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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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Washington State Retools First-in-the-Nation Long-Term Care Benefit

By Michelle Andrews April 18, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The WA Cares Fund program, which would provide workers in the state a lifetime benefit of $36,500, was set to begin collecting money through a payroll tax in January, but it was delayed while lawmakers made adjustments to address equity problems. Now the payroll deductions will begin in July 2023, and benefits will become available in 2026.

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Primera oficial para el clima de LA dice que ayudar a comunidades vulnerables es clave para alcanzar metas climáticas

By Heidi de Marco July 1, 2022 KFF Health News Original

El calor extremo puede causar calambres, agotamiento por calor e insolación. El calor extremo contribuyó a la muerte de unas 12,000 personas en Estados Unidos cada año entre 2010 y 2020, según un estudio de la Universidad de Washington. Es probable que esas cifras aumenten.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Democrats See Opportunity in GOP Threats to Repeal Health Law

December 7, 2023 Podcast

Sensing that Republicans are walking into a political minefield by threatening once again to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Biden administration is looking to capitalize by rolling out a series of initiatives aimed at high drug prices and other consequences of “corporate greed in health care.” Meanwhile, the Supreme Court hears a case that could determine when and how much victims of the opioid crisis can collect from Purdue Pharma, the drug company that lied about how addictive its drug, OxyContin, really was. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, and Rachana Pradhan of KFF Health News join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Dan Weissmann of KFF Health News’ sister podcast, “An Arm and a Leg,” about his investigation into hospitals suing their patients over unpaid bills.

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Gunman In 2017 Las Vegas Attack Was Resentful Of How Casino Treated Him

March 31, 2023 Morning Briefing

Recently released FBI documents say Stephen Paddock, 64, killed 58 people from a window of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino because he was “very upset” that high-rolling gamblers were not getting enough perks. Still, behavioral experts have found “no single or clear motivating factor” for his actions, USA Today reported.

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Dangerous Levels of Lead Were Found in the Water of About Half the Schools Tested in Montana

By Katheryn Houghton March 2, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Officials testing water found high lead levels in more than 100 of the state’s nearly 600 school buildings. But as of mid-February, half the state’s schools had yet to provide samples.

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One California University Has Unified Town and Gown to Fight Covid. Why Haven’t Others?

By Mark Kreidler March 9, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The University of California-Davis has spent close to $50 million preventing the spread of covid on campus — and among residents and workers in the adjacent city of Davis. By most accounts, this town-gown experiment has paid off nicely.

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As US Nears 1 Million Covid Deaths, One Hard-Hit County Grapples With Unthinkable Loss

By Phil Galewitz April 1, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The United States is nearing 1 million deaths from covid — an almost incomprehensible number of lives lost that few thought possible when the pandemic began. Pennsylvania’s Mifflin County offers a snapshot into how one hard-hit community, with over 300 dead, is coping.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: On Abortion Rights, Ohio Is the New Kansas

August 10, 2023 Podcast

Nearly a year to the day after Kansas voters surprised the nation by defeating an anti-abortion ballot question, Ohio voters defeated a similar, if cagier, effort to limit access in that state. This week, they rejected an effort to raise the threshold for approval of future ballot measures from a simple majority, which would have made it harder to protect abortion access with yet another ballot question come November. Meanwhile, the number of Americans without health insurance has dropped to an all-time low, though few noticed. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post, and Emmarie Huetteman of KFF Health News join KFF Health News’ chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner, to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Kate McEvoy, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, about how the “Medicaid unwinding” is going, as millions have their eligibility for coverage rechecked.

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Más de 100 millones de estadounidenses viven acosados por las deudas médicas

By Noam N. Levey June 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

La investigación revela un problema mucho más extendido de lo que se había informado anteriormente. Esto se debe a que gran parte de la deuda que acumulan los pacientes figura como saldos de tarjetas de crédito, préstamos familiares o planes de pago a hospitales y otros proveedores médicos.

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A Tattoo Parlor Is Linked To Spreading Mpox To 21 People

December 16, 2022 Morning Briefing

CIDRAP reports that piercing or tattooing appears to be linked to mpox infections in 21 people in Spain in July, from 58 total people who were customers of the same tattoo parlor over the same period. Combatting gun violence, and disability rights are also in the news.

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Trend In Covid Deaths Shifts To Vaccinated As Numbers Grow, Immunity Wanes

November 28, 2022 Morning Briefing

A KFF data analysis done for The Washington Post finds that 58% of the people who died from covid in August had been vaccinated or boosted. That number was only 23% the prior year, but the trend shifted as more Americans got the shot and immunity wanes.

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Colorado Hospitals in ‘Critical Condition’ as State Weathers Another Surge

By John Daley, Colorado Public Radio December 15, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Patients with other ailments are frustrated, and nurses and doctors are stressed and burned out, as unvaccinated covid-19 patients fill ICU and acute care beds.

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Race Is Often Used as Medical Shorthand for How Bodies Work. Some Doctors Want to Change That.

By Rae Ellen Bichell and Cara Anthony June 13, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Physicians have long believed it’s good medicine to consider race in health care. But recently, rather than perpetuate the myth that race governs how bodies function, a more nuanced approach has emerged: acknowledging that racial health disparities often reflect the effects of generations of systemic racism, such as lack of access to stable housing or nutritious food.

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Omicron Subvariant BA.2.12.1 Responsible For 58% Of New US Cases

May 25, 2022 Morning Briefing

And the pace of infections continues to accelerate, with the nation surpassing 100,000 confirmed daily covid cases for the first time since February. The trends are prompting some facilities and regions to encourage masks again.

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As Workers Struggle With Pandemic’s Impact, Employers Expand Mental Health Benefits

By Michelle Andrews November 10, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Many job-based health plans broadened their mental health and substance use coverage to make sure workers had the support they needed this year as pandemic stress lingered, the annual KFF survey finds. Also, the proportion of employers offering health insurance to their workers remained steady, and increases for premiums and out-of-pocket health expenses were moderate.

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CDC: 58% Of Americans Have Had Covid, With Omicron Driving Up Infections

April 27, 2022 Morning Briefing

The CDC analysis of blood samples found that proportion to be even higher among kids, with 3 in 4 showing signs of previous covid infection. The study did not measure whether people had high enough antibody levels to guard against reinfection, so CDC officials continue to stress the importance of vaccinations.

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Layers of Subcontracted Services Confuse and Frustrate Medi-Cal Patients

By Bernard J. Wolfson December 22, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Many of the 14 million patients in Medi-Cal are in managed care health plans that outsource their care to subcontractors or sub-subcontractors. For patients with difficult health care needs, it can be hard to know where to turn.

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The Vaccine Rollout Was a Success. But Events Within and Beyond Biden’s Control Stymied Progress.

By Victoria Knight December 20, 2021 KFF Health News Original

There were variants, vaccine hesitancy and messaging mix-ups. And, despite campaign promises, Biden and his administration sometimes took actions or made statements without waiting for full scientific evidence to back them up.

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