What You Need To Know About Enrolling In Obamacare’s ‘Exchanges’
KHN’s Jenny Gold was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Monday morning taking questions about the impending enrollment period for the health law’s health insurance marketplaces and what consumers need to know. See related stories: What Obamacare Means For You KHN reporters will be returning to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal each Monday throughout the summer. Tune in each […]
How Will Obamacare Affect Your Medicare Benefits?
KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Monday morning taking questions about how the health law will affect Medicare’s benefits. See related story: Medicare Is Not Part Of New Insurance Marketplaces. KHN reporters will be returning to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal each Monday throughout the summer. Tune in each week to stay informed about […]
How Will Obamacare Affect Employee Health Coverage?
KHN’s Jay Hancock was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Monday morning taking questions about how the health law will affect employee health coverage offered by employers. Hancock reported recently that UPS has told employees it won’t cover their spouses if they can get coverage from their own employer. Read more: UPS Won’t Insure Spouses Of Some […]
Answering Your Questions About The Latest Obamacare Delays
KHN’s Julie Appleby was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Monday morning taking questions about the latest Obamacare implementation delay — this one delaying a provision of the law that limits some consumers’ out-of-pocket expenses for one year. Read more: Consumer Groups Fear Patients Could Be Hit With Large Out-Of-Pocket Costs and Federal Rule Allows Higher Out-Of-Pocket Spending […]
What You Should Know About The Obamacare Delay On Some Out-Of-Pocket Caps
The federal health law brings many big changes to the nation’s health system; in some ways the changes are spelled out in detail in the law, and in other ways we learn about them only as implementation proceeds. As KHN’s Julie Appleby reported in April, and the New York Times reported yesterday, the law’s cap […]
Talking The Health Law’s Impact On Hospitals Serving Medicare Patients
KHN Reporter Jordan Rau was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Monday where he talked about the latest round of readmissions penalties in Medicare. Read more: Armed With Bigger Fines, Medicare To Punish 2,225 Hospitals For Excess Readmissions KHN reporters will be returning to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal each Monday throughout the summer. Tune in each week to stay […]
Making Sense Of Premium Rates In Insurance Marketplaces
KHN Reporter Phil Galewitz was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Monday where he talked about health insurance rates in states’ health law marketplaces. Read more: State Premium Watch: Pricing In The New Insurance Marketplaces KHN reporters will be returning to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal each Monday throughout the summer. Tune in each week to stay informed about the […]
KHN Reporters Answer Health Law Questions
Kaiser Health News’ reporters Mary Agnes Carey, Jay Hancock and Sarah Varney talked about a variety of issues related to the health law’s implementation on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Monday morning. KHN reporters will be returning to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal each Monday throughout the summer. Tune in each week to stay informed about the latest developments […]
Video: New AMA President On Implementing The Health Law
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=313701-1 KHN’s Mary Agnes Carey and The Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff interviewed Dr. Ardis Hoven, the new American Medical Association president, for an episode of the C-SPAN program “Newsmakers” that aired Sunday. The three talked about implementation of the health care law, a shortage of primary care practitioners, as well as the AMA’s decision to […]
Audio: Proton Therapy And Health Care Technology Costs
Proton radiation therapy is a hugely expensive way to treat some cancers, and some have questioned its cost-effectiveness — especially as it relates to other cancer treatments. Jenny Gold joined WNYC Thursday to discuss what makes the therapy so expensive, where the therapy is taking hold and why patients are drawn to this treatment. Press […]
Preparing For Flood Of Consumer Questions On Insurance Exchanges
On Oct. 1, individual consumers and small businesses will be able to enroll in the online health insurance marketplaces known as exchanges. Minnesota, where the state is running the exchange, and Florida, where the federal government will be in charge, are preparing in different ways. Under the Affordable Care Act, most Americans who don’t already have health insurance through employers, Medicare or […]
Audio: 42 Percent Of Americans Unaware Health Law Exists
A new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation says 42 percent of Americans don’t know that the Affordable Care Act actually still stands. (Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Foundation.) Mary Agnes Carey joined NPR’s “Tell Me More” Friday afternoon to discuss the state of the health law and other health policy […]
Audio: Getting To The Bottom Of Hospital Pricing
http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=182295999&m=182295992&t=audio The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released data Wednesday on variations in hospital pricing and how much Medicare has actually paid to individual hospitals for various procedures. Jordan Rau joined NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” Wednesday afternoon to discuss what the data tell us about the the cost of health care and whether […]
Video: What Insurance Exchanges Mean For Consumers
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=312284-5 KHN’s Jenny Gold appeared on the C-SPAN program, Washington Journal, to discuss the insurance exchanges where consumers will be able to purchase coverage beginning Oct. 1. Watch the above video to learn more about these new marketplaces, or read KHN’s FAQ on exchanges and Jenny’s recent story on marketing of the exchanges to consumers.
Health Issues On The Ballot In The States
Sprinkled throughout ballots across the country are state initiatives that run the gamut from education to animal rights to marriage. And health care is well-represented, too. The National Conference of State Legislatures labels health a “key issue” in this cycle’s roundup of state ballot questions. Here is a selection of those referenda, as reported by our […]
Breaking Down The Debate, Word-By-Word
President Barack Obama and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney had plenty to say about health care in the first debate in Denver Wednesday night. Here are they words they chose — with the most-frequently used words shown larger — during the discussions about health policy issues during the debate. Obama words: Romney’s words:
“Health Savings Accounts”? I Have Bingo!
Here we go again (to paraphrase a memorable debate line). It’s time for the first installment of this campaign’s presidential debates: Wednesday at 9 p.m Eastern we will all tune in to watch 90 minutes of President Barack Obama and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney finding new and creative ways of deflecting criticism. Kaiser Health News feels your […]
Comparing Care In States Vs. Territories … Plus More
Every week, Kaiser Health News reporter Shefali S. Kulkarni compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs for Kaiser Health News’ Daily Report. This week, Research Roundup includes: The Archives of Internal Medicine examines care in U.S. states vs. U.S. territories. The Journal of General Internal Medicine looks at the use of social media […]
Today’s Headlines – July 1, 2011
Happy Friday! Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations include decisions by Medicare officials on covering two expensive drugs and states struggling with budget cuts. The New York Times: Medicare Will Continue To Cover 2 Expensive Cancer Drugs Medicare confirmed on Thursday that it would continue to pay for two expensive cancer drugs that had […]
