Health Care Heartaches: Your Winning Health Policy Valentines
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News shares our favorite reader-submitted health policy valentines. One struck us in the heart and inspired an original cartoon.
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Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News shares our favorite reader-submitted health policy valentines. One struck us in the heart and inspired an original cartoon.
Affordable health care is our love language. We want to see your most clever, heartfelt, or hilarious tributes to the policies that shape health care. And we've sweetened the deal with prizes.
This year’s most spirited Halloween haikus were inspired by tick migration, Medicaid work requirements, and rising copays.
Submissions are open for Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News’ seventh annual Halloween haiku competition. Conjure your most chilling verses — if you dare.
Social Security has been overpaying recipients for years, then demanding the money back, leaving people with bills for up to tens of thousands of dollars or more.
A Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News database tracks campaign donations from drugmakers over the past 10 years.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. Health and Human Services secretary. As attorney general and during his 24 years in Congress, he has staked progressive positions on health care issues, fighting the Trump administration on contraception, suing a major California health system for monopolistic behavior and calling himself a supporter of single-payer health care.
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are partnering up to address employee health care costs and improve satisfaction. Can they deliver? And would repackaging health insurance involve drones?
For some federal health programs, a shuttered government means business as usual. But the congressional impasse over funding will hit others hard.
Companies with at least 50 workers now have until 2015 to provide coverage. Here's what that change means - and doesn't mean - for employees and employers.
The GOP "Path to Prosperity" 2012 budget blueprint includes proposals to restrain spending growth in health care costs by voucherizing Medicare and giving Medicaid block grants to states.
Are vouchers the same as premium support? Will seniors' health care look like that offered federal workers? A guide to some of the questions and issues in the House Budget chairman's plan.
We asked 12 players from across the nation what they thought they would have accomplished by next year's anniversary of the health law, or what issues they expect to be central in the ongoing debate.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has issued nearly 40 pages of new health spending and cuts it says would reduce the federal deficit by billions of dollars including changes to the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
In a letter to Justice Thomas, 74 House Democratic members write that "the only correct path" is for the judge to recuse himself from deliberations on cases involving the new health care law.
On Wednesday, 28 GOP governors sent a letter to President Obama asking him to foster faster review of the health care overhaul lawsuits so the Supreme Court can rule on their constitutionality "as soon as possible."
President Barack Obama Friday morning addressed a group of people gathered at the Families USA Health Action conference and continued his defense of the health law.
With Republicans setting a Jan. 12 vote in the House to try to repeal the new health care law, here is the language of the GOP's repeal and health reform bills.
The Congressional Budget Office says that repealing the Democrats' health law will add to budget deficits over the long-term and to the tune of $145 billion through 2019.
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: The GOP's fight to repeal the law and what the party can offer instead; states' efforts to beat back growing Medicaid costs; consumers' troubles affording care.
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