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Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ The Politics Of Rising Premiums And Menu Labeling

In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Anna Edney of Bloomberg News discuss the latest on the politics of rising premiums, GOP efforts to take back money from the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the controversy over new rules requiring calorie information on menus. Plus for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health stories of the week.

May 10, 2018

Treating The Tiniest Opioid Patients

For The Babies Of The Opioid Crisis, The Best Care May Be Mom’s Recovery

Research is just beginning on infants born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, and doctors are optimistic that normal development is possible. Monitoring the families and making sure parents are treated for addiction is key.

By Sarah Jane Tribble

May 10, 2018

4 Takeaways From Trump’s Plan To Rescind CHIP Funding

President Donald Trump is recommending that Congress approve his plan to take back about $7 billion in funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Plan. Experts are divided about whether it would have any effect.

By Phil Galewitz

May 8, 2018

The Juul’s So Cool, Kids Smoke It In School

The teenage smoking sensation appearing on high school campuses across the country is an easy-to-hide, high-nicotine device called the Juul. Educators and health care advocates fear that vulnerable young people may become addicted.

By Ana B. Ibarra

March 26, 2018

Medicaid Nation

Medicaid Is Rural America’s Financial Midwife

Medicaid payments allow struggling hospitals to maintain vital costly services such as maternity care.

By Shefali Luthra

March 12, 2018

Medicaid Nation

How Medicaid Became A Go-To Funder For Schools

Begun as a health care safety net for children and low-income families, Medicaid increasingly underwrites a range of services in America’s public schools.

By Anna Gorman and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez

March 9, 2018

Rhymes Of Their Times: Young Poets Riff On Type 2

A Bay Area public health campaign harnesses the power of poetry to confront the root causes of a diabetes epidemic that is disproportionately hitting minority youth and those from low-income homes.

By Elaine Korry

March 9, 2018

When Wildfire Smoke Invades, Who Should Pay To Clean Indoor Air?

Public health agencies are set up to regulate easily controlled sources of air pollution. Wildfire smoke presents a different set of expensive challenges.

By Nora Saks, Montana Public Radio

March 8, 2018

Mental Health Funding Tied To Florida’s Controversial Gun Legislation

The same Florida bill that would put more guns in schools would provide the state with $90 million more for mental health resources, including $69 million for schools. Advocates say those funds for mental health care are desperately needed.

By Julio Ochoa, WUSF

March 7, 2018

After Raising Age For Tobacco Purchases, State Sees Decreased Sales To Minors

A new study shows that, in California, moving the minimum age from 18 to 21 significantly reduced purchase by those under 18. That could be because teenagers had less access to tobacco through slightly older friends.

By Jocelyn Wiener

March 7, 2018

Medicaid Nation

States Strive To Curb Costs For A Crucial — But Exorbitant — Hemophilia Treatment

Saving the lives of people with the bleeding disorder can require high doses of expensive blood-clotting factor. Taxpayers foot much of the bill as manufacturers profit enormously.

By Barbara Feder Ostrov

March 6, 2018

After Shooting, ‘Honor How Kids Want To Deal With Their Feelings’

Christine Sylvest, a child psychologist who now works in Maryland, for three years attended the Parkland, Fla., high school where a shooting attack left 17 people dead last week. She says the tragedy affects the entire community.

By Phil Galewitz

Feb. 22, 2018

Bipartisan Senate Budget Deal Boosts Health Programs

The agreement would add $2 billion to the National Institutes of Health and fund community health centers around the country. But it does not include provisions to help stabilize the federal health law’s marketplaces.

By Julie Rovner and Shefali Luthra

Feb. 7, 2018

As Marijuana Laws Relax, Doctors Say Pregnant Women Shouldn’t Partake

Some mothers who smoke pot see it as a harmless remedy for everything from pain to postpartum depression. But doctors say the active ingredients in marijuana can be passed onto the baby and may affect developing nervous systems.

By Sarah Varney

Jan. 31, 2018

Medicaid Nation

No Car, No Care? Medicaid Transportation At Risk In Some States

For more than 50 years, the program for the poor and sick has been required to ferry certain clients to and from medical appointments. But a few states have sought — and received — waivers to that rule.

By JoNel Aleccia

Jan. 30, 2018

Ask Emily

Family Crisis Or New Joy? Get Paid Time Off For It

California’s family leave program allows people to get time off to care for a new child or sick relative. The wage replacement rate rises this year.

By Emily Bazar

Jan. 29, 2018

Podcast: ‘What The Health?’ CHIP (Finally) Gets Funded

In this episode of “What The Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post discuss the short-term spending bill passed by Congress that reopened the federal government and funded the Children’s Health Insurance Program for six years. The panelists also discussed the health programs still awaiting funding, and the intersection of religion and women’s health services at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Jan. 25, 2018

After Months In Limbo For Children’s Health Insurance, Huge Relief Over Deal

The Children's Health Insurance Program drew bipartisan support for two decades. After brinkmanship over the federal budget, an agreement to end the shutdown has assured CHIP funding for six years.

By Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR

Jan. 25, 2018

CHIP Renewed For Six Years As Congress Votes To Reopen Federal Government

Funding for CHIP technically expired Oct. 1. Although both Democrats and Republicans said they wanted to continue the program, they could not agree on how to fund it.

By Julie Rovner

Jan. 22, 2018