November 13, 2026 • Republicans and Democrats in North Dakota worked together to limit what people with diabetes have to pay for insulin, joining a growing bipartisan push across the country to protect patients.
Amye and Charlie Joseph of Elizabethton, Tenn., are on opposite sides politically, but have a shared disdain for pharmacy benefit managers, known as PBMs. Earl Neikirk/KFF Health News hide caption
October 5, 2026 • Republicans and Democrats, both patients and politicians, seem united in their disdain for the healthcare companies known as pharmacy benefit managers. Tennessee and Arkansas are regulating them now.
September 1, 2026 • Democrats and Republicans in Troy, N.Y., took on a national Catholic health system and kept the county's last birthing center open.
Kids from a local Scouting group helped the Rev. John Jackman celebrate at Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as the church marked the end of its latest Debt Jubilee Project to buy up and retire medical debt. Allison Lee Isley/KFF Health News hide caption
June 28, 2026 • Trinity Moravian Church, a politically diverse congregation in Winston-Salem, N. C., has been raising money to retire medical debt in the surrounding community.
Clockwise from upper left: Katie Martin, Lexy Mealing, John Manna and Mary Catherine Johnson. They differ on politics, but they all came to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress to support aid for people with the deadly disease. Charlotte Kesl for KFF Health News hide caption
October 21, 2025 • Hundreds of volunteer advocates put partisan differences aside and pressed Congress to help people with cancer. The advocacy came just before the stalemate that has shut down the federal government.
An old mine cart is parked outside the Gila County Historical Museum in Globe, Ariz. Mining is still part of the local economy, but many area residents have low-wage jobs that make them eligible for Medicaid. Linda Gross for KFF Health News hide caption
May 28, 2025 • Medicaid plays a vital role in many rural communities that favored President Trump in the 2024 election. But residents still seem open to Republican plans to cut perceived waste in the program.
Samantha and Ariane Buck have struggled with medical debt for years, making it difficult at times to provide for their children. A ballot measure in their state of Arizona to cap interest rates on medical debt passed overwhelmingly, fueled by support from Democrats and Republicans. Ash Ponders for KFF Health News hide caption
October 7, 2024 • State lawmakers from both parties are expanding protections for patients burdened by medical debt.
