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Dialysis Patients Sign Up For November Ballot Fight

By Ana B. Ibarra April 6, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Frustrated by dialysis centers they call dirty and understaffed, patients and health care workers rallied across California Thursday before delivering more than 600,000 signatures to election offices in support of a ballot initiative intended to improve patient care.

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Calif. Leads Nation In Pushing Back Against Trump Administration Health Policies

By Ana B. Ibarra April 20, 2018 KFF Health News Original

In the face of federal efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, policymakers in the largest state are proposing laws and other changes to counter them. Beyond that, they’re aggressively pushing measures to expand health coverage beyond what the ACA envisioned.

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That’s A Lot Of Scratch: The $48,329 Allergy Test

By Barbara Feder Ostrov October 29, 2018 KFF Health News Original

A California college professor never imagined that trying to figure out what was causing her rash could add up to such a huge bill.

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Dissecting The Rhetoric Vs. Reality Of Trump’s Tough Talk On Drug Prices

By Sarah Jane Tribble April 27, 2018 KFF Health News Original

President Donald Trump’s upcoming speech on drug prices comes after months of public comments and debate about tackling the issue.

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Texas Disability Groups Want A Voice At The Table In Gun Debate

By Ashley Lopez, KUT April 23, 2018 KFF Health News Original

A disability rights groups in Texas wants to make sure people who’ve been disabled by gun violence in Texas get a chance to talk to lawmakers.

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Readers And Tweeters Revisit Surgery Centers, Think Twice About Single-Payer

August 24, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

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Anthem Accuses Cigna Of Doing Everything In Its Power To Sabotage $49B Merger

February 26, 2019 Morning Briefing

Now that the deal has fallen apart, Cigna is seeking more than $16 billion in damages and termination fees, while Anthem claims it’s owed $20 billion in damages because of Cigna’s intransigence in turning over information to push the merger forward.

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Inmigrantes pagan mucho más en seguros de salud de lo que gastan en atención

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez October 1, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Un estudio publicado halló que los inmigrantes con seguro de salud privados y sus empleadores contribuyeron con casi $25 mil millones más en primas en 2014 de lo que gastaron en atención médica.

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Hidden FDA Reports Detail Harm Caused By Scores Of Medical Devices

By Christina Jewett Photos by Heidi de Marco March 7, 2019 KFF Health News Original

The Food and Drug Administration has let medical device companies file reports of injuries and malfunctions outside a widely scrutinized public database, leaving doctors and medical sleuths in the dark.

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Well-Known Transgender Surgeon Resigns Following Furor Over Instagram Pictures Of Patients’ Genitals

March 15, 2019 Morning Briefing

Dr. Christopher Salgado, 50, worked at the L.G.B.T.Q. Center for Wellness, Gender and Sexual Health at the University of Miami Health System. “The purpose really was to be educational with it, but it went awry,” he said. However, critics were not only upset about the pictures but the captions that appeared to be mocking, as well.

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Desesperados, renuncian a la custodia de sus hijos para que reciban atención mental

By Christine Herman, Side Effects Public Media January 9, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Muchos padres toman esta terrible decisión para que sus hijos puedan recibir costosos tratamientos psiquiátricos. Qué está fallando.

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C-SPAN: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Talks To KHN

April 9, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Kaiser Health News reporter Sarah Jane Tribble sat down with Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program. The conversation ranged from how the nation should combat the opioid epidemic to reining in drug prices.

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Medicare Financial Outlook Worsens

By Phil Galewitz June 5, 2018 KFF Health News Original

The Medicare board of trustees said the program’s hospital insurance trust fund could run out of money by 2026, three years earlier than previously forecast.

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How Soon Is Soon Enough To Learn You Have Alzheimer’s?

By Alex Smith, KCUR July 26, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Only about half of people with Alzheimer’s symptoms get a diagnosis, partly out of fear of an incurable decline, doctors suspect. But Jose Belardo says facing the future allows him to plan for it.

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PrEP Campaign Aims To Block HIV Infection And Save Lives In D.C.

By Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR April 13, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Washington, D.C., is trying to stop new cases of HIV in the district by making sure residents who might be at risk are taking PrEP, medicine that cuts the risk of contracting the virus by 92 percent.

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Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ ACA Under Fire. Again.

July 12, 2018 KFF Health News Original

In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News discuss the health politics of the latest Supreme Court pick, as well as the Trump administration’s efforts to further undermine the Affordable Care Act. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health stories of the week.

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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes July 20, 2018 KFF Health News Original

KHN’s newsletter editor, Brianna Labuskes, wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you don’t have to.

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Insulin’s Steep Price Leads To Deadly Rationing

By Bram Sable-Smith, Side Effects Public Media September 7, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Alec Raeshawn Smith was 23 when diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and 26 when he died. He couldn’t afford $1,300 per month for his insulin and other diabetes supplies. So he tried to stretch the doses.

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States Attacking ACA Would Suffer Most If Preexisting Conditions Shield Gets Axed

By Harriet Blair Rowan July 17, 2018 KFF Health News Original

A coalition of Republican states has launched a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, including provisions requiring insurers to offer coverage to people with preexisting conditions without raising rates. An analysis shows that some of these states have the highest proportion of such residents.

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Juul, el producto de tabaco que consumen estudiantes en las escuelas

By Ana B. Ibarra March 26, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Su parecido con un flash drive hace que sea difícil de detectar. Tiene nicotina y temen que impacte en una nueva generación de fumadores.

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