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Morning Briefing: Friday, January 26, 2024
Assisted living facilities, drug shortages and costs, health industry money woes, Medicare, measles, long covid, and more are in the news.
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Morning Briefing: Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Listen to our new 'Silence in Sikeston' podcast. Plus, ACA enrollment, elections, covid discovery, mammogram rules, EEE, and more.
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Employers Are Concerned About Covering Workers’ Mental Health Needs, Survey Finds
Nearly half of large employers report that increasing numbers of their workers were using mental health services, according to a KFF annual employer survey. Yet almost a third of those employers said their health plan’s network didn’t have enough behavioral health care providers for employees to have timely access to the care they need.
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Morning Briefing: Friday, May 31, 2024
Third bird flu case, food safety, abortion laws, covid, cancer treatments, and more are in the news. Plus, your weekend reads.
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Morning Briefing: Thursday, July 18, 2024
Insulin costs, long covid, abortion access, Medicaid, marijuana, hospital infections, psilocybin, drug shortages, and more are in the news.
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‘True Cost of Aging’ Index Shows Many Seniors Can’t Afford Basic Necessities
The Elder Index, developed by researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, shows that nearly 5 million older women living alone, 2 million older men living alone, and more than 2 million older couples have incomes that make them economically insecure.
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The Case of the Two Grace Elliotts: A Medical Billing Mystery
A health system charged a woman for a shoulder replacement at a hospital across the country that she had not visited for years. She didn’t receive the care, but she did receive the bill — and the medical records of a stranger.
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Morning Briefing: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
The loneliness epidemic, LGBTQ+ mental health crisis, emergency abortion access, long covid, asthma's cancer link, and more are in the news.
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Morning Briefing: Monday, May 1, 2023
Medicaid work requirements, abortion access, covid tracking, variants, ChatGPT, gene therapy, youth mental health, and more are in the news.
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Morning Briefing: Thursday, March 7, 2024
Rural hospital finances, IVF, drug costs, nursing home profits, gun violence, ketamine, long covid, and more are in the news.
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Morning Briefing: Monday, July 22, 2024
Harris' health priorities, Biden's record, the ACA, gun violence, abortion access, cyber safety, PBMs, bird flu, and more are in the news.
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Watch: Thinking Big in Public Health, Inspired by the End of Smallpox
A conversation about how the lessons from the victory over smallpox could be applied to public health challenges today.
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Morning Briefing: Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Nursing home staffing, Medicaid "unwinding," medical record privacy, Medicare Advantage, homelessness, measles, and more are in the news.
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5 Things to Know About Montana’s ‘Born Alive’ Ballot Initiative
A ballot measure that seeks to protect infants following failed abortions would impose stiff penalties on health care providers in Montana.
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Pfizer’s Covid Cash Powers a ‘Marketing Machine’ on the Hunt for New Supernovas
While sales of its covid vaccines are falling, Pfizer plans to triple the price of the shots and use its bonanza from government contracts to buy and develop new blockbusters.
By Arthur Allen Year-End Bill Holds Big Health Changes
Episode 278The year-end spending bill passed by Congress in late December contains a wide array of health-related provisions, including a structure for states to begin to disenroll people on Medicaid whose coverage has been maintained through the pandemic. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is taking steps to make the abortion pill more widely available. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post join KHN’s chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Mark Kreidler, who reported and wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature about a billing mix-up that took about a year to sort out.