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How Rural Communities Are Losing Their Pharmacies

By Markian Hawryluk November 15, 2021 KFF Health News Original

More than 1,000 independent rural pharmacies have closed since 2003, leaving 630 communities with no retail drugstore. As 41 million people stuck in pharmacy deserts make do, the remaining drugstores struggle to survive.

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As Workers Struggle With Pandemic’s Impact, Employers Expand Mental Health Benefits

By Michelle Andrews November 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Many job-based health plans broadened their mental health and substance use coverage to make sure workers had the support they needed this year as pandemic stress lingered, the annual KFF survey finds. Also, the proportion of employers offering health insurance to their workers remained steady, and increases for premiums and out-of-pocket health expenses were moderate.

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Patients Went Into the Hospital for Care. After Testing Positive There for Covid, Some Never Came Out.

By Christina Jewett November 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

About 21% of patients diagnosed with covid during a hospital stay died, according to data analyzed for KHN. In-hospital rates of spread varied widely and patients had no way of checking them.

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Scientists Search for Cause of Mysterious Covid-Related Inflammation in Children

By Liz Szabo October 20, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Scientists treating kids for MIS-C point to rare genes, leaky guts and a “superantigen.”

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The Public Backs Medicare Rx Price Negotiation Even After Hearing Both Sides’ Views

By Amanda Michelle Gomez October 12, 2021 KFF Health News Original

But Americans generally have little confidence that the White House or Congress will recommend the right thing, a new poll shows.

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Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites

By Lauren Weber September 30, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The pandemic is devastating rural America, where lower vaccination rates are compounding the already limited medical care.

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Home Births Gain Popularity in ‘Baby Bust’ Decade

By Phillip Reese September 22, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Over the past decade, California has seen a sustained rise in the proportion of people who opt to give birth at home or in midwife-run birthing centers rather than in a hospital. Covid has further fueled that trend.

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California’s Reboot of Troubled Medi-Cal Puts Pressure on Health Plans

By Bernard J. Wolfson Photos by Heidi de Marco September 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The nine commercial insurers in Medi-Cal must reapply by submitting bids for new contracts. The state hopes the process will improve care for low-income residents and tighten accountability, something critics say has been missing.

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Scientists Examine Kids’ Unique Immune Systems as More Fall Victim to Covid

By Liz Szabo September 17, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Doctors are trying to figure out why some kids become much sicker than others and, in rare cases, don’t survive.

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Over Half of States Have Rolled Back Public Health Powers in Pandemic

By Lauren Weber and Anna Maria Barry-Jester September 15, 2021 KFF Health News Original

At least 26 states have passed laws to permanently limit public health powers, a KHN investigation has found, weakening the country’s ability to fight not only the current resurgence of the pandemic but other health crises to come.

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Medicaid Vaccination Rates Founder as States Struggle to Immunize Their Poorest Residents

By Phil Galewitz August 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Efforts by states and the private health plans that many states pay to cover low-income Americans has been scattershot and hampered by a lack of data.

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Biden’s No-Jab-No-Job Order Creates Quandary for Nursing Homes

By Jordan Rau and Andy Miller August 20, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Nursing home operators acknowledge that large numbers of staff members are not getting the shots but fear a federal vaccination mandate could drive away workers in a tight labor market.

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Novavax’s Effort to Vaccinate the World, From Zero to Not Quite Warp Speed

By Sarah Jane Tribble and Rachana Pradhan July 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Novavax is a vaccine company that, despite $2 billion in new federal and international funding, still hasn’t come through with a licensed covid vaccine. It hopes it can still help to fight the global covid scourge, but will it deliver?

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California’s Highest Covid Infection Rates Shift to Rural Counties

By Phillip Reese July 7, 2021 KFF Health News Original

As vaccination rates rise across the state, the overall numbers of covid cases and deaths have plunged. But health officials are still reporting nearly 1,000 new cases and more than two dozen deaths a day. So, where does covid continue to simmer in California? And why?

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At Texas Border, Pandemic’s High Toll Lays Bare Gaps in Health and Insurance

By René Kladzyk, El Paso Matters and Phil Galewitz and Elizabeth Lucas June 23, 2021 KFF Health News Original

In Texas’ border communities, which are overwhelmingly Hispanic, covid-19 death rates for people under age 65 were double those in the rest of the state and three times the national average. They were also significantly higher than rates in New Mexico border areas.

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Pandemic Swells Medicaid Enrollment to 80 Million People, a ‘High-Water Mark’

By Phil Galewitz June 17, 2021 KFF Health News Original

More than 80 million Americans with low incomes were receiving health coverage through the federal-state program in January. The program now covers nearly 1 in 4 people nationwide.

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Device Makers Have Funneled Billions to Orthopedic Surgeons Who Use Their Products

By Fred Schulte and Elizabeth Lucas June 17, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Federal officials say that some of the money changing hands has corrupted doctors and endangered patients.

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In Alleged Health Care ‘Money Grab,’ Nation’s Largest Hospital Chain Cashes In on Trauma Centers

By Jay Hancock June 14, 2021 KFF Health News Original

HCA charges patients an “activation fee” of up to $50,000 for trauma teams at centers located in half its 179 hospitals — and they often don’t need trauma care, an analysis of insurance claims data shows.

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Montana Med School Clash Revives For-Profit Vs. Nonprofit Flap

By Victoria Knight June 7, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Two medical schools vie to open in Montana, highlighting the rapid spread of for-profit schools and their previously tarnished business model.

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Caring for an Aging Nation

By Lydia Zuraw and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez May 28, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The number of Americans 65 and older is expected to nearly double in the next 40 years. Finding a way to provide and pay for the long-term health services they need won’t be easy.

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