Latest KFF Health News Stories
9/11 Workers Reach Settlement Deadline
Thousands of workers suing New York City over health problems related to the 9/11 cleanup operations must decide whether to join a massive legal settlement or take their cases to trial.
Employers Struggle With Increasing Costs To Insure Workers
Employers struggle with increasing costs to insure workers and cover health care costs.
Firms Pursue New Digital Technologies To Meet Stimulus- and Health Law-Fueled Provider Demand
Health IT companies hope to cash in on new government-driven demand for their products while their physician customers hope they’ll get some savings, too.
Government Cutting Premiums For Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan
The Department of Health and Human Services hopes to spur lagging enrollment by making the coverage for people with medical conditions more affordable.
Hospitals In Tennessee, Oregon Invest In New Growth
News outlets report on the hospital markets in Tennessee and Oregon.
Anthem braces for the challenges of implementing the health overhaul while Cigna offers a report about consumer-directed health plans.
Health Reform Updates: Biotech Grants, Privacy Issues And Birth Control Coverage
Firms vying to tap the fund a $1 billion fund meant to catalyze research on new biologic treatments for cancer and other diseases may be disappointed in the outcome.
A CMS “national coverage review” is reigniting a familiar debate about whether some treatments are too costly for Medicare coverage.
Seniors Need To Check Options As Medicare Advantage Plans Change, Drop Out
As Medicare’s open season approaches, seniors should check out changs in Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug plans to see what is the best option.
Doctors Abandon Traditional Practice For Concierge Medicine, Hospital Employment
News outlets report on trends in physician employment.
First Edition: November 8, 2010
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including more post-mortem reports about the health law’s impact on the election.
GOP Prepares To Challenge Health Law On Federal, State Levels
On Sunday talk shows and in news outlets, Republicans said they would manuever to repeal or change the health reform law.
“People around the globe are healthier, richer and better educated than ever before, with most developing countries registering huge gains over the last 40 years, a U.N. report [.pdf] released Thursday shows,” the Canadian Press reports.
Hurricane Tomas Hits Haiti’s Tent Camps, Could Complicate Efforts To Stem Cholera Outbreak
Tropical storm Tomas “is on a path toward the island of Hispaniola and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane and make landfall Friday, with possible winds of 74 mph and heavy rains,” PBS’ NewsHour reports.
“Tiny variants in a protein that alerts the body to infection could explain how one in 300 HIV-infected people are able to resist the onset of AIDS for years without needing any treatment, researchers said Thursday” in a study published online in the journal Science, Agence France-Presse reports (11/4). “The findings are encouraging for the development of vaccines because they tell scientists how the immune system might be manipulated to fend off HIV,” the Independent writes (Connor, 11/5).
Global Food Security Fund Announces $97M In Grants For Ethiopia, Mongolia, Niger
The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) has awarded a second round of grants worth $97 million to Ethiopia, Mongolia and Niger for projects aimed at fighting hunger and poverty, the Treasury Department said on Thursday, Agence France-Presse reports.
Al Jazeera examines what the outcomes of two international trade agreement negotiations
Republicans Governors Part Of Health Law Fight
Republicans are focusing their fight on the health law, although they acknowledge it is likely to remain intact for the time being. In addition, newly elected Republican governors eye how they can make a difference in the battle against the law.
Party Leaders Stake Out Individual Positions For New Debate On Health Overhaul
Individual Republicans and Democrats began staking out their positions on the health overhaul quickly after the elections.
