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Facebook Live: A Status Check On Obamacare Enrollment

December 5, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In this chat, KHN’s Julie Appleby offers a progress report on the 2018 sign up season.

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Campus Voices: Should Student Health Centers Offer Abortion Pills?

By Ana B. Ibarra and Anna Gorman March 9, 2018 KFF Health News Original

California lawmakers are considering a bill that would require student health centers at all of the state’s four-year public universities to carry the abortion pill. Students at campuses across the state sounded off on the proposal.

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Lax Oversight Leaves Surgery Center Regulators And Patients In The Dark

By Christina Jewett and Mark Alesia, USA Today Network August 9, 2018 KFF Health News Original

A Kaiser Health News and USA Today Network investigation finds that a hodgepodge of state rules governing outpatient centers allow some deaths and serious injuries to go unexamined. And no rule stops a doctor exiled by a hospital for misconduct from opening a surgery center down the street.

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Facebook Live: It’s ACA Sign Up Season. Here’s What you Need To Know This Year.

November 2, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In this Facebook Live chat, KHN’s Julie Appleby answers questions about what’s changed for 2018 open enrollment.

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Facebook Live: Things To Know About Trump’s Directive On Health Insurance

October 12, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In this Facebook Live, KHN’s Julie Appleby answers questions about President Donald Trump’s executive order regarding insurance.

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Facebook Live: Trump Ends Payments For Cost-Sharing Reductions. What’s Next?

October 13, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In this Facebook Live chat, KHN’s Jay Hancock answers questions about President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will end federal payments for the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing reductions.

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Video: Health After A Hurricane

October 11, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In this Kaiser Health News video conversation, senior correspondent Julie Appleby and Georges Benjamin, the executive director of the American Public Health Association, hold a wide-ranging discussion about the continuing public and environmental health issues resulting from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, as well as other natural disasters such as the wildfires ravaging California.

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Insurer Tries A Soft Touch — Puppies! — For This Year’s Hard Sell Of Obamacare Plans

By Gisele Grayson, NPR November 6, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Open enrollment for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act exchanges started last week. Across the country, municipalities, insurers and grass-roots groups are working hard to help folks navigate the hoops.

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Facebook Live: What’s Happening With The Children’s Health Insurance Program?

September 22, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In this Facebook Live, KHN’s Julie Rovner talks to Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus, about the current state of play on CHIP reauthorization.

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KFF Health News Conversation On Advance Care Planning: What You Need To Know Now

November 8, 2017 Page

KFF Health News senior correspondent JoNel Aleccia moderates a discussion of the pressing issues surrounding end-of-life advance care planning.

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Facebook Live: The Prescription Drug Pricing Pipeline

August 29, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In this Facebook Live, KHN’s Julie Appleby talks with Stephanie Stapleton and answers readers’ questions about the prescription drug pricing pipeline and the industry stakeholders who have a role in what you pay.

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As Surgery Centers Boom, Patients Are Paying With Their Lives

By Christina Jewett and Mark Alesia, USA Today Network March 2, 2018 KFF Health News Original

An investigation by Kaiser Health News and the USA TODAY Network discovers that more than 260 patients have died since 2013 after in-and-out procedures at surgery centers across the country. More than a dozen — some as young as 2 — have perished after routine operations, such as colonoscopies and tonsillectomies.

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Trump Acting Solo: What You Need To Know About Changes To The Health Law

By Julie Rovner and Mary Agnes Carey and Julie Appleby October 13, 2017 KFF Health News Original

A quick guide to revisions to the cost-sharing subsidies for lower-income marketplace customers and the proposal to add different plans to the market.

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Trump’s Order Advances GOP Go-To Ideas To Broaden Insurance Choices, Curb Costs

By Julie Appleby October 12, 2017 KFF Health News Original

But the approaches are not new and critics worry that these changes will leave some consumers with skimpier plans that expose them to high medical bills.

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Liquid Gold: Pain Doctors Soak Up Profits By Screening Urine For Drugs

By Fred Schulte and Elizabeth Lucas Photos by Heidi de Marco November 6, 2017 KFF Health News Original

With the nation’s opioid crisis, urine testing has become a booming business and is especially lucrative for doctors who operate their own labs, a Kaiser Health News investigation finds. And dozens of practitioners have earned “the lion’s share” of their Medicare income exclusively from urine drug screens.

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Right After Trump Blamed High Drug Prices On Campaign Cash, Drugmakers Gave More

By Sydney Lupkin and Elizabeth Lucas September 27, 2017 KFF Health News Original

At a political rally in March, President Donald Trump said drug prices are “outrageous” and blamed campaign contributions. Drugmakers funneled nearly $280,000 to Congress the very next day.

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Everyone Says We Must Control Exorbitant Drug Prices. So, Why Don’t We?

By Jay Hancock September 25, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Any momentum to address prescription drug costs has been lost amid rancorous debates over replacing Obamacare and stalled by roadblocks erected via lobbying and industry cash.

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Why One Insurer’s Collapse Could Whack Insurers, Policyholders Across the Country

By Chad Terhune August 7, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Little-known rules require all health insurance companies to help pay claims when any one of them fails. Penn Treaty failed big — and insurers around the country are likely to pass those costs onto policyholders.

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Desperate Quest For Herpes Cure Launched ‘Rogue’ Trial

By Marisa Taylor October 19, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Patients flocked to researcher who ignored usual patient protections, as university claimed ignorance.

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A medida que crecen los centros de cirugía, los pacientes están pagando con sus vidas

By Christina Jewett and Mark Alesia, USA Today Network March 2, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Hay más de 5,600 centros de cirugía en todo el país, en donde se realizan procedimientos quirúrgicos menores. Pero una investigación reveló que a veces ocurren complicaciones que hubieran sido prevenibles en un hospital.

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