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Nursing home safety, heat rules, insulin costs, abortion laws, uninsured rates, Alzheimer's, weight-loss drugs, and more are in the news.
Treatments that don’t help patients, and may even harm them, are difficult to eliminate because they can be big sources of revenue.
KFF Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
Both sides, still at loggerheads over pay and staffing, agreed to keep bargaining after unions announced a possible strike Oct. 4-7. If no deal is reached, a walkout by about 75,000 KP workers in five states could disrupt care.
Convenient as it may be, beware of getting your blood drawn at a hospital. The cost could be much higher than at an independent lab, and your insurance might not cover it all.
Two stories from Washington, D.C., give listeners a sense of what changes the Trump administration has been making to health policy, with KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner and Arthur Allen.
KFF Health News Original Stories 3 Demoralized CDC Workforce Reels From Year of Firings, Funding Cuts, and a Shooting Steep Health Care Costs Steer Americans to Tough Decisions Listen to the Latest 'KFF Health News Minute' State Watch 1 Children's Mental Health Suffered On Meta's Platforms, N.M. Jury Determines Administration News 1 ACIP Vice Chair […]
KFF Health News Original Stories 3 Lost in Transmission: Changes in Organ Donor Status Can Fall Through Cracks in the System Psychiatrists’ Use of Biomarkers Could Open a New Window Into Mental Health Diagnoses Birth Control Skepticism, Teen Fertility Take Center Stage at Trump's Women's Health Summit Political Cartoon: 'Unplugged?' Note To Readers Administration News […]
Nurses are telling lawmakers that there are not enough of them working in hospitals and that it risks patients’ lives. California and Oregon legally limit the number of patients under a nurse’s care. Other states trying to do the same were blocked by the hospital industry. Now patients’ relatives are joining the fight.
KFF Health News Original Stories 3 Federal Aid for Lead Cleanup Is Receding. That’s a Problem for Cash-Strapped Cities. Even Patients Are Shocked by the Prices Their Insurers Will Pay — And It Costs All of Us Readers Lean On Congress To Solve Crises in Research and Rehab Political Cartoon: 'A Lot of Nerve!' Administration […]
KFF Health News Original Stories 3 Families Defend Disability Services Amid Medicaid Cuts Medicaid Is Paying for More Dental Care. GOP Cuts Threaten To Reverse the Trend. ICE, ALS, Addiction Medicine, and Robotic Ultrasounds: Journalists Sound Off on All That and More Medicaid 1 Ahead Of Medicaid Work Rules, States To Spend Millions Upgrading Systems […]
A couple in New York thought they bought insurance. Instead, they got fake “jobs.”
Advocates for pregnant people in police custody say repeated incidents show prohibitions on handcuffs and other restraints are little more than lip service.
The Florida policy backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis relies on one key statistic that many experts question.
The declining share of U.S. doctors in adult primary care is about 25% — a point beyond which many Americans won’t be able to find a family doctor at all.
States are using their Medicaid programs to offer poor and sick people housing services, such as paying six months’ rent or helping hunt for apartments. The trend comes in response to a growing homelessness epidemic, but experts caution this may not be the best use of limited health care money.
Medicaid and Medicare fallout, FDA drug approvals, prediabetes in kids, sick leave, dementia, measles, opioid settlement funds, and more.
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.
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