Looming Cuts to Emergency SNAP Benefits Threaten Food Security in Rural America
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez
February 23, 2023
KFF Health News Original
In a few weeks, pandemic-era emergency boosts to SNAP benefits, formerly known as food stamps, will be rolled back across 32 states, putting more pressure on food pantries to fill the gaps and exacerbating challenges for rural areas, where a greater share of people are enrolled in the program compared with metro areas.
Did a Military Lab Spill Anthrax Into Public Waterways? New Book Reveals Details of a US Leak
By Alison Young
April 25, 2023
KFF Health News Original
“Pandora’s Gamble” describes how 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of wastewater potentially containing anthrax, Ebola, and other deadly pathogens spilled from an Army facility in Frederick, Maryland, in 2018.
Estrategias comerciales de las grandes farmacéuticas dejan a estadounidenses sin poder comprar sus medicamentos
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
August 18, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Sin barreras, los precios de algunos medicamentos existentes se han disparado, incluso cuando han caído drásticamente en otros países. Los nuevos medicamentos tienen precios enormes, respaldados por el lobby y el marketing.
California amplió el Medi-Cal a todos los residentes más allá de su estatus migratorio. Los resultados son desiguales.
By Vanessa G. Sánchez
November 12, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Estos inmigrantes se han ido sumando al programa poco a poco, a medida que el estado fue eliminando el requisito de residencia legal.
Ambulance Company to Halt Some Rides in Southern California, Citing Low Medicaid Rates
By Sarah Kwon
October 28, 2022
KFF Health News Original
American Medical Response, the largest U.S. ambulance company, is ending nonemergency transportation for 12 hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties, saying the state doesn’t pay enough to transport low-income patients. The state is pushing back.
Científicos buscan la causa de una misteriosa inflamación en niños relacionada con covid
By Liz Szabo
October 20, 2021
KFF Health News Original
Más de 5,200 de los 6,2 millones de niños estadounidenses a los que se les ha diagnosticado covid han desarrollado MIS-C. Un 80% de los pacientes con MIS-C son tratados en unidades de cuidados intensivos, el 20% requiere ventilación mecánica y 46 han muerto.
HIV Outbreak Persists as Officials Push Back Against Containment Efforts
By Taylor Sisk
December 19, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Research shows offering clean syringes to people who misuse IV drugs is effective in combating the spread of HIV. But an epidemiologist and advocates say state and local officials in West Virginia, home to one of the worst HIV outbreaks in recent years, have taken measures that render syringe exchange less accessible.
¿Ahorrar miles de millones o quedarse con Humira? Intermediarios farmacéuticos guían hacia la opción más costosa
By Arthur Allen
September 19, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Humira lleva 20 años disfrutando de una exclusividad muy cara en el país. Sus competidores podrían ahorrarle al sistema sanitario $9,000 millones.
Patient Mistrust and Poor Access Hamper Federal Efforts to Overhaul Family Planning
By Renuka Rayasam
November 21, 2022
KFF Health News Original
For decades, many women of color, particularly those with low incomes, had little control over their family planning care. Now, a White House effort aims to give patients more choices as abortion care evaporates, but patients remain wary of providers.
Fin de beneficios extra de SNAP por la pandemia amenazan la seguridad alimentaria en zonas rurales
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez
February 23, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Un mayor porcentaje de personas depende de SNAP en áreas rurales en comparación con las áreas metropolitanas. Y esas zonas ya tienen tasas más altas de inseguridad alimentaria y de pobreza.
Is My Drug Copay Coupon a Form of Charity — Or a Bribe?
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
April 21, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Drug copayment assistance is a form of profitable charity — and, yes, that’s an oxymoron. Amid skyrocketing drug prices, it’s understandable that patients desperately need help affording medicine, especially when their health is on the line. But these programs create a mirage that perpetuates our health care system’s reckless spending.
Sports Programs in States in Northern Climes Face a New Opponent: Scorching Septembers
By Aaron Bolton, MTPR
September 30, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Montana and many other states in the northern U.S. have not updated their policies to keep young athletes safe from heatstroke amid rising temperatures.
Death and Redemption in an American Prison
By Markian Hawryluk
February 21, 2024
KFF Health News Original
More than a quarter century after an inmate helped start a hospice program in one of the nation’s most notorious prisons, he is trying to spread the idea.
An Arm and a Leg: The Medicare Episode
By Dan Weissmann
March 11, 2024
Podcast
On this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” host Dan Weissmann breaks down the complicated and expensive world of Medicare with practical tips to pick the right plan and avoid penalties.
Why Cheap, Older Drugs That Might Treat Covid Never Get Out of the Lab
By Arthur Allen
April 19, 2022
KFF Health News Original
The hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin fiascoes have soured many doctors on repurposing drugs for covid. A few inexpensive old drugs may be as good as some of the new antivirals, but they face complex obstacles to get to patients.
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.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump 2.0
November 8, 2024
Podcast
As Donald Trump readies for his return to the White House — with the backing of a GOP majority in the Senate and, possibly, the House — the entire health care industry is waiting to see what happens next. Clearly on the agenda: the future of abortion and reproductive rights, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and public health’s infrastructure. Rachel Cohrs Zhang of Stat and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Jackie Fortiér, who reported and wrote the latest KFF Health News-Washington Post “Bill of the Month” feature, about a 2-year-old who had a very expensive run-in with a rattlesnake.
Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection
By Brett Kelman
July 6, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Isolation gowns are supposed to protect health care workers from splattered bodily fluids. But new studies suggest that too much liquid seeps through some disposable gowns, creating a risk of infection.
Schools, Sheriffs, and Syringes: State Plans Vary for Spending $26B in Opioid Settlement Funds
By Aneri Pattani
November 22, 2022
KFF Health News Original
The cash represents an unprecedented opportunity to derail the opioid epidemic, but with countless groups advocating for their share of the pie, the impact could depend heavily on geography and politics.
Emergency Contraception Marks a New Battle Line in Texas
By Sarah Varney
April 28, 2022
KFF Health News Original
In the shadow of Texas’ austere abortion regulations, grassroots organizers employ stealth tactics to help young women get emergency contraception.
