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What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

NC Health News

Its been little over a year since the measure took effect, and we now have a clearer picture of what it accomplished: more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians received health insurance through expansion, surpassing in just 12 months a milestone the state estimated would take at least two years to reach.

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Four key takeaways as Trump’s sweeping HHS layoffs begin

The Hill

Thousands of employees across the vast Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began receiving layoff notices as early as 5 a.m. Entire divisions were axed across multiple agencies, including much of the Food and Drug Administrations communications and media affairs staff. on Tuesday. Kennedy Jr.