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On Monday, Connecticut will be the first state to begin vaccinating anyone from age 55 to 64 ā instead of people with chronic health issues and essential workers.
Experts agreed thereās no definitive evidence to back up the Florida governorās assertion.
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor ā an outspoken former cop ā has clashed repeatedly with Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has limited what local officials can do to confront the pandemic. But she reached an uneasy peace with the state and is convinced that safeguards instituted by the NFL will help keep crowds safe at the NFL championship game.
As president, Donald Trump encouraged states to bring in drugs from Canada, where prices are cheaper. Itās not clear if the new administration will follow suit.
The number of adults seeking to get inoculated has risen since December, according to a new poll.
Nearly 6 in 10 people 65 and older say they donāt have enough information about how to get vaccinated, according to a new KFF poll.
A handful of states are making dentists a lower priority than other health professionals for inoculations, even though they have their hands in peopleās mouths and are exposed to aerosols that spray germs in their faces.
The lack of a federal strategy on how distribution should work at the local level means that states, hospitals, nursing homes and pharmacies are making decisions on their own about who gets vaccinated and when.
The plan, long endorsed by conservatives, would give the state broad authority in running the health insurance program for the poor in exchange for capping its annual federal funding.
Fears about lingering coronavirus at the White House are prompting a massive disinfection initiative before the Bidens move in.
Howard University Hospital officials are eager to get their 1,900 employees vaccinated, but so far few are showing up.
Everyone ā from toilet paper manufacturers to patient advocates ā is lobbying state advisory boards, arguing their members are essential, vulnerable or both ā and, thus, most deserving of an early vaccine.
The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed that the new administration review about 2,400 regulations that affect tens of millions of Americans, on everything from Medicare benefits to prescription drug approvals. Those not analyzed within two years would become void.
The stateās hospital association in September picked Mary Mayhew to be its new CEO. While leading the state Medicaid office, she was a vocal critic of the Affordable Care Actās Medicaid expansion program.
The Republican-led states are trying to prove they were harmed by the 2010 health law ā and thus have ālegal standingā ā because their Medicaid costs increased, even though Congress eliminated the penalty for not having health coverage in 2019. At least one justice was skeptical.
Hospitals, a potent political force, fear lowering the eligibility age will cost them billions of dollars in revenue because federal reimbursements are lower than private insurersā.
Sen. Lindsey Graham insinuates that the law is sending a disproportionate amount of money to New York, California and Massachusetts, all represented by Democrats.
The Trump administration sought to shrink the federal-state health program for low-income Americans and give states more flexibility. But Democrats and the courts thwarted most of those efforts.
No private firms bid on the $30 million contract to set up and operate the stateās plan to bring in cheaper drugs. The setback is likely to delay by at least several months Floridaās effort to become the first state to import drugs under new federal regulations.
A family plan costs, on average, more than $21,000 this year and workers pay nearly $5,600 toward that cost, the annual KFF survey of employers finds.
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