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Congress Considers Easing Regulations on Air Transport of Donated Organs

By Colleen DeGuzman July 20, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A little-noticed provision of sweeping legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration would make it easier to fly human organs from donor to recipient.

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Harris Correct That Trump Fell Short on Promise To Negotiate Medicare Drug Prices

By Jacob Gardenswartz October 3, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The former president instead favored a temporary model that could’ve brought down prices of some prescription drugs, but it was blocked by the courts.

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Facing Financial Ruin as Costs Soar for Elder Care

By Reed Abelson, The New York Times and Jordan Rau November 14, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The United States has no coherent system of long-term care, leading many to struggle to stay independent or rely on a patchwork of solutions.

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Jaw Surgery Takes a $27,119 Bite out of One Man’s Budget

By Phil Galewitz August 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A Seattle patient discovers the hard way that you can still hit a lifetime limit for certain types of care. And health plans can vary a lot from one job to the next, even if the insurer is the same.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Abortion — Again — At the Supreme Court

April 24, 2024 Podcast

For the second time in as many months, the Supreme Court heard arguments in an abortion case. This time, the justices are being asked to decide whether a federal law that requires emergency care in hospitals can trump Idaho’s near-total abortion ban. Meanwhile, the federal government, for the first time, will require minimum staffing standards for nursing homes. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Tami Luhby of CNN, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week they think you should read, too.

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Montana State Officials Seek More Control Over Judicial Involuntary Commitments

By Aaron Bolton, MTPR September 11, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Health department officials are asking legislators to change criminal commitment laws amid a bottleneck at the Montana State Hospital.

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ER’s Error Lands a 4-Year-Old in Collections (For Care He Didn’t Receive)

By Daniel Chang March 29, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A Florida woman tried to dispute an emergency room bill, but the hospital and collection agency refused to talk to her — because it was her child’s name on the bill, not hers.

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An Arm and a Leg: ‘Your Money or Your Life’: This Doctor Wrote the Book on Medical Debt

By Dan Weissmann November 9, 2023 Podcast

What happens when you can’t afford the health care you need? On this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” hear from emergency medicine physician and historian Luke Messac about the history of medical debt collection in the United States.

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How National Political Ambition Could Fuel, or Fail, Initiatives to Protect Abortion Rights in States

By Bram Sable-Smith and Rachana Pradhan March 19, 2024 KFF Health News Original

As money flows to abortion rights initiatives in states, some donors focus on where anger over the “Dobbs” ruling could propel voter turnout and spur Democratic victories up and down the ballot, including in key Senate races and the White House.

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How Billing Turns a Routine Birth Into a High-Cost Emergency

By Rae Ellen Bichell October 27, 2021 KFF Health News Original

“Obstetrical emergency departments” are a new feature in some hospitals that can inflate medical bills for even the easiest, healthiest births. Just ask the parents of Baby Gus.

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How Banks and Private Equity Cash In When Patients Can’t Pay Their Medical Bills

By Noam N. Levey and Aneri Pattani November 17, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Hospitals strike deals with financing companies, generating profits for lenders, and more debt for patients.

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Medicaid Advocates Say Critics Use Loaded Terms To Gain Edge in Congressional Debate

By Phil Galewitz March 7, 2025 KFF Health News Original

As policymakers in Washington debate potentially steep funding cuts to Medicaid, Republicans are using terms such as “money laundering” and “discrimination” to make their case. Language experts and Medicaid advocates say their word choice is misleading and designed to sway the public against the popular program.

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California Universities Are Required to Offer Abortion Pills. Many Just Don’t Mention It.

By Jackie Fortiér, LAist and Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, LAist April 2, 2024 KFF Health News Original

One year after California became the first state to require public universities to provide abortion pills to students, LAist found that basic information for students to obtain the medication is often nonexistent.

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A New Test Could Save Arthritis Patients Time, Money, and Pain. But Will It Be Used?

By Arthur Allen December 20, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Stories of chronic pain, drug-hopping, and insurance meddling are all too common among patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Precision medicine offers new hope.

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The Disability Tax: Medical Bills Remain Inaccessible for Many Blind Americans

By Lauren Weber and Hannah Recht December 2, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Health insurers and health care systems across the country are violating disability rights laws by sending medical bills that blind and visually impaired people cannot read, a KHN investigation has found. By hindering the ability of blind Americans to know what they owe, some bills get sent to debt collections.

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‘Financial Ruin Is Baked Into the System’: Readers on the Costs of Long-Term Care

By Jordan Rau and Reed Abelson, The New York Times December 15, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Thousands of people shared their experiences and related to the financial drain on families portrayed in the “Dying Broke” series, a joint project by KFF Health News and The New York Times that examined the costs of long-term care.

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Union With Labor Dispute of Its Own Threatened To Cut Off Workers’ Health Benefits

By Phil Galewitz Updated July 26, 2024 Originally Published July 26, 2024 KFF Health News Original

The National Education Association, the nation’s largest union, told striking workers that their health coverage would be cut off Aug. 1 absent a deal on a new contract. Tensions have mounted after staff disrupted the union’s convention, at which President Joe Biden had been scheduled to speak.

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The AMA May Reconsider Single-Payer Health Care

By Julie Rovner November 1, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Is the American Medical Association going soft on single-payer health care? We’re about to find out. For more than a century, the most influential U.S. physician group has stridently opposed what could generally be described as “national health insurance.” It famously helped defeat health reform efforts in the 1930s and 1940s, delayed the establishment of […]

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Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts

By Sarah Jane Tribble and Holly K. Hacker Data visualizations by Lydia Zuraw May 14, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Taxpayers — through federal infrastructure programs — have paid billions of dollars to internet companies to hook up rural Americans. Some communities have nothing to show for it, leaving medically vulnerable rural patients disconnected and without access to telehealth.

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Tossed Medicine, Delayed Housing: How Homeless Sweeps Are Thwarting Medicaid’s Goals

By Angela Hart September 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

As California cities crack down on homeless encampments in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling authorizing fines and arrests, front-line workers say such sweeps are undercutting billions in state and federal Medicaid spending meant to stabilize people’s health and get them off the streets.

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