:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/hoth-4/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:17:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/fikry-wellness-q-and-a/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:17:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.6</priority></url><url><loc>/news/pelosi-house-bill/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:17:45+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/medicare/110209cohn/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:17:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/health-insurance-public-option-negligible/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/11/publicoption300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>publicoption300.jpg</image:title><image:caption>Analysis: 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States: Who Should Run Proposed Health Insurance Marketplaces?</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:14:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/npr-cadillac-deal/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:14:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/insurance/price-they-paid/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2010/01/richmond300v2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>richmond300v2.jpg</image:title><image:caption>The Price They 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Public Support For Health Care Faltered</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:14:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/012210goodman/</loc><mobile:mobile/><lastmod>2026-04-16T06:14:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>/news/budget-reconciliation-health-reform/</loc><mobile:mobile/><image:image><image:loc>https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2010/01/brown300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>brown300.jpg</image:title><image:caption>How The Budget Reconciliation Process 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