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Highly Contagious California Variant Might Evade Vaccines, Experts Warn

February 24, 2021 Morning Briefing

Scientists raise concerns that if B.1.427/B.1.429 combines with the variant identified in the United Kingdom, that mutation could be an even more dangerous strain.

Medical Debt Soars To $140B; States Without Medicaid Expansion Hit Hard

July 23, 2021 Morning Briefing

The debt estimate, from a study in JAMA, was up from $81 billion in 2016. Other reports look at the cost of prescription medicine and contraception.

A Battle-Weary Seattle Hospital Fights the Latest COVID Surge

By Will Stone December 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Harborview Medical Center was at the epicenter of the first wave of coronavirus in the U.S. Staffers have a better understanding of the disease as cases surge, but fatigue and a lack of backup staff are big challenges.

Sanofi Expands mRNA Vaccine Efforts By Buying Translate Bio For $3.2B

August 3, 2021 Morning Briefing

Translate Bio was already Sanofi’s partner in an effort to try to build an mRNA covid vaccine. Separately, reports say the Federal Trade Commission has reluctantly withdrawn a remaining claim in a lawsuit over a so-called pay-to-delay deal with Abbvie.

Perspectives: 340B Issue An Unneeded Distraction For Safety-Net Hospitals

June 22, 2021 Morning Briefing

Read recent commentaries about drug-cost issues.

With Vaccine Delivery Imminent, Nursing Homes Must Make a Strong Pitch to Residents

By Judith Graham December 17, 2020 KFF Health News Original

More than half of long-term care residents have cognitive impairment or dementia, raising questions about whether they will understand the details about the fastest and most extensive vaccination effort in U.S. history.

‘An Arm And A Leg’: The $7,000 COVID Test And Other Lessons From SEASON-19

By Dan Weissmann June 1, 2020 KFF Health News Original

“An Arm and a Leg” wraps an all-COVID podcast season with three different perspectives on what the pandemic is costing us — and what might come next.

As Schools Spend Millions on Air Purifiers, Experts Warn of Overblown Claims and Harm to Children

By Lauren Weber and Christina Jewett May 3, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A KHN investigation found that more than 2,000 schools have spent millions of dollars for systems, lured by air purifier companies’ claims that experts say mislead or obscure the potential for harm from toxic ozone.

Watch: Teaching Teens How To Navigate Racism In America

June 26, 2020 KFF Health News Original

KHN Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony appeared on KSDK’s “Today in St. Louis” with host Rene Knott to discuss the unwritten rules that Black teens learn to try to safely navigate other people’s racist assumptions.

Farmworkers, Firefighters and Flight Attendants Jockey for Vaccine Priority

By Rachel Bluth and Phil Galewitz December 11, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Everyone — from toilet paper manufacturers to patient advocates — is lobbying state advisory boards, arguing their members are essential, vulnerable or both — and, thus, most deserving of an early vaccine.

Is A Second Wave Of Coronavirus Coming?

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact June 23, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Some experts say the United States is arguably still in the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic and history tells us that the 1918 influenza pandemic came in at least three waves. But that’s not necessarily a template for how the coronavirus pandemic will play out, because the coronavirus doesn’t have the same degree of seasonality that influenza does.

‘An Arm and a Leg’: Financial Self-Defense School Is Now in Session

By Dan Weissmann August 10, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Starting in August 2020, a new episode every other week. No time like a pandemic to learn more about how to fight the high cost of health care.

House Passes $715B Bill Laying Out Opening Position On Infrastructure Talks

July 2, 2021 Morning Briefing

The public works legislation, passed in a mostly party-line vote, focuses on transportation and water safety initiatives.

Heartbreaking Bills, Lawsuit and Bankruptcy — Even With Insurance

By Laura Ungar September 25, 2020 KFF Health News Original

With health insurance that can leave him on the hook for more than a quarter of his salary every year, a Kentucky essential worker who has heart disease is one of millions of Americans who are functionally uninsured. At only 31, he has already been through bankruptcy and being sued by his hospital. This year, he faced a bill for more than $10,000.

House Panel Advances $120B HHS Budget Bill; Senate Spending Deals On Uncertain Ground

July 16, 2021 Morning Briefing

Annual funding for the Department of Health and Human Services would get a 24% boost in the package approved by the House Appropriations Committee Thursday. On the Senate side, congressional reporters track the status of intertwined infrastructure and “human infrastructure” spending measures.

As Covid Surges In South, Florida Detects Variant First Identified In Colombia

July 29, 2021 Morning Briefing

Florida’s community transmission is ranked “high” by the CDC, possibly playing a role in the local detection of cases of a new covid variant (B.1.621) first detected in Colombia. Meanwhile, Texas’ case rate tops 10,000 daily for the first time in nearly six months, and southern hospitals are strained.

Missourians to Vote on Medicaid Expansion as Crisis Leaves Millions Without Insurance

By Cara Anthony July 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Around the country, Medicaid enrollment is up as people who have lost jobs during the pandemic seek health insurance. Expanding eligibility for Missouri’s program, which could help thousands of recently unemployed residents, will be on the ballot Tuesday.

Biden Scrapping Trump Plan To Shift 340B Discounts on Insulin, Epi-Pens

June 16, 2021 Morning Briefing

The policy would have threatened to withhold grant funds from community health centers if they charged low-income patients more than what they paid for the life-saving injections. Other news is on the increasing price of Medicare drugs, incentives at skilled nursing facilities, Florida’s Medicaid budget and a program in Connecticut that will give “baby bonds” to new parents on Medicaid.

Essential Worker Shoulders $1,840 Pandemic Debt Due To COVID Cost Loophole

By Sarah Varney June 30, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Carmen Quintero had symptoms of COVID-19, couldn’t get tested and ended up with a huge bill. She also was told to self-isolate and assume she had the coronavirus — which is hard when you live with elders.

Less-Lethal Weapons Blind, Maim and Kill. Victims Say Enough Is Enough.

By Donovan Slack, USA TODAY and Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY and Jay Hancock, KHN and Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY July 24, 2020 KFF Health News Original

Time and again over the past two decades, peace officers have targeted demonstrators with munitions designed only to stun and stop. Protests this year in reaction to George Floyd’s death in police custody have reignited a controversy surrounding their use.

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