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Journalists Dissect Covid Vaccines and Variants

March 6, 2021 KFF Health News Original

KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

What the Health? From KFF Health News: Au Revoir, Public Health Emergency

February 2, 2023 Podcast

The Biden administration this week announced it would let the covid-19 public health emergency lapse on May 11, even as the Republican-led House was voting to immediately eliminate the special authorities of the so-called PHE. Meanwhile, anti-abortion forces are pressuring legislators to both tighten abortion restrictions and pay for every birth in the nation. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Rachel Roubein of The Washington Post, and Victoria Knight of Axios join KHN’s chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Hannah Wesolowski of the National Alliance on Mental Illness about the rollout of the national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives

By Noam N. Levey and Aneri Pattani and Yuki Noguchi, NPR News and Bram Sable-Smith Updated December 21, 2022 Originally Published June 16, 2022 KFF Health News Original

People talk about the sacrifices they made when health care forced them into debt.

Zooming Into the Statehouse: Nursing Home Residents Use New Digital Skills to Push for Changes

By Susan Jaffe June 9, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Connecticut residents who learned how to communicate with family and friends through digital technology when their nursing homes closed to visitors last year used that skill to testify remotely during legislative hearings on bills affecting them.

The Pandemic Made Telemedicine an Instant Hit. Patients and Providers Feel the Growing Pains.

By Hannah Norman July 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Patients seem to like remote visits, and health care providers now depend on them. But outages, freezing and other glitches cost time and money, and compromise quality of care.

Biden’s July Executive Order Includes Drug Pricing Provisions. But Will They Do Enough?

By Victoria Knight July 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The July 9 directive addresses the importation of prescription drugs and broader efforts to reduce the high cost of medicines.

Are Public Health Ads Worth the Price? Not if They’re All About Fear

By Eric Berger January 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Public service announcements about drug use or other public health problems often fall short, public health marketing experts say, because they incite people’s worst fears rather than giving people solutions.

Orange County Hospital Seeks Divorce From Large Catholic Health System

By Bernard J. Wolfson April 13, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Frustration with the standardization of care across 51 hospitals, loss of local control and restrictions on reproductive health care have pitted Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian against the Providence chain.

New California Law Makes It Easier to Get Care for Mental Health and Substance Abuse

By Bernard J. Wolfson February 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The measure, which took effect Jan. 1, removes loopholes that made it easy for insurers to use arcane company guidelines to avoid paying for care. Patients now have an easier way to challenge those denials.

California Aims to Address the ‘Urgent’ Needs of Older Residents. But Will Its Plan Work?

By Samantha Young February 18, 2021 KFF Health News Original

State officials recently unveiled a “master plan” to address the needs of California’s rapidly aging population, from housing to long-term care. Kim McCoy Wade, director of the state Department of Aging, vows it will not end up on a shelf gathering dust.

It’s Open Enrollment. Here’s What You Need to Know

By Bernard J. Wolfson November 4, 2020 KFF Health News Original

For Californians who are buying their own insurance, enrollment in 2021 health plans runs through Jan. 31.

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Getting Down to Work at HHS

March 25, 2021 KFF Health News Original

After a bruising confirmation process, Xavier Becerra was sworn in as secretary of Health and Human Services this week. The Senate also confirmed the nominations of former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to return to the post he held in the Obama administration, and former Pennsylvania health secretary Rachel Levine as assistant secretary for health. Levine is the first openly transgender person to receive Senate confirmation. Meanwhile, questions continue to swirl around the AstraZeneca covid vaccine, which some public health experts worry will create more hesitancy toward other vaccines.

From ‘Physician Assistant’ to Medicare, Readers and Tweeters Mince No Words

December 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

KHN gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Staffing Up at HHS

February 26, 2021 KFF Health News Original

More than a month into the Biden administration, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, the nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, finally got his confirmation hearings in the Senate, along with nominees for surgeon general and assistant secretary for health. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court announced it would hear a case challenging the Trump administration’s regulation that effectively evicted Planned Parenthood from the federal family planning program. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Tami Luhby of CNN and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews HuffPost’s Jonathan Cohn, whose new book, “The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage,” is out this week.

The WHO Didn’t Reverse Its Position on Kids and Covid Vaccines

By Victoria Knight June 25, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The World Health Organization this week updated its guidance on children and covid vaccinations — but in a different way than alleged in a viral social media post.

Fútbol, Flags and Fun: Getting Creative to Reach Unvaccinated Latinos in Colorado

By John Daley, Colorado Public Radio July 16, 2021 KFF Health News Original

A vaccine clinic came to an international soccer tournament in Denver recently. It was an attempt to reach Latino Coloradans, whose vaccination rates trail those of non-Hispanic whites.

To Vaccinate Veterans, Health Care Workers Must Cross Mountains, Plains and Tundra

By Patricia Kime February 19, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Veterans Affairs officials are flying COVID-19 vaccines to remote locations in Montana and Alaska to quickly inoculate rural veterans before the drugs expire.

Delta Variant Surges in Colorado as the Bands Play On

By Rae Ellen Bichell July 8, 2021 KFF Health News Original

Mesa County is a breeding ground for the covid-19 delta variant, but few would guess with tens of thousands of people flocking to the state’s largest country music festival.

FDA Weighs Approval of a Lucrative Alzheimer’s Drug, but Benefits Are Iffy

By Harris Meyer June 4, 2021 KFF Health News Original

The agency is to decide by June 7 whether to greenlight Biogen’s drug aducanumab, despite a near-unanimous rejection of the product by an FDA advisory committee of outside experts in November. Some scientists at the agency have endorsed the drug, though.

CDC Says Cloth Masks Don’t Protect Against Covid As Much As N95s, KN95s

January 18, 2022 Morning Briefing

The agency clarified its guidance on masks after recently saying that wearing any mask was better than wearing no mask. It also updated its website to say that there is no longer a shortage of N95s and that anyone can wear them without worrying they will be shortchanging health care workers.

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