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The impacts of government shutdowns include furloughed employees, reductions in services, closed parks and museums, and much more.

Many Kentuckians have been remembering the Commonwealth’s 58th governor this week. Friends and family came to the State Capitol Monday where Brereton Jones was lying in state.One of his driving ambitions while governor was to see more citizens find and be able to afford healthcare services.

"The United States has been phenomenal in screwing up vaccinations," one doctor said

With gridlock persisting in Washington, a government shutdown is looking more and more likely days ahead of this weekend's deadline

A federal shutdown would put thousands of Texans in financial precarity. Congress has less than a week left until the end of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, and a shutdown appears imminent.

This debit card provides additional benefits for certain health-related services.

Medicare and Medicaid are mandatory spending programs and that keeps them relatively safe in the early days of the shutdown, but 42% of the Department of Health's staff will be furloughed.

Only 3 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries shop around during open enrollment, according to a 2022 analysis, and only 1 in 10 Medicare Advantage enrollees voluntarily switch plans

'Healthcare is their number one concern.'