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Five Quick Takeaways From a Yearlong Investigation of Medical Debt in America

By Kathleen Hayden June 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Today, debt from medical and dental bills touches nearly every corner of American society.

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Legal Pot Is More Potent Than Ever — And Still Largely Unregulated

By David Hilzenrath May 9, 2023 KFF Health News Original

As marijuana has become far more mainstream, potent, and sometimes dangerous, uneven regulation at the state and federal levels leaves consumers at risk.

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After Election Win, California’s AG Turns to Investigating Hospital Algorithms for Racial Bias

By Mark Kreidler November 21, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Attorney General Rob Bonta handily won election on a progressive, social justice platform. He’s already begun with an inquiry into hospital software programs that might bake in racial discrimination.

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Hospital Giant HCA Fends Off Accusations of Questionable Inpatient Admissions

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio November 4, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The nation’s largest private health system, HCA Healthcare, has faced years of scrutiny over its share of emergency room patients who are admitted to the hospital. And now U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, a Democrat from New Jersey, is calling for a federal investigation, prompting an escalating defense by the hospital system, based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Hospital Investigated for Allegedly Denying an Emergency Abortion After Patient’s Water Broke

By Harris Meyer November 1, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Federal officials have ordered the probe after reports that a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks could not get medical care recommended by her doctors to end the pregnancy because hospital officials were concerned about Missouri’s strict abortion law.

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Para pacientes de cáncer sin seguro, conseguir atención médica es una lotería

By Charlotte Huff April 10, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Los estudios demuestran que, a veces, los adultos sin seguro retrasan la atención, lo que puede perjudicar las probabilidades de supervivencia. Pero que los pacientes obtengan un seguro para cubrir el tratamiento se parece un poco al juego de la ruleta, es decir, depende de dónde vivan y del tipo de cáncer que padezcan.

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Stopping the Churn: Why Some States Want to Guarantee Medicaid Coverage From Birth to Age 6

By Phil Galewitz November 10, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Oregon has become the first state to allow kids to stay in the government health care program from birth to age 6, no matter if their household income changes. California, Washington, and New Mexico are pursuing similar policies.

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How Rural Communities Are Losing Their Pharmacies

By Markian Hawryluk November 15, 2021 KFF Health News Original

More than 1,000 independent rural pharmacies have closed since 2003, leaving 630 communities with no retail drugstore. As 41 million people stuck in pharmacy deserts make do, the remaining drugstores struggle to survive.

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When Malpractice Occurs at Community Health Centers, Taxpayers Pay

By Phil Galewitz and Bram Sable-Smith November 28, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Federally funded clinics and their doctors are protected against lawsuits by federal law, with taxpayers footing the bill. The health centers say that allows them to better serve their low-income patients, but lawyers say the system handcuffs consumers with a cumbersome legal process and makes it harder for the public to see problems.

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Decisiones financieras de los hospitales juegan un papel en la escasez de camas pediátricas para pacientes con VRS

By Liz Szabo December 9, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Los hospitales optimizan los ingresos tratando de mantener sus camas llenas al 100 %, y llenas de pacientes con condiciones que las aseguradoras reembolsan bien.

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While Inflation Takes a Toll on Seniors, Billions of Dollars in Benefits Go Unused

By Judith Graham September 12, 2022 KFF Health News Original

With prices of necessities rising dramatically, many older Americans are having trouble making ends meet. They often don’t know that help is available from a variety of programs, and some sources of financial assistance are underused.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Live From Aspen — Governors and an HHS Secretary Sound Off

June 26, 2025 Podcast

In this special episode taped before a live audience at Aspen Ideas: Health, three former governors — one of whom also served as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services — discuss how state and federal officials can work together to improve Americans’ health. Democrat Kathleen Sebelius, former Kansas governor and HHS secretary under President Barack Obama; Republican Chris Sununu, former New Hampshire governor; and Democrat Roy Cooper, former North Carolina governor, join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner.

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Marihuana legal es más potente que nunca pero no está bien regulada

By David Hilzenrath May 10, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Cientos de miles de personas llegan a salas de emergencias por crisis relacionadas con la marihuana, y millones sufren trastornos psicológicos vinculados al consumo de cannabis, según investigaciones federales.

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What Germany’s Coal Miners Can Teach America About Medical Debt

By Noam N. Levey December 14, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Coal mining ended in Germany’s Saarland a decade ago, but the transition away from coal has been smoother than in West Virginia, which has more medical debt than any state in America.

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Fighting Monkeypox, Sexual Health Clinics Are Underfunded and Ill-Equipped

By Liz Szabo and Lauren Weber July 19, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Sexual health clinics are scrambling to properly track, test, and treat hundreds of monkeypox patients. So far, it isn’t going well.

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Montana Hires a Medicaid Director With a Managed-Care Past

By Katheryn Houghton and Tony Leys June 1, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Montana, one of about a dozen states still managing its own Medicaid programs, has a new Medicaid director who championed handing the management of the program to private companies in Iowa and Kansas.

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Nurse Midwives Step Up to Provide Prenatal Care After Two Rural Hospitals Shutter Birthing Centers

By Tony Leys July 15, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Dozens of Iowa hospitals have closed their birthing units. A team of University of Iowa nurse midwives can’t reopen them, but they’ve found a way to provide prenatal checkups and other crucial services in two towns.

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Kids Want to Put Montana on Trial for Unhealthy Climate Policies

By Nick Ehli July 14, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Sixteen children and young adults are suing the state over energy policies they say are hurting their health and environment. The flooding that closed Yellowstone National Park may show they have a point.

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Vaccine and Testing Delays for Monkeypox Echo Failures in Early Covid Response

By Michelle Andrews July 8, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Public health officials say monkeypox is not as dangerous as covid and can be handled well with current treatments and if those at risk use caution. But the rollout of vaccines has been slow and led to angst among some at-risk people.

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Black-Owned Hospice Seeks to Bring Greater Ease in Dying to Black Families

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio January 10, 2022 KFF Health News Original

National data shows that Black Medicare patients and their families are not making the move to comfort care as often as white patients are. Experts speculate it’s related to spiritual beliefs and widespread mistrust in the medical system due to decades of discrimination.

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