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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Expanding the ACA in an Unpredicted Way

Beyond the billions of dollars aimed squarely at the pandemic, the covid relief bill cleared by Congress this week includes significant changes to health policy. Among them are the first major expansions to the Affordable Care Act since its enactment 11 years ago and changes that could expand coverage for the Medicaid program. Tami Luhby of CNN, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.

March 11, 2021

COVID-19

Meet the Retired Nurse Who Could Give Covid Shots But Couldn’t Get One

She followed up on every possible avenue that would allow her to register for a vaccination appointment. Ultimately, it took a 40-minute drive and someone else’s cancellation to make it happen.

By Victoria Knight

March 11, 2021

COVID-19

High Obesity Rates in Southern States Magnify Covid Threat

In the American South — home to nine of the nation’s 12 heaviest states — obesity is playing a role not only in covid outcomes, but in the calculus of the vaccination rollout.

By Sarah Varney

March 11, 2021

COVID-19

One Year In: How Covid’s Toll Compares With Other Causes of Death

Covid-19 has become the country’s third-leading cause of death, and isn’t far behind cancer.

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact

March 11, 2021

Lost on the Frontline

In a Year of Zoom Memorials, Art Exhibit Makes Space for Grief

After his father died, artist Taiji Terasaki created a ritual to memorialize him. Now, Terasaki honors front-line health care workers who succumbed to covid with an exhibit inspired by “Lost on the Frontline,” the investigation by KHN and The Guardian.

By Anna Almendrala

March 11, 2021

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COVID-19

Vaccine Altruists Find Appointments for Those Who Can’t

An army of volunteers help people who otherwise would have had difficulty securing a covid vaccination because of cumbersome computer or telephone registration systems.

By Anna Almendrala

March 11, 2021

COVID-19

For Covid ‘Long Haulers,’ Battling for Disability Benefits Adds Aggravation to Exhaustion

Early in the pandemic, many patients couldn’t be tested. The lack of a covid diagnosis complicates disability insurance for those whose illness continues.

By David Tuller

March 10, 2021

Maria Skladzien sits in her wheelchair on a sidewalk

Texas Winter Storm Exposes Gaps in Senior Living Oversight

As the recent winter storm disaster in Texas showed, many long-term care sites aren’t required to have backup power supplies or other redundancies to keep residents safe when disaster strikes.

By Sandy West

March 10, 2021

COVID-19

Pfizer’s Newest Vaccine Plant Has Persistent Mold Issues, History of Recalls

After nearly a decade’s worth of federal inspections, reprimands and corrective action plans, has Pfizer fixed the facility that will be filling vials of its covid vaccine?

By Sarah Jane Tribble

March 10, 2021

COVID-19

What Childhood Vaccine Rates Can, and Can’t, Teach Us About Covid Vaccines

Hesitancy toward routine childhood vaccines doesn’t necessarily predict hesitancy toward a covid shot.

By Rae Ellen Bichell

March 10, 2021

COVID-19

In Alabama, South Carolina and Louisiana, CVS Vaccine Appointments Go Unfilled

Dozens of open appointment slots in the three Southern states last week stood in sharp contrast to states such as Delaware, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, where spots generally were claimed by midmorning or earlier.

By Phil Galewitz

March 9, 2021

COVID-19

Without a Pandemic Safety Net, Immigrants Living Illegally in US Fall Through the Cracks

Many undocumented immigrants are essential workers at high risk of exposure to the virus — and the pandemic’s economic crash — with no direct access to federal financial lifelines available to U.S. citizens.

By LJ Dawson

March 9, 2021

COVID-19

Ouch! Needle-Phobic People Scarred by So Many Images of Covid Shots

The pictures are on the nightly news, on billboards, bus stop posters and all over social media. How can people who fear needles manage to get their covid shots?

By Julie Appleby

March 9, 2021

Behind The Byline: Reporting Road Trip

Check out KHN’s video series — Behind The Byline: How the Story Got Made. Come along as journalists and producers offer an insider’s view of health care coverage that does not quit.

By Aneri Pattani

March 9, 2021

Portrait of Stephanie Salazar-Rodriguez at her home

Pandemic Aid Package Includes Relief From High Premiums

Experts say the two-year expansion of subsidies for most people who buy insurance through the government exchanges would be among the most significant changes to the affordability of private insurance since the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

By Emmarie Huetteman

March 9, 2021

a mom, dad, young boy and young girl pose for a family photo outdoors

Push Is On for States to Ban Organ Transplant Discrimination

States are passing laws that would prevent people with Down syndrome, autism and other disabilities from being denied transplants solely because of their conditions.

By Sara Reardon

March 8, 2021

COVID-19

On Vacci-Dating: Singles Seem Enamored of Sharing Vaccination Status Online. Is That Wise?

When considering whether to meet up with someone who is vaccinated versus unvaccinated, vaccinated sounds somewhat safer. But before you give pandemic dating a shot, heed these warnings from experts.

By Victoria Knight

March 8, 2021

KHN & PolitiFact HealthCheck

Biden’s Criticism of Trump Team’s Vaccine Contracts Is a Stretch

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. had agreed to buy at least 1 billion doses of covid vaccine, enough to vaccinate 550 million people. Those agreements, though, applied to vaccines that were authorized as well as those still in development. And the Biden team had the advantage of 20/20, experts say.

By Victoria Knight

March 8, 2021

KHN On Air

Journalists Dissect Covid Vaccines and Variants

KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

March 6, 2021

COVID-19

California’s Vaccine Appointment Website Has Glitches. No Surprise?

Experts give poor usability ratings to My Turn, the new statewide sign-up app for covid vaccination. But with so many problems plaguing the vaccination effort, it seems unreasonable to have expected this one to work perfectly.

By Miranda Green

March 5, 2021

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