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A Brush With A Notorious Cat, My Rabies Education And The Big Bill That Followed

By Caitlin Hillyard August 20, 2019 KFF Health News Original

An encounter with a cat led to rabies shots and provided yet another illustration of how confusing, contrary and expensive the American health care system is.

Biden Calling ACA A ‘Breakthrough’ For Mental Health Parity Only Highlights Gaps

By Shefali Luthra July 11, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Did the Affordable Care Act create equal coverage of mental and physical health? Seems true on paper but not always in practice.

Doctors Can Change Opioid Prescribing Habits, But Progress Comes In Small Doses

By Julie Appleby and Elizabeth Lucas August 14, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Research out Wednesday indicates that guidelines are making strides in cutting back the number of pain pills doctors offer after specific types of surgeries.

Trump Thinks Testing Is No Longer A Problem, But Governors Beg To Disagree

March 31, 2020 Morning Briefing

President Donald Trump said in a phone call with governors that he hadn’t heard about testing concerns in weeks. “It would be shocking to me that if anyone who has had access to any newspaper, radio, social networks or any other communication would not be knowledgeable about the need for test kits,” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said about the president’s comments. Meanwhile, The New York Times takes a deep dive into the lost month where testing flaws set the country back in its efforts to contain the outbreak. Meanwhile, companies race to put out a fast test, but the virus may be moving even faster.

How Obamacare, Medicare And ‘Medicare For All’ Muddy The Campaign Trail

By Shefali Luthra May 13, 2019 KFF Health News Original

A talking point used by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refers to all three of these distinct concepts in a way that could magnify public misperceptions.

Feds Want To Show Health Care Costs On Your Phone, But That Could Take Years

By Fred Schulte May 7, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Giving consumers more knowledge about the costs of care has long been desired, but administration officials cautioned it could take two years or more for useful data to appear in a phone app.

Politicians Hop Aboard ‘Medicare-For-All’ Train, Destination Unknown

By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Shefali Luthra October 22, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Candidates are charging toward midterm elections on a platform of single-payer and universal coverage rhetoric. Yet “Medicare-for-all” and single-payer mean different things to different people.

Where Tourism Brings Pricey Health Care, Locals Fight Back

By Julie Appleby August 9, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Residents in Colorado ski resort country found relief from high insurance premiums and high hospital costs by joining forces and negotiating prices directly with the local hospital.

If Your Insurer Covers Few Therapists, Is That Really Mental Health Parity?

By Jenny Gold November 30, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Behavioral care was four times more likely to be out-of-network than medical or surgical care, an analysis by Milliman shows.

‘Climate Grief’: Fears About The Planet’s Future Weigh On Americans’ Mental Health

By Victoria Knight July 18, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Although there’s no official clinical diagnosis, the psychiatric and psychological communities have names for the phenomenon of worrying about the Earth’s fate: “climate distress,” “climate grief,” “climate anxiety” or “eco-anxiety.” The concept also is gradually making its way into the public consciousness in television shows and movies.

A Medical Sanctuary For Migrant Farmworkers

By John M. Glionna May 21, 2019 KFF Health News Original

A former farmworker, now a doctor, runs two clinics in California’s Central Valley providing care — often free of charge — for migrants who don’t have money and are deeply worried about the federal government’s hard-line stance on immigration.

Readers And Tweeters: Are Millennials Killing The Primary Care Doctor?

October 26, 2018 KFF Health News Original

Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging

By Laura Ungar and Trudy Lieberman September 3, 2019 KFF Health News Original

One out of every 13 older Americans struggles to find enough food to eat while the federal program intended to help hasn’t kept pace with the graying population.

In Weary Post-Storm Puerto Rico, Medicaid Cutbacks Bode New Ills

By Sarah Varney and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez August 6, 2018 KFF Health News Original

The island’s government must squeeze $840.2 million in annual savings from Medicaid by 2023, part of the U.S. territory’s agreement with the federal government as Puerto Rico claws its way back from fiscal oblivion. Experts warn such drastic cuts defy actuarial science.

Surgeons’ Opioid-Prescribing Habits Are Hard To Kick

By Julie Appleby and Elizabeth Lucas June 21, 2019 KFF Health News Original

A new data analysis by KHN and Johns Hopkins researchers shows that even as the CDC issued warnings, surgeons handed out many times the number of opioid pills needed for post-op pain.

Viewpoints: Don’t Believe GOP Spin On Preexisting Conditions Protections; Stop Charging Patients For Hospital Out-Of-Network Costs

October 29, 2018 Morning Briefing

Editorial pages focus on these health care topics and others.

In India’s Slums, ‘Painkillers Are Part Of The Daily Routine’

By Sarah Varney August 29, 2019 KFF Health News Original

As the Indian government reluctantly loosens its prescription opioid laws after decades of lobbying by palliative care advocates desperate to ease their patients’ pain, the nation’s sprawling, cash-fed health care system is ripe for misuse.

After A Rural Hospital Closes, Delays In Emergency Care Cost Patients Dearly

By Sarah Jane Tribble Photos by Christopher Smith August 19, 2019 KFF Health News Original

The loss of the longtime hospital in Fort Scott, Kan., forces trauma patients to deal with changing services and expectations.

Infusion Treatments — Needed or Not — Can Deplete Patients’ Wallets

By Shefali Luthra August 2, 2019 KFF Health News Original

When it comes to physician-administered infusion drugs, doctors sometimes have a financial reason for their choice and patients often aren’t aware of cheaper options.

Walmart Charts New Course By Steering Workers To High-Quality Imaging Centers

By Phil Galewitz May 15, 2019 KFF Health News Original

Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, is recommending that employees and dependents use one of 800 imaging centers identified as providing trustworthy care.

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