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Amid Dire Suicide Rates in Montana, Governor Expands Student Mental Health Screening

By Keely Larson February 17, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte announced a $2.1 million grant using federal aid after state lawmakers rejected a bill that would have essentially addressed the same needs of young people at risk of suicide.

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A Lot of Thought, Little Action: Proposals About Mental Health Go Unheeded

By Sam Ogozalek, Tampa Bay Times March 22, 2023 KFF Health News Original

A recent report detailing problems with Florida’s patchwork mental health system had reached conclusions nearly identical to those of a similar report from more than 20 years ago. The echoes between the findings are unmistakable. And Florida isn’t the only state struggling with the criminalization of mental illness, a lack of coordination between providers, and insufficient access to treatment.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: On Capitol Hill, Actions Have Consequences

January 14, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Several large business groups, including health industry organizations, are cutting off contributions to Republicans who voted against the certification of Joe Biden’s election even after riots shut down the Capitol on Jan. 6. Meanwhile, the outgoing Trump administration not only approved a Medicaid block grant for Tennessee, but also made it difficult for the incoming Biden administration to undo. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, Rovner interviews KHN’s Victoria Knight about the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” episode.

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Hoping to Clear the Air in Casinos, Workers Seek to Ban Tobacco Smoke

By Sandy West January 11, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Casinos in several states are fighting efforts to ban smoking, and trying to roll back existing anti-smoking laws. One planned facility even moved outside a city’s limits because of voter-approved smoking restrictions.

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Community With High Medical Debt Questions Its Hospitals’ Charity Spending

By Markian Hawryluk Updated August 29, 2023 Originally Published August 17, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Pueblo, Colorado, residents have higher-than-average medical debt, while the city’s two tax-exempt hospitals provide relatively low levels of charity care.

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California Offers a Lifeline for Medical Residents Who Can’t Find Abortion Training

By Laurie Udesky January 10, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Abortion restrictions in 18 states have curtailed access to training in skills that doctors say are critical for OB-GYN specialists and others. A new California law makes it easier for out-of-state doctors to get experience in reproductive medicine.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': As US Bumps Against Debt Ceiling, Medicare Becomes a Bargaining Chip

January 19, 2023 Podcast

The debt ceiling crisis facing Washington puts Medicare and other popular entitlement programs squarely on the negotiating table this year as newly empowered Republicans demand spending cuts. Meanwhile, as more Americans than ever have health insurance, the nation’s health care workforce is straining under the load. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Tami Luhby of CNN, and Victoria Knight of Axios join KHN’s chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.

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Medicaid and Abortion Top Health Agenda for Montana Lawmakers

By Keely Larson January 9, 2023 KFF Health News Original

State lawmakers say their health care goals for the new legislative session are to lower costs and improve access to care. They’ll have to grapple with a full slate of other issues, as well.

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Can a Fetus Be an Employee? States Are Testing the Boundaries of Personhood After ‘Dobbs’

By Bram Sable-Smith Illustration by Oona Zenda May 5, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Laws granting rights to unborn children have spread in the decades since the U.S. and Missouri supreme courts allowed Missouri’s definition of life as beginning at conception to stand. Now, a wrongful death lawsuit involving a workplace accident shows how sprawling those laws — often intended to curb abortion — have become.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Health Programs Are at Risk as Debt Ceiling Cave-In Looms

May 4, 2023 Podcast

A warning from the Treasury Department that the U.S. could default on its debt as soon as June 1 has galvanized lawmakers to intervene. But there is still no obvious way to reconcile Republican demands to slash federal spending with President Joe Biden’s demand to raise the debt ceiling and save the spending fight for a later date. Meanwhile, efforts to pass abortion bans in conservative states are starting to stall as some Republicans rebel against the most severe bans. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more.

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Will the Doctor See You Now? The Health System’s Changing Landscape

By Julie Appleby and Michelle Andrews June 28, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The “front door” to the health system is changing, under pressure from increased demand, consolidation, and changing patient expectations.

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Lawyer Fees Draw Scrutiny as Camp Lejeune Claims Stack Up

By Michelle Andrews May 17, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The Camp Lejeune Justice Act, which became law last year, created a pathway for veterans and their families to pursue damage claims against the government for toxic exposure at the military base. Now, advocates and lawmakers worry high lawyer fees could shortchange those injured.

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Big Pharma Went All In to Kill Drug Pricing Negotiations

By Arthur Allen August 12, 2022 KFF Health News Original

For more than a century, the drug industry has issued dire warnings of plunging innovation whenever regulation reared its head. In general, the threat hasn’t materialized.

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Pregnant and Addicted: Homeless Women See Hope in Street Medicine

By Angela Hart October 18, 2023 KFF Health News Original

As homelessness explodes across California, so does the number of expectant mothers on the streets. Street medicine doctors are getting paid more by Medicaid and offering some of those mothers-to-be a chance to overcome addiction and reverse chronic diseases so they can have healthy babies — and perhaps keep them.

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For Young People on Medicare, a Hysterectomy Sometimes Is More Affordable Than Birth Control

By Gina Jiménez March 7, 2023 KFF Health News Original

While Medicare was designed as health insurance for those 65 and older, it also covers people with disabilities who are young enough to still get pregnant. Yet they often struggle to get their birth control covered and end up with large medical bills — or instead opt for hysterectomies or tubal ligations, which Medicare sometimes will cover.

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Special Medicaid Funds Help Most States, but Prompt Oversight Concerns

By Andy Miller April 10, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Georgia is among 35-plus states that have used an under-the-radar federal funding mechanism to boost payments for hospitals and other providers under Medicaid. But a government watchdog and a congressional advisory commission say sparse oversight makes it hard to tell if the “directed payments” program is meeting its goals.

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As Pandemic-Era Medicaid Provisions Lapse, Millions Approach a Coverage Cliff

By Phil Galewitz February 2, 2023 KFF Health News Original

States are trying to reach millions of Medicaid enrollees to make sure those still eligible remain covered and help others find new health insurance.

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Her Apartment Might Have Put Her Son’s Health at Risk. But ‘I Have Nowhere Else to Go.’

By Renuka Rayasam and Fred Clasen-Kelly December 1, 2022 KFF Health News Original

The United States is suffering from a severe shortage of affordable housing. But elected officials have done little to fix a problem that puts many Americans at greater risk for sickness and shortens lives.

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Federal Program to Save Rural Hospitals Feels ‘Growing Pains’

By Sarah Jane Tribble and Tony Leys January 16, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Fewer than two dozen rural hospitals were converted into Rural Emergency Hospitals in the program’s first year. Now, advocates and lawmakers say tweaks to the law are necessary to lure more takers and keep health care in rural communities.

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More Californians Are Dying at Home. Another Covid ‘New Normal’?

By Phillip Reese January 26, 2023 KFF Health News Original

The proportion of Californians dying at home, rather than in a hospital or nursing home, accelerated during the pandemic, a trend that has outlasted the rigid lockdowns linked to the initial shift.

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