The Other COVID Risks: How Race, Income, ZIP Code Influence Who Lives Or Dies
Federal officials have known for nearly a decade which counties are most likely to suffer devastation â both in loss of lives and jobs â in a pandemic.
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âAn Arm And A Legâ: Am I Protected If I Need COVID-19 Care?
âAn Arm and a Legâ is back sharing stories about the ways COVID-19 intersects with the cost of health care. To tackle a listenerâs question about health coverage, Dan Weissmann spoke with one of the countryâs top insurance nerds.
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Listen: Battling The Coronavirus While Reopening The Economy
KHNâs Julie Rovner discusses the Trump administrationâs blueprint for reopening the economy and its effect on public health on WBURâs âOn Point.â
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KHNâs âWhat The Health?â: How Will We Reopen The Economy?
The politics of COVID-19 are pretty polarized, but health experts across the ideological spectrum agree: The U.S. will need more robust testing before itâs safe to relax social-distancing requirements. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump, Congress and the nationâs governors continue to spar over who should be responsible for what. Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider, Tami Luhby of CNN and Anna Edney of Bloomberg News join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, for extra credit, the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.
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Watch: Coronavirus And Your Health Care
KHN's Julie Rovner answers viewers' questions on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" about how the pandemic is affecting health policy as well as patients and their insurance.
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‘It’s Like Walking Into Chernobyl,’ One Doctor Says Of Her Emergency Room
Lack of protective gear and fears about all the unknown aspects of COVID-19 are parts of the mosaic of stress facing doctors and nurses on the front lines of the pandemic.
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KHNâs âWhat The Health?â: Who Will Pay For COVID-19 Care?
The spread of COVID-19 is prompting changes in pricing, coverage and other health care issues that have been subjects of political debate for years. But the politics remain polarized. Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, for extra credit, the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week that they think you should read, too.
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âAn Arm And A Legâ: Superheroes Of âStuffâ Help Health Workers In NYC
âAn Arm and a Legâ is back â sooner than we expected â with stories about how COVID-19 intersects with the cost of health care, and how we can all respond. So weâre calling it SEASON-19.
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Cancer Patients Face Treatment Delays And Uncertainty As Coronavirus Cripples Hospitals
As hospitals across the country are forced to delay or cancel certain medical procedures in response to the surge in patients with COVID-19, those hard choices are disrupting care for some people with serious illnesses.
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Long-Standing Racial And Income Disparities Seen Creeping Into COVID-19 Care
Many health officials around the nation have not released data on the ethnic and racial demographics of people tested for the new coronavirus. But public health experts said the anecdotes are adding up, and they fear the response to the pandemic will result in predictable health care disparities.
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As Coronavirus Spreads, Workers Could Lean On ACA Coverage Protection
KHNâs Julie Rovner discusses the role of the Affordable Care Act in helping to provide coverage to people affected by the virusâ economic repercussions.
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KHNâs âWhat The Health?â: All Coronavirus All The Time
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing changes to the U.S. health system that were previously unthinkable. Yet some fights â including over the Affordable Care Act and abortion â persist even in this time of national emergency. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHNâs Liz Szabo about the latest installment of KHN-NPRâs âBill of the Month.â
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âEssentialâ Or Not, These Workers Report For Duty
In Los Angeles County and beyond, people continue to toil through the coronavirus pandemic, often in positions that put them in constant contact with the public. Many are low-wage workers who canât afford to stop working.
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Her Genetic Test Revealed A Microscopic Problem â And A Jumbo Price Tag
Molecular diagnostics are at the frontier of science, but insurance and billing questions create a minefield for patients.
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Why Hoarding Of Hydroxychloroquine Needs To Stop
Six states â Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas â Â have taken steps to limit inappropriate prescriptions for the medicine and preserve supplies for patients who take it for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Photo Essay: LA Under Lockdown
Californians are under orders to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus â and the result is that some of Southern Californiaâs best-known spots are shuttered or deserted, from Santa Monica Pier to Olvera Street.
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Listen: The Reverberations of Gun Violence In Baltimore
KHNâs Chaseedaw Giles discusses her story about the West Baltimore barber who cares for his clients in life and death on Baltimoreâs news radio station, WBAL.
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Listen: The Hard-Knock Health Law Turns 10 Amid Pandemic
On the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, Kaiser Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner and Kaiser Family Foundation Executive Vice President Larry Levitt put the law in perspective.
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Listen: Front-Line Health Care Workers Face Shortage Of Protective Gear
As California ramps up capacity at hospitals in response to the coronavirus pandemic, health care workers face an inadequate supply of masks.
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Millions Of Older Americans Live In Counties With No ICU Beds As Pandemic Intensifies
A Kaiser Health News analysis shows that counties with ICUs average one ICU bed for every 1,300 older residents, those most at risk for needing hospitalization.