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Trump Highlights Health Agenda With Vow To Lower ‘Unfair’ Drug Prices

By Julie Rovner February 6, 2019 KFF Health News Original

The president laid out a series of goals, including lowering prescription prices, pursuing an end to the HIV epidemic and boosting funding for childhood cancers.

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California Looks To Lead Nation In Unraveling Childhood Trauma

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester March 6, 2019 KFF Health News Original

The Golden State, in a movement spearheaded by its first-ever surgeon general, stands to become a vanguard for the nation in tracing adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, to the onset of physical and mental illness. But what can a pediatrician, with her 15-minute time slots and extensive to-do list, do about the ills of an absent parent or a neighborhood riddled with gun violence?

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HHS Finalizes Rule Seeking To Expel Planned Parenthood From Family Planning Program

By Julie Rovner February 22, 2019 KFF Health News Original

The new regulation would drop previous rules for the Title X program requiring that women with unintended pregnancies be told about all options, including abortion. It would also mandate that organizations separate facilities providing federally funded services from those providing abortions.

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Mulvaney: Trump Brought Down Drug Prices For The First Time In 50 Years

By Shefali Luthra April 15, 2019 KFF Health News Original

It’s “within spitting distance of something that’s true,” said one health economist. But our fact check found it wasn’t quite there.

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CMS Crafts Plan B Over 340B Hospital Reimbursement Cuts In Response To Judge’s Ruling

July 31, 2019 Morning Briefing

A federal judge earlier in the year blocked the Trump administration’s Medicare cuts to 340B hospitals, saying the new rates aren’t lawful for 2018 and 2019. However, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras did not grant hospitals the permanent injunction. Now CMS is walking a careful line with its new proposal. Other news from CMS involves hospital prices, transparency in quality information, patient data, and more.

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TV Ads Must Trumpet Drug Prices, Trump Administration Says. Pharma Tries A Plan B.

By Shefali Luthra and Sarah Jane Tribble October 15, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Drug pricing is a top issue in the run-up to the midterm elections.

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Even Doctors Can’t Navigate Our ‘Broken Health Care System’

By Judith Graham May 2, 2019 KFF Health News Original

A physician’s frustration navigating a medical emergency with his elderly father reveals a complex, dysfunctional system.

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Very Odd Flu Season: It’s Highly Active Among Young Children, Getting Off To Earliest Start In Years

December 13, 2019 Morning Briefing

Another difference is the type of influenza being seen in parts of the south: Type B is preceding Type A. So far, the northeast is being spared, but it’s coming, health specialists warn. Public health news is on aims to get consistent results in psychology studies, ways to reduce the risk of dying, treatment of volcano burn victims, and a potential HIV vaccine, as well.

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In Potential Opioids Lawsuits Settlement, Purdue Pharma Offers $10B-$12B And For Sackler Family To Cede Control Of Company

August 28, 2019 Morning Briefing

According to reports on settlement talks, the bulk of the funds would come from restructuring Purdue Pharma under a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that would transform it from a private company into a “public beneficiary trust.” That would allow the profits from all drug sales, including the opioid painkiller OxyContin, to go to the plaintiffs of a nationwide consolidated lawsuit over the alleged role drugmakers played in the epidemic. The company would also give its addiction treatment drugs to the public without cost.

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Newsom Diverges Sharply From Washington With Health Care Budget

By Samantha Young and Ana B. Ibarra January 11, 2019 KFF Health News Original

California Gov. Gavin Newsom made health care a priority in his proposed state budget, asking lawmakers to authorize state-funded financial aid for health insurance, impose a penalty on uninsured Californians and expand Medicaid coverage to unauthorized immigrants.

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Meth Vs. Opioids: America Has Two Drug Epidemics, But Focuses On One

By April Dembosky, KQED May 7, 2019 KFF Health News Original

In the West and Midwest, 70% of local law enforcement says meth is the bigger threat. It’s also a more difficult addiction to treat.

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Planned Parenthood’s ‘Risky Strategy’ To Update Its Image

By Shefali Luthra and Anna Maria Barry-Jester April 17, 2019 KFF Health News Original

The nation’s largest reproductive health services provider is in the midst of a high-stakes effort to showcase what it considers its vital role in providing community health care.

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New York Life Eyeing Cigna’s Business That Sells Non-Medical Insurance Through Employers In Possible $6B Deal

December 11, 2019 Morning Briefing

Cigna has been working to trim debt after last year’s acquisition of pharmacy-benefits manager Express Scripts Holding Co. for $54 billion. In other news from the health industry: a corporation misses the deadline to close the deal on four Verity Health hospitals and a look at the small Medicare reduction that could make a big difference in premiums.

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Hospitals Check To See If Patients Are Donor-Worthy — Not Their Organs, But Pockets

By Phil Galewitz January 28, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Hospitals often contract with market data firms to screen patients’ wealth. That software allows the hospitals to gauge patients’ propensity to donate based on public records, including property and stock ownership and campaign donations.

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Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Potentially Monumental Case Over Extent To Which States Can Regulate PBMs

January 13, 2020 Morning Briefing

Pharmacy benefits managers, the controversial middlemen in the drug pipeline, are a favorite target to blame for higher prescription drug costs. A Supreme Court decision on how much oversight states can place on PMBs could send shock waves through the debate over health care costs. In other pharmaceutical news: genetic testing and proprietary data, lax oversight of the 340B drug program, a startup with the possible answer to high drug costs, and more.

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Hospitales infantiles claman de nuevo por la ayuda de los votantes, pero ¿la necesitan?

By Ana B. Ibarra October 18, 2018 KFF Health News Original

A pesar de la naturaleza positiva de estos pedidos, algunos expertos en salud y analistas electorales cuestionan que los hospitales le pidan dinero tantas veces a los contribuyentes.

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Children’s Hospitals Again Cry For Help From Voters. But Are They Really Hurting?

By Ana B. Ibarra October 18, 2018 KFF Health News Original

California’s 13 children’s hospitals are asking voters in November to approve $1.5 billion in bonds to help them pay for construction and equipment, the third such measure in 14 years. Some health care experts and election analysts believe the repeated financial requests aren’t justified.

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Costly Confusion: Medicare’s Wellness Visit Isn’t The Same As An Annual Physical

By Michelle Andrews March 20, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Medicare doesn’t pay for an annual physical, but it does cover an annual wellness visit focused on preventing disease and disability by coming up with a “personalized prevention plan” for future medical issues. It is important to use the correct term when scheduling a doctor’s visit.

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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes

By Brianna Labuskes January 4, 2019 KFF Health News Original

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

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Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ ‘Medicare-For-All’ For Dummies

February 14, 2019 KFF Health News Original

The “Medicare–for-all” debate is already in full swing, but what does that phrase even mean? Joanne Kenen of Politico, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call join KHN’s Julie Rovner for a beginner’s guide to the next big health policy debate. For “extra credit,” the panelists provide their favorite health policy stories of the week, and as a special Valentine’s Day bonus, their favorite #HealthPolicyValentines.

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