In Oregon, Medicaid Is Buying People Air Conditioners
By Samantha Young
May 2, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Oregon has started providing air conditioners, air purifiers and power banks to help some of its Medicaid recipients cope with soaring heat, smoky skies and other dangers of climate change. It’s a first-in-the-nation experiment that expands a Biden administration strategy to take Medicaid beyond traditional medical care and into the realm of social services. “Climate change is […]
This State Isn’t Waiting for Biden To Negotiate Drug Prices
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
March 26, 2024
KFF Health News Original
As the federal government negotiates with drugmakers to lower the price of 10 expensive drugs for Medicare patients, impatient legislators in some states are trying to go even further. Leading the pack is Colorado, where a new Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board is set to recommend an “upper payment limit” for drugs it deems unaffordable. In late […]
A Daily Pill to Treat Covid Could Be Just Months Away, Scientists Say
By JoNel Aleccia
September 24, 2021
KFF Health News Original
At least three promising antiviral treatments for covid-19 are being tested in clinical trials, with results expected as soon as late fall or winter.
Científicos dicen que una píldora diaria para tratar covid estaría a meses de distancia
By JoNel Aleccia
September 24, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Los medicamentos que se están investigando tendrían el potencial de interferir con la capacidad del virus para replicarse en las células humanas.
Despite Covid, Many Wealthy Hospitals Had a Banner Year With Federal Bailout
By Jordan Rau Christine Spolar
April 5, 2021
KFF Health News Original
As the crisis crushed smaller providers, some of the nation’s richest health systems thrived, reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in surpluses after accepting huge grants for pandemic relief. But poorer hospitals — many serving rural and minority populations — got a smaller slice of the pie and limped through the year with deficits and a bleak fiscal future.
As Schools Spend Millions on Air Purifiers, Experts Warn of Overblown Claims and Harm to Children
By Lauren Weber 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.
Lost on the Frontline
By The Staffs of KHN and The Guardian
August 10, 2020
KFF Health News Original
“Lost on the Frontline” is an ongoing project by Kaiser Health News and The Guardian that aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who died from COVID 19, and to investigate why so many are victims of the disease.
Taken For A Ride? Ambulances Stick Patients With Surprise Bills
By Melissa Bailey
Photos by Heidi de Marco
November 27, 2017
KFF Health News Original
Public outrage over surprise medical bills prompted 21 states to pass consumer protection laws. But these laws largely ignore ambulance rides, which can leave patients stuck with hundreds or even thousands of dollars in bills.
Monthly Premiums For A ‘Benchmark’ Silver Plan In Federally Run Insurance Marketplaces
September 29, 2013
KFF Health News Original
This chart lists sample premiums in the 36 states where the federal government is running the online insurance marketplaces.
The High Price Of Caring For A Loved One With Alzheimer’s
By Kristofor Husted, NPR News
March 1, 2012
KFF Health News Original
Nearly 15 million people fall into the role of unpaid caregiver for those sick with dementia. Add it all up, and it comes to about 17 billion hours of unpaid care valued at $202 billion in 2010 alone. New money from the Obama Administration in the 2013 budget is intended to help.
