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Chaseedaw Giles, audience engagement editor and digital strategist, creates social media campaigns and organizes events and panel discussions for KFF Health News to promote the newsroom’s breadth of health care and health policy expertise. Touching on issues at the intersection of health care, social media, and culture, her byline has…

Phil Galewitz, senior correspondent, covers Medicaid, Medicare, long-term care, hospitals, and various state health issues. He has covered health for more than three decades. He is a former board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. As a Kaiser Media Fellow in 2004-05, he wrote about community solutions for…

Angela Hart, senior correspondent, covers health care politics and policy in California and the West, with a focus on California Gov. Gavin Newsom, government accountability, and political influence. She has been reporting on health care for more than five years, and has won awards for her work on homelessness, public…

In his new column, KFF CEO Drew Altman discusses how America’s mental health crisis affects families. The number of families experiencing a serious mental health-related event is large enough to constitute a crisis within the larger mental health crisis.

David Hilzenrath, Washington correspondent, joined the staff in 2022. Before that, as editor-in-chief and chief investigative reporter at the Project on Government Oversight, he led its investigative team to 10 journalism awards. During more than two decades as a reporter for The Washington Post, he wrote extensively about the intersection…

Rae Ellen Bichell, Colorado correspondent for KFF Health News, is based in Longmont. Previously, she was a radio reporter covering the region for the Mountain West News Bureau and KUNC. Before moving to Colorado, Rae worked for NPR. She gained experience in the newsrooms of Nashville Public Radio and KNKX…

Holly K. Hacker, data editor, previously was an investigative reporter at The Dallas Morning News, writing stories and analyzing data about health care, housing, education, politics, and business. She also spent many years covering education there, as well as for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Ventura County Star in…

Katheryn Houghton, Montana correspondent, covers health policy and politics, access to treatment, and the business of health care in that state. Previously, she reported on health care issues for newspapers including the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and the Daily Inter Lake. Katheryn was an Association of Health Care Journalists fellow. She…

KFF President and CEO Drew Altman explains why data and facts, policy plans and lists of accomplishments do not connect with many voters. Understanding the symbolic dimensions of politics and issues is critical for experts. We can reach a share of the public with facts and data but need additional strategies to reach everyone, including storytelling and trusted messengers.

This tracker provides a listing of global health-related legislation introduced in the current Congress.