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As 2018 elections loom and the opioid crisis weighs heavy on voters' minds, the Ways and Means Committee is expected to begin marking up bills intended to curb opioid abuse.
For ever woman who dies, there are 70 who come close. And the rate of severe complications from childbirth has been rising faster than the rate of women who died.
Vermont's program -- that both incentivizes doctors to keep patients as healthy as possible and focuses on social factors that play a role in people's wellbeing -- is expected to be within 1 percent of meeting its financial target. Meanwhile, insurers look beyond just the doctor's office, in an effort to cut costs.
The agency warns states that didn't expand Medicaid that their requests need to include a plan to avoid the “subsidy cliff,” in which a person earns too much to keep their Medicaid coverage and too little to qualify for a tax credit on the insurance exchange. News on Medicaid comes out of Iowa, Michigan and Virginia, as well.
Voters have signaled that health care will be a key issue in the elections, and Democrats hope that the tables have turned from previous election cycles when they were on the defense. Meanwhile, the federal penalty for the individual mandate may be gone, but that doesn't mean everyone can eschew insurance.
Sometimes it's a medication's side effects that end up being the most beneficial and profitable, and researchers don't want to just rely on luck anymore to discover those unforeseen purposes for the drugs. Meanwhile, activists in Massachusetts are calling for more affordable insulin, and a look at the EpiPen shortage.
President Donald Trump's long-anticipated speech on curbing drug prices focused on reducing inefficiencies in the current system, rather than taking swings at pharmaceutical companies. Trump had a few barbs for the industry, noting that “the drug lobby is making an absolute fortune at the expense of customers,” but the only proposal that specifically dealt with prescription drug pricing was a suggestion that a treatment’s cost be disclosed in its advertisements.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Editorial writers focus on these and other health topics.
Writers offer perspectives on the opioid crisis.
As Mother's Day approaches, columnists offer their opinions on women's health care.
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.
Media outlets report on news from Massachusetts, Colorado, North Carolina, California, Missouri, Indiana, Florida, Oregon, Wisconsin, Iowa, Wyoming, Louisiana, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
The Des Moines Register examines Iowa's mental health crisis and where law enforcement is having to step in to fill the gaps the system has created.
No one should ever “second-guess” themselves if they think they are experiencing the symptoms of a heart attack. Along with chest pain and fatigue, symptoms can include neck, jaw, back or abdominal pain.
The improvements are more subtle than early visions of AI curing cancer, but experts say changes are benefiting patients. In other public health news: cancer drugs, anxiety, e-cigarettes, fatal falls, kidney stones, and more.
“The big takeaway is we need more research, plain and simple,” said Dr. Ilana Braun of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, who led the study published Thursday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The moves come at a time when experts are already warning that the country is underprepared to handle a major public health crisis.
Native American tribes are among those the opioid epidemic has hit the hardest, though scant attention has been paid to how the crisis is ripping through their communities. At least 20 tribes have formally sued opioid manufacturers and distributors, with at least 10 more suits expected to be filed soon. In other news on the crisis: discarded syringes; staffing shortages' effects on regulating opioids coming into the country; the impact of the epidemic on rural communities; and more.
New enthusiasm for adding work requirements to states' Medicaid program is running headlong into Native American rights. HHS' legal office has made the judgment that exempting Native Americans from the rules would be an illegal racial preference. But some other agency officials and Republicans in Congress don't share that view. Meanwhile, one GOP lawmaker is calling for mandatory work requirements for all Medicaid beneficiaries.
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