Three Major Themes In U.S. Health Care Spending
Kaiser Health News senior correspondent Julie Appleby examines the factors driving the $2.6 trillion in annual health care spending in the U.S.
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Fixing Health Care Isn’t About Party, ‘It’s About Building A Sustainable System’ – The KHN Interview
Dr. Vivek Murthy, the co-founder of Doctors for America, talked about his organization’s recent bus tour and what concerns physicians about the way the nation’s health system operates.
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Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs
The United States spends more on health care services than any other country, exceeding $2.6 trillion, or about 18 percent of gross domestic product. Here are seven ways you or your medical providers play a role.
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Oklahoma Looks for Ways to Keep Mentally Ill Ex-offenders Out of Prison
Oklahoma prisoners with mental illnesses face a myriad of obstacles in rejoining society, but a state program seeks to reintroduce them to society, keep them on medication and save them from returning to prison.
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Questions Linger About Implementing Doctors’ Medicaid Pay Raise
The health law seeks to lure more doctors to treat the poor by increasing the pay rates but states and physicians have concerns about how this will work.
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Wis. Senate Candidates Spar Over Health Issues
Former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and Rep. Tammy Baldwin bring an unusual level of health care expertise to the campaign.
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Insurers Are Again Selling Child-Only Health Policies After Interventions From States, Study Finds
Many companies stopped selling the plans that cover just children after the federal health law prohibited them from rejecting kids with preexisting medical conditions.
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Nursing Home Patients Returning To The Community
A federal program is helping thousands of elderly and disabled patients transition from nursing homes to more independent living.
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Tennessee Plan Would Help Medicaid Families Keep Health Coverage
Faced with the strain Medicaid “churn” places on families in Tennessee, officials there are asking for federal approval of a project that would offer special health plans to families with at least one member on Medicaid to help maintain health coverage for the entire family.
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Voters’ Voices: Three Reagan Democrats Talk Medicare
The Reagan Democrats of the 1980s are older and and many are on Medicare, a program that the GOP wants to alter dramatically. Do they still hold true to the Gipper’s smaller government ethos, even if it might mean big changes to the program for seniors and the disabled?
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