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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Fetal Tissue Research Is Latest Flashpoint In Abortion Debate

Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss the Trump administration’s efforts to curtail federally funded research using fetal tissue, the backlash from former Vice President Joe Biden’s support for the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment and how health policy intersects with both trade and immigration policy.

June 6, 2019

What The Possible End Of Abortions In Missouri Means For Neighboring States

While Missouri’s final abortion clinic may stop providing the procedure this week, women in the state had already been seeking care in neighboring states as regulations increasingly limited abortion access.

By Lauren Weber

May 28, 2019

Hospitals Chafe Under Medicare’s New Payment Rule For Off-Campus Clinics

Under the rule that took effect this year, Medicare will lower payments for clinic visits performed at hospital-owned facilities to a rate that is equivalent to what it pays an independent doctor. Federal officials expect the move will save the government $380 million this year.

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez

April 26, 2019

Elite Hospitals Plunge Into Unproven Stem Cell Treatments

Critics are concerned about the explosion in controversial stem cell procedures offered by clinics — and, increasingly, respected hospitals.

By Liz Szabo

April 2, 2019

HHS Finalizes Rule Seeking To Expel Planned Parenthood From Family Planning Program

The new regulation would drop previous rules for the Title X program requiring that women with unintended pregnancies be told about all options, including abortion. It would also mandate that organizations separate facilities providing federally funded services from those providing abortions.

By Julie Rovner

Feb. 22, 2019

Measles Outbreak Sends Vaccine Demand Soaring, Even Among The Hesitant

The number of health clinic orders and shots administered rose sharply in January compared with last year, Washington county officials say.

By JoNel Aleccia

Feb. 6, 2019

Trump Rollback Of Disability Rules Can Make Doctor’s Visits Painstaking

Standards have been proposed to address what are often viewed as disparities in treatment, but the Trump administration has declined to enforce them.

By Rachel Bluth

Oct. 31, 2018

2018 Elections

Republicans’ Drive To Tighten Immigration Overlooks Need For Doctors

Many areas in the U.S. depend on foreign doctors, but bitter political arguments over immigration have sown concerns about limited opportunities for these physicians.

By Max Blau, Andy Miller and Katja Ridderbusch, Georgia Health News and KFF Health News

Oct. 30, 2018

2018 Elections

Patient Advocacy Or Political Ploy? Union, Industry Square Off Over Dialysis Initiative

The measure, which will appear on the November ballot, seeks to cap industry profits. The SEIU-UHW union has raised almost $17 million, but opponents from the industry have invested more than four times that.

By David Tuller and Harriet Blair Rowan

Oct. 5, 2018

‘Contraception Deserts’ Likely To Widen Under New Trump Administration Policy

Federal family planning funds, known as Title X, will soon fund for-profit women’s clinics that bar condoms, hormonal birth control and IUDs and offer only “natural family planning.”

By Sarah Varney

Sept. 28, 2018

California Clinic Screens Asylum Seekers For Honesty

As new federal policies make it harder to gain asylum in the U.S., foreign applicants try to improve their chances by having doctors evaluate their conditions — perhaps bolstering their stories of torture and violent persecution back home.

By Anna Gorman

July 16, 2018

Tennessee-Based Pain Management Group To Close Clinics Amid Financial Turmoil

The CEO of Comprehensive Pain Specialists was indicted in April. Now the group is closing clinics across several states.

By Fred Schulte

July 3, 2018

Postcard From L.A.

Dialysis Patients Sign Up For November Ballot Fight

Frustrated by dialysis centers they call dirty and understaffed, patients and health care workers rallied across California Thursday before delivering more than 600,000 signatures to election offices in support of a ballot initiative intended to improve patient care.

By Ana B. Ibarra

April 6, 2018

Insuring Your Health

Tele-Monitoring Can Reduce Medical Appointments For Low-Risk Pregnancies

In a program called OB Nest, Mayo has been using a telemedicine program in its obstetrics clinic in Rochester, Minn., that allows low-risk expectant mothers to forego some standard prenatal visits.

By Michelle Andrews

March 27, 2018

Upsurge Of Suburban Poor Discover Health Care’s Nowhere Land

More low-income people now live in suburbs than in cities or rural areas, putting a strain on local health services. Suburbs, which traditionally have had fewer resources or infrastructure, are scrambling to catch up.

By Elaine Korry

Feb. 9, 2018

Community Health Centers Caught In ‘Washington’s Political Dysfunction’

The centers, which serve 27 million people, get about 20 percent of their funding from the federal government. But that revenue is slated to end on March 31.

By Steven Findlay

Feb. 5, 2018

Listen: How A ‘Hippie Clinic’ In San Francisco Inspired A Medical Philosophy

The Haight Ashbury Free Clinic still serves people living on the fringes in San Francisco. This radio story recounts its 51-year history.

By Carrie Feibel, KQED

Jan. 10, 2018

From Retirement To The Front Lines Of Hepatitis C Treatment

This doctor came out of retirement with the goal of treating every patient at high risk for hepatitis C he encounters. The problem is finding them.

By Julio Ochoa, WUSF

Jan. 5, 2018

Congress’ Cold Shoulder Sends Shivers Through Community Health Centers

The clinics, which serve many poor people, are tightening spending in case Congress doesn’t approve new funding for them before the government’s 2018 fiscal year starts Sunday.

By Rachel Bluth

Sept. 27, 2017