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Enrollment among undocumented immigrant children in Californiaâs Medicaid program started strong before stagnating and then falling. Although this decline is similar to an enrollment decline among all children in Medicaid nationwide, experts believe there are different reasons behind it.
Only 41.5% of internal medicine positions were filled by U.S.-trained fourth-year students getting traditional medical degrees, the lowest share on record. Similar trends were seen this year in family medicine and pediatrics.
Need to know more about âMedicare for All?â Itâs a top issue in the Democratic presidential primary campaign. This holiday week, we are rerunning our explainer on the subject. But first, KHNâs âWhat the Health?â host Julie Rovner talks to KHNâs Shefali Luthra about how health played out in the first Democratic candidate debates last week.
More than 10% of residents in 12 California counties donât have safe drinking water, according to a California Healthline analysis of state water data. State lawmakers have pledged $130 million a year to help bring clean drinking water to Californians who need it.
Democratic presidential candidates disagreed on how to fix health care in their first debate Wednesday, although they all called for boosting insurance coverage and lowering prices. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is keeping health care in the news, too, with a new plan to make medical prices more available to the public. Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call and Anna Edney of Bloomberg News join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss this, plus the latest in news about bipartisan progress on catch-all legislation to address âsurpriseâ medical bills. Plus, Rovner interviews NPRâs Jon Hamilton about the latest KHN-NPR âBill of the Monthâ installment.
Experts credit the lowest U.S. unemployment rate in 50 years, along with a more flexible work culture and tighter oversight of who qualifies for federal disability benefits.Â
Beware at the pharmacy counter: Your insurance company could be in cahoots with a pharmacy benefit manager â and the negotiations that go on between them are trade secrets.
Guess whoâs back grabbing headlines? Pharmacy benefit managers â those companies that serve as middlemen in the prescription drug pipeline.
Julie Rovner, the chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News, joins Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Alan Weil of Health Affairs at the Aspen Ideas: Health festival to discuss how consumersâ values impact the politics surrounding the national debate on health care.
How big an issue will health really be in the 2020 election? Will the Republicans find their political footing on the issue? In this episode of KHNâs âWhat the Health?â Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times report from the Aspen Ideas: Health festival in Aspen, Colo. Joining them are Chris Jennings, who advised Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama on health policy, and Lanhee Chen, who advised GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio.
Hundreds of protesters descended on the state Capitol on Thursday, warning against government tyranny and corporate greed. Their target: not taxes, not high-tech surveillance, but a bill that would determine which kids must get their routine shots.
A new data analysis by KHN and Johns Hopkins researchers shows that even as the CDC issued warnings, surgeons handed out many times the number of opioid pills needed for post-op pain.
Doctors routinely order MRIs, but the price patients pay can be unpredictable. Hear how one determined woman scanned her options to find the best deal.
A new state law says hospitals and insurers will have to work it out among themselves when they canât agree on a price -- instead of sending huge bills to patients. âBill of the Monthâ patient Drew Calver galvanized attention on the issue after he told his story to KHN, NPR and "CBS This Morning."
The federal government has doled out at least $2.4 billion in state grants since 2017 to address the opioid epidemic, which killed 47,600 people in the U.S. that year alone. But local officials note that drug abuse problems seldom involve only one substance.
Lawmakers and patients want to eliminate âsurpriseâ out-of-network medical bills. Hospitals, doctors and insurers say they want to eliminate them, too, but their opposition to one anotherâs proposals could complicate legislative efforts. Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico and Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss this, plus the latest in news about reproductive health and health care sharing ministries.
An unexpected hospital bill can bust the family budget. That leaves lots of people with bills they canât pay. Turns out, thatâs a crisis for hospitals too, and some are getting creative about collecting debt.
Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss the Trump administrationâs efforts to curtail federally funded research using fetal tissue, the backlash from former Vice President Joe Bidenâs support for the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment and how health policy intersects with both trade and immigration policy.
People who buy insurance on their own may have little notice when something goes amiss. Itâs a quirk in health policy at the heart of the next episode of âAn Arm and a Legâ podcast.
Health care â and how much it costs â is scary. But you're not alone with this stuff, and knowledge is power. "An Arm and a Leg" is a podcast about these issues, and its second season is co-produced by KHN.
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