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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A Big Week for Biden

August 11, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Congress is leaving for its annual summer break having accomplished far more than many expected, including, barring unforeseen snags, a bill to address the cost of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries and extend the enhanced subsidies for insurance premiums under the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, the abortion issue continues to roil the nation as Indiana becomes the first state to ban the procedure in almost all cases since the Supreme Court overruled the constitutional right to abortion in June. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Rachel Cohrs of Stat join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more.

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Thousands Got Exactech Knee or Hip Replacements. Then, Patients Say, the Parts Began to Fail.

By Fred Schulte October 10, 2023 KFF Health News Original

In a torrent of lawsuits, patients accuse Florida device maker Exactech of hiding knee and hip implant defects for years. The company denies the allegations.

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The Official Who Investigates Suspicious Deaths in Your Town May Be a Doctor — Or Not

By Samantha Young December 20, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Across the country, there are no consistent requirements for the officials who investigate suspicious and unexpected deaths. Some have no medical training, others are doctors trained in forensic pathology. Washington, California, Illinois, and Georgia are among the states that have recently attempted to make changes — with mixed success.

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Rural Colorado Tries to Fill Health Worker Gaps With Apprenticeships

By Kate Ruder November 29, 2022 KFF Health News Original

A Grand Junction program is training and retaining nurse and personal care aides in areas where the aging population is creating a need for them. But challenges remain for these workers.

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How Optimism Can Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap

By Phil Galewitz and Daniel Chang November 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Low-income residents in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid are in a tough spot: They don’t qualify for the subsidies that people with slightly higher incomes get to buy marketplace plans because of a glitch in the federal health law. But a court decision last year makes it easier for them to make good-faith estimates of a pay increase, and there is no financial penalty if they don’t hit that figure.

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Medical Debt Sunk Her Credit. New Changes From the Credit Reporting Agencies Won’t Help.

By Aneri Pattani October 6, 2022 KFF Health News Original

New policies to prevent unpaid medical bills from harming people’s credit scores are on the way. But the concessions made by top credit reporting companies may fall short for those with the largest debt — especially Black Americans in the South.

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Texas, Battling Teen Pregnancy, Recasts Sex Education Standards

By Emmarie Huetteman September 20, 2022 KFF Health News Original

As Texas adjusts to a near-total abortion ban, Texas schools are redoubling efforts to end teen pregnancies by enacting new standards for sexual health education. Beyond focusing on abstinence, they are teaching middle schoolers about contraceptives and preventing sexually transmitted infections. But parents must opt in for their children to get the lessons.

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People With Health Insurance Now Own The Most ‘Bad Debt’ To Hospitals

January 17, 2024 Morning Briefing

It’s a major shift: The Guardian wrote that in 2018, just 11% of hospitals’ bad debt came from insured “self-pay” accounts. By 2022, the proportion who didn’t pay their bills jumped to 58% of all hospitals’ bad debt. Other news is on health insurance premiums, drug pricing, and more.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Can Congress Reconcile Trump’s Wishes With Medicaid’s Needs?

April 24, 2025 Podcast

When Congress returns next week, it will be writing a budget reconciliation bill that’s expected to cut taxes but also make deep cuts to Medicaid. But at least some Republicans are concerned about cutting a program that aids so many of their constituents. Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, Tami Luhby of CNN, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss this story and more. Also, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Rae Ellen Bichell about her story on how care for transgender minors is changing in Colorado.

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Trabajadores comunitarios persuaden a inmigrantes mayores de tener cobertura de salud

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, California Health Report February 28, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Hasta octubre, el mes más reciente para el que hay disponibles datos, más de 300,000 adultos mayores inmigrantes que no tienen residencia legal se habían inscrito en el Medi-Cal completo, un 30% más que la proyección original del estado.

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Redes sociales alimentan obsesión por las drogas para bajar de peso, sin hablar de riesgos

By Darius Tahir and Hannah Norman April 18, 2023 KFF Health News Original

La competencia para hacerse con un mercado que podría valer $100.000 millones al año, solo para los fabricantes de medicamentos, ha desencadenado una ola de publicidad que preocupa a las autoridades sanitarias y médicos de todo el mundo.

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1,000 People A Day Signed Up In North Carolina’s Medicaid Expansion

February 15, 2024 Morning Briefing

When North Carolina launched its Medicaid expansion on Dec. 1, it was estimated some 600,000 people would get coverage over two years. In the first two months, 58% of that goal has been reached. Also in the news: nearly all states have extended postpartum coverage; and California’s new Medi-Cal eligibility rules.

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Policies to Roll Back Abortion Rights Will Hit Incarcerated People Particularly Hard

By Carly Graf August 22, 2022 KFF Health News Original

People in jails and prisons are particularly vulnerable to the fallout from the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

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An Arm and a Leg: When Hospitals Sue Patients (Part 1)

By Dan Weissmann December 14, 2023 Podcast

Some hospitals sue patients over unpaid medical bills. But is this even an effective way for hospitals to recoup lost revenue? On this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” host Dan Weissmann speaks with medical-debt experts to explore a different solution.

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The $18,000 Breast Biopsy: When Having Insurance Costs You a Bundle

By Lauren Sausser August 23, 2022 KFF Health News Original

An online calculator told a young woman that a procedure to rule out cancer would cost an uninsured person about $1,400. Instead, the hospital initially charged almost $18,000 and, with her high-deductible health insurance, she owed more than $5,000.

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Cómo el optimismo puede cerrar la brecha de cobertura de Medicaid

By Phil Galewitz and Daniel Chang November 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Más de 2 millones de personas de bajos ingresos, la mitad de ellos en Florida y Texas, no tienen seguro porque están atrapados en una brecha de cobertura. Y sus estados no han expandido Medicaid.

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Death Is Anything but a Dying Business as Private Equity Cashes In

By Markian Hawryluk September 22, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Investors are banking on increased demand in death care services as 73 million baby boomers near the end of their lives.

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California’s Medicaid Experiment Spends Money to Save Money — And Help the Homeless

By Angela Hart April 19, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious experiment in health care is supposed to cut costs as it fills the needs of hard-to-reach people. The program’s start is chaotic and limited, but it shows promise.

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‘The Country Is Watching’: California Homeless Crisis Looms as Gov. Newsom Eyes Political Future

By Angela Hart February 9, 2023 KFF Health News Original

As Gov. Gavin Newsom enters his second term, his legacy as governor and path forward in the Democratic Party hinge on his making visible headway on California’s homeless crisis. We lay out the possibilities — and challenges — as he unleashes an $18 billion battle plan.

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States Have Yet to Spend Hundreds of Millions of Federal Dollars to Tackle Covid Health Disparities

By Phil Galewitz and Lauren Weber and Sam Whitehead May 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

A year ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded states and local health departments $2.25 billion to help people of color and other populations at higher risk from covid. But a KHN review shows public health agencies across the country have been slow to spend it.

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