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There could be a long legal struggle ahead over the decision by a judge in Texas to invalidate the federal health law. But if his decision stands, it would have long-lasting effects on health care from insurance coverage to Medicare payments to privacy protections.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you donât have to.
Sign-ups for insurance under the Affordable Care Act are still well behind last yearâs mark with just a week until the end of open enrollment in most states. The Supreme Court declines a case that could have allowed states to defund Planned Parenthood. And the Trump administration gets hundreds of thousands of comments about its proposed changes to immigration rules that could penalize people who use government-funded health care and other social service programs. Alice Ollstein of Politico, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and, for âextra credit,â provide their favorite health policy stories of the week.
Diabetics dying because they canât afford insulin. Organ transplant patients undergoing âwallet biopsiesâ to get on waiting lists. Are out-of-pocket costs going to dominate the health discussion in the next election? Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss this as well as new Trump administration rules giving states the ability to make major changes to the Affordable Care Act. Also, lame-duck lawmakers in Wisconsin and Michigan try to cement health changes before Democrats take over.
A probe by the Government Accountability Office cites breakdowns in the Food and Drug Administration program that approves drugs for rare diseases.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you donât have to.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you donât have to.
In this episode of KHNâs âWhat the Health?â Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Alice Ollstein of Politico discuss how the Democratsâ takeover of the House and other results from the Nov. 6 elections might affect health care, and what Congress may have in store for the lame-duck session.
In this episode of KHNâs âWhat the Health?â Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call and Joanne Kenen of Politico discuss the Trump administrationâs new birth control coverage rules and the potential impact of the midterm election results on health policy.
The money was paid on behalf of more than 400,000 people who may have been ineligible for the public program, a state audit found. One had been dead for four years before payments stopped.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you donât have to.
Over the past five months, the Trump administration has proposed a series of reforms to lower the cost of prescription drugs.
In this episode of KHNâs âWhat the Health?â Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Alice Ollstein of Politico discuss a flurry of proposals from the Trump administration on prices Medicare pays for drugs and the Affordable Care Act.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you donât have to.
In this episode of KHNâs âWhat the Health?â Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call, Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal and Joanne Kenen of Politico discuss how protections for people with preexisting conditions have become a top issue in the elections, Trump administration efforts to make prescription drug prices more public and the start of Medicareâs annual open-enrollment period. Plus, Rovner interviews California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
In this episode of KHNâs âWhat the Health?â Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News discuss the Trump administrationâs announcement that average premium prices are falling on the Obamacare marketplaces, the effort by Senate Democrats to reverse rules on short-term health insurance and the focus on protections for people with preexisting conditions in the run-up to midterm elections.
Just weeks before midterm elections, a move by federal health officials spotlights a contentious issue: the use of human fetal tissue in research. Hereâs what you need to know to understand the debate.
Health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers are exploring how two legal provisions â which have been on the books for decades â could bring down the price tags of certain prescription medications.Â
In this episode of KHNâs âWhat the Health?â Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner discuss final action on bills in Congress to address the opioid epidemic and fund federal health agencies. They also look at new efforts by the Food and Drug Administration to crack down on teen nicotine use.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you donât have to.
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