Morning Briefing: Monday, June 10, 2024
Nursing home safety, heat rules, insulin costs, abortion laws, uninsured rates, Alzheimer's, weight-loss drugs, and more are in the news.
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Why It’s So Tough to Reduce Unnecessary Medical Care
Treatments that don’t help patients, and may even harm them, are difficult to eliminate because they can be big sources of revenue.
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Readers Call on Congress to Bolster Medicare and Fix Loopholes in Health Policy
KFF Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
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Massive Kaiser Permanente Strike Looms as Talks Head to the Wire
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.
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Out for Blood? For Routine Lab Work, the Hospital Billed Her $2,400
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.
A Health Policy Veteran Puts 2025 in Perspective
Season 13, Episode 7Two 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.
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Morning Briefing: Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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 […]
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Morning Briefing: Tuesday, March 17, 2026
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 […]
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He Thinks His Wife Died in an Understaffed Hospital. Now He’s Trying to Change the Industry.
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.
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Morning Briefing: Tuesday, March 3, 2026
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 […]
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Morning Briefing: Monday, March 2, 2026
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 […]
By khnlaureno A Wild Health Insurance Hustle
Season 13, Episode 12A couple in New York thought they bought insurance. Instead, they got fake “jobs.”
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Most States Ban Shackling Pregnant Women in Custody, Yet Many Report Being Restrained
Advocates for pregnant people in police custody say repeated incidents show prohibitions on handcuffs and other restraints are little more than lip service.
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Florida Leaders Misrepresented Research Before Ban on Gender-Affirming Care
The Florida policy backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis relies on one key statistic that many experts question.
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Perspective
The Shrinking Number of Primary Care Physicians Is Reaching a Tipping Point
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.
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Is Housing Health Care? State Medicaid Programs Increasingly Say ‘Yes’
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.
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Morning Briefing: Friday, July 11, 2025
Medicaid and Medicare fallout, FDA drug approvals, prediabetes in kids, sick leave, dementia, measles, opioid settlement funds, and more.
The Medicare Episode
Season 11, Episode 3On 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.