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California Counties ‘Flying the Plane as We Build It’ in a Plodding Vaccine Rollout

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester January 14, 2021 KFF Health News Original

In California, the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history is run largely by the same overworked and underfunded local health departments tasked with covid-19 testing and contact tracing. It’s a daunting undertaking as the pandemic continues to surge.

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Pediatricians Want Kids to Be Part of COVID Vaccine Trials

By Arthur Allen December 15, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Some years from now, infants and school-aged children will probably be the mainstay of a universal vaccination program against COVID-19 in the United States. But first, doctors want to be sure that newfangled vaccines won’t harm them.

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As Pandemic Eases, Many Seniors Have Lost Strength, May Need Rehabilitative Services

By Judith Graham May 21, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A little-discussed, long-term toll of the pandemic is that large numbers of older adults have become physically and cognitively debilitated and less able to care for themselves after sheltering in place.

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Oklahoma House Passes Anti-Abortion Bill Like Texas’, Only Stricter

May 20, 2022 Morning Briefing

Under the new law, “fertilization” is defined as the moment egg and sperm meet, and it also prohibits medicine-induced abortions (beyond when Plan B pills work). The bill moved to the desk of Gov. Kevin Stitt, who is expected to sign it. For more longer-read stories about abortion and the current threat to reproductive health in the U.S., scroll down to our Weekend Reading section.

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When False Information Goes Viral, COVID-19 Patient Groups Fight Back

By Alex Smith, KCUR November 12, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Fear and uncertainty about the coronavirus have made online patient support groups fertile ground for the spread of misinformation. But some in these groups make fact-checking a part of the mission to support fellow COVID sufferers.

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How to Pull Off a COVID-Era Music Festival

By Chaseedaw Giles December 16, 2020 KFF Health News Original

One woman’s attempt to create a festival celebrating diverse music ran up against the reality of the pandemic this year. But it also yielded lessons in how to reimagine events in the COVID era.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Biden Budget Touches All the Bases

March 10, 2023 Podcast

Very little in the proposed budget released by the Biden administration is likely to become law, particularly with Republicans in charge of the U.S. House. Still, the document is an important statement of the president’s policy priorities, and it’s clear health programs are among those he feels are important. Meanwhile, five women who were denied abortions when their pregnancies threatened their lives are suing Texas. Shefali Luthra of The 19th, Victoria Knight of Axios, and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Harris Meyer, who reported and wrote the two latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” features. Both were about families facing unexpected bills following childbirth.

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In Austin, Some Try to Address Vaccine Inequity, but a Broad Plan Is Elusive

By Ashley Lopez, KUT February 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The east side of Austin has few of the chain stores key to the Texas vaccination plan. But local officials have done pop-up vaccination events in the community to get more shots to Blacks and Latinos.

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Becerra Tells Medicare To Review Premiums After Aduhelm Price Drop

January 11, 2022 Morning Briefing

The demand from Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is “highly unusual,” Stat reports. Becerra’s actions could lead to lower Medicare Part B costs — after standard premiums jumped 15% for 2022.

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‘An Arm and a Leg’: David vs. Goliath: How to Beat a Big Hospital in Small Claims Court

By Dan Weissmann November 2, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In a classic — and hilarious — David vs. Goliath story, Jeffrey Fox takes on a huge hospital over an outrageous bill, and wins.

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Device Makers Have Funneled Billions to Orthopedic Surgeons Who Use Their Products

By Fred Schulte and Elizabeth Lucas June 17, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Federal officials say that some of the money changing hands has corrupted doctors and endangered patients.

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America’s Obesity Epidemic Threatens Effectiveness of Any COVID Vaccine

By Sarah Varney August 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Vaccines engineered to protect the public from influenza, hepatitis B, tetanus and rabies are less effective for obese people, leaving them more vulnerable to serious illness. As scientists race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, experts say obesity could prove an impediment — a sobering prospect for a nation in which nearly half of all adults are obese.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Year-End Bill Holds Big Health Changes

January 5, 2023 Podcast

The year-end spending bill passed by Congress in late December contains a wide array of health-related provisions, including a structure for states to begin to disenroll people on Medicaid whose coverage has been maintained through the pandemic. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is taking steps to make the abortion pill more widely available. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post join KHN’s chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Mark Kreidler, who reported and wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature about a billing mix-up that took about a year to sort out.

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Michigan’s Outbreak Worries Scientists. Will Conservative Outposts Keep Pandemic Rolling?

By Julie Appleby April 23, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The covid outbreak in Michigan stands out on the U.S. contagion map, but odds are it will be repeated elsewhere. How vaccine hesitancy, relaxed restrictions and a coronavirus variant combined to create the worst outbreak in the country.

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Hospital Executive Charged In $1.4B Rural Hospital Billing Scheme

By Lauren Weber and Barbara Feder Ostrov June 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

In an investigation last year, KHN detailed the rise and fall of Miami businessman Jorge A. Perez’s rural hospital empire, which spanned eight states and encompassed half of the rural hospital bankruptcies in 2019.

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Consejos para inscribirse bien en Medicare durante la complicada inscripción abierta

By Bernard J. Wolfson November 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Medicare se reduce fundamentalmente a dos alternativas: la tarifa por servicio del Medicare Tradicional o el enfoque de atención administrada de Medicare Advantage.

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‘No Mercy’ Chapter 3: Patchwork of Urgent Care Frays After a Rural Hospital Closes

By Sarah Jane Tribble October 13, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Fort Scott, Kansas, went without an ER for 18 days, after the local hospital shut down. Documenting local trauma during that “dark period” helped investigative reporter Sarah Jane Tribble unravel some of the complications that come after a rural hospital closes.

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Sex Abuse Survivors Reject Boy Scouts’ $2.7B Payout Offer

January 5, 2022 Morning Briefing

Seventy-five percent of the nearly 54,000 claimants in the case needed to approve the payout, but just 73% did. Meanwhile, as the surprise medical billing law comes into effect, some lawmakers are already pushing for changes to the process, to “line up” with what they say was Congress’ intent.

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‘No Mercy’ Chapter 2: Unimaginable, After a Century, That Their Hospital Would Close

By Sarah Jane Tribble October 6, 2020 KFF Health News Original

After Mercy Hospital Fort Scott shut its doors, investigative reporter Sarah Jane Tribble traveled to Kansas and spent time with former hospital president Reta Baker and City Manager Dave Martin — to understand what their town lost.

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They Tested Negative for Covid. Still, They Have Long Covid Symptoms.

By Lydia Zuraw April 9, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Despite a negative covid test, people could have been infected with the coronavirus anyway. And some of them might face lingering health issues.

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