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This is a topic that RFK Jr./MAHA and many Native Americans agree on: The need for better access to healthier food.

.Secretary Kennedy said he'd like to help rollout more AI, including robotic nurses, in Native American communiites to address health care gaps. Some in the crowd respond, "no." Via Katheryn Houghton

Next stop on the #MAHA tour, Secretary Kennedy toured Native Health Mesa, an FQHC that among other things provides integrated health services and food assistance. Clinic staffers said the focus of the visit was healthy foods and the impact nutrition has on preventing chronic disease.

NEW: This year will likely make history, as a bill establishing Indigenous Peoples Day is poised to become law. Senate Bill 224 now heads to the governor's desk — marking the most significant progress the legislation has made in a decade. montanafreepress.org/2025/04/10/bil…

On his last day of the #MAHA tour, Secretary Kennedy met with Navajo Nation leadership to learn more about what health issues are on their radar. Here's a glimpse of more reporting to come from KFF Health News

NEW: Republicans are pushing to implement work requirements for Medicaid recipients. Some states try to help enrollees find jobs. But states lack the data to show whether they’re effective. 📝: Sam Whitehead + Phil Galewitz + Katheryn Houghton kffhealthnews.org/news/article/m…

“Somebody who's having a mental health crisis — they don't belong here,” said Lake County Attorney James Lapotka as he stood in one of the local jail’s isolation cells. Article by Katheryn Houghton #mtleg cbsnews.com/news/mental-he… KFF Health News via CBS News

Vincent River, who has worked as the jail’s sole mental health clinician for 25 years, said many people imprisoned in crisis gradually get better and leave isolation. Some don’t. “They languish there, psychotic and lonely, at the mercy of what the voices are telling them.”

Breaking: A group of Montana students, families and tribes reached a settlement agreement with the Montana Board of Public Education — a major development in a years-long class action lawsuit regarding the implementation of Indian Education for All. montanafreepress.org/2025/05/05/und…

A new survey finds that more Americans are hearing false claims about measles and the vaccine that prevents it, and changes to federal health funding have advocates worried about addiction services. Katheryn Houghton delivers the KFF Health News Minute. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/l…

NEW: Ed Bolen of the Center on Budget said The FGA has a pattern of proposing technical changes to existing laws and “unworkable work requirements” that cause people to lose benefits. Katheryn Houghton + Samantha Liss report. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/m…

Federal law says #Medicaid must cover out-of-state emergency care. But what happens when hospitals won't bill your state Medicaid program? This FL man owed nearly $78,000 from Monument Health in SD. My Bill of the Month story in the The Washington Post wapo.st/3HeSOOZ

There are 500 dispensaries in MT, and it's a $400M industry. But there's only 1 privately-run lab in Missoula to test it all for pesticides and debris. After the state raised the # of pesticides to be tested, 150 products got recalled. via Seaborn Larson missoulian.com/news/state-reg…

“It is penny wise, pound foolish,” Xavier Becerra responds to Angela Hart about Republican and Democratic proposals to cut health coverage for immigrants without legal residency. #AHCJ convention

So far, Indian Health Service has mostly been spared in the fed's widespread scale back. But tribal nations and orgs have lost funding elsewhere in the melee of cuts. “You’re disrupting real lives,” said Navajo council delegate, Cherilyn Yazzie. A collab with Arielle Zionts and Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez