For Those With Developmental Disabilities, Dental Needs Are Great, Good Care Elusive
Lack of access means that people with physical and cognitive disabilities have a heavier burden of dental disease.
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Podcast: KHNâs âWhat The Health?â Bye-Bye, ACA, And Hello âMedicare-For-Allâ?
Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Erin Mershon of Stat News join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss the latest in news about the Trump administrationâs effort to overturn the Affordable Care Act, a historic hearing on âMedicare-for-allâ and the Kansas Supreme Courtâs ruling that the state constitution protects a womanâs right to abortion. Also, Rovner interviews KHNâs Carmen Heredia Rodriguez about the latest âBill of the Monthâ feature.
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CBOâs Report On Single-Payer Health Care Holds More Questions Than Answers
The Congressional Budget Office report does clearly communicate that shifting to this type of health system would be a complicated process.
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A Big Hearing For âMedicare-For-Allâ â In A Small Room
In an unusual move, the House Rules Committee, instead of one of the panels that typically oversee health policy, held the first House hearing in a decade about converting the U.S. to a government-financed health care system.
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Summer Bummer: A Young Camperâs $142,938 Snakebite
The snake struck a 9-year-old hiker at dusk on a nature trail. The outrageous bills struck her parents a few weeks later.
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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
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Association Insurance Pushes On Despite Court Ruling
Judge cited an attempted âend-runâ around the Affordable Care Act in rejecting large chunks of a new rule expanding access to such plans for small businesses and single proprietors.
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Pain Clinics’ Doctors Needlessly Tested Hundreds Of Urine Samples, Court Records Show
Whistleblower lawsuits accuse Tennessee chain of bilking millions from Medicare for unnecessary urine drug tests.
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Podcast: KHNâs âWhat The Health?â The Abortion Wars Rage On
Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss the latest news about womenâs reproductive health policy and the latest skirmish in the debate over âMedicare-for-allâ: how hospitals should be paid.
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Americans Overwhelmingly Want Federal Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills
Three-quarters of people urge action to keep patients from facing high medical costs when their insurance doesnât cover the care, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll.
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Cancer Is Especially Dangerous For Immigrants In South Texas. Here’s Why.
When an undocumented immigrant in a Texas border county gets a cancer diagnosis, it can be a death sentence because of a lack of public hospitals.
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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you donât have to.
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Podcast: KHNâs âWhat The Health?â You Have Questions, We Have Answers
Jennifer Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner join KHNâs Julie Rovner to answer listener questions about the fate of the Affordable Care Act, âMedicare-for-allâ and how to talk about health care costs. Also, for extra credit, the panelists offer their favorite âextra creditâ stories of the week.
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Hickenlooper Expanded Medicaid, Created State-Run Marketplace To Insure Nearly All Coloradans
We wondered how Coloradoâs uninsured rate changed during John Hickenlooperâs time in the governorâs mansion and how it compares with the rest of the country.
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Watch: ACAâs Future And âMedicare-For-Allâ Front And Center As Candidates Line Up For 2020
Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News talks about the court case challenging the Affordable Care Act and Democratic proposals to expand Medicare on C-SPAN and NPR.
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Watch: Sanders Re-Ups âMedicare-For-All,â Gets More Mileage On Campaign Trail
The plan by Sanders has drawn a lot of attention on the campaign trail and Capitol Hill. Â
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Podcast: KHNâs âWhat The Health?â Still More âMedicare-For-Allâ
Sarah Kliff of Vox.com, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss the latest version of a âMedicare-for-allâ bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a presidential hopeful, and Democratic and Republican reactions to it. They also discuss the latest on congressional efforts to rein in drug prices and another state effort to expand Medicaid â but not exactly in the way voters wanted. Also, Rovner interviews Ceci Connolly of the Alliance of Community Health Plans.
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As Sanders Officially Revives Medicare-For-All, Plan B For Democrats Gains Traction
âMedicare for Americaâ seeks to avoid some of the predictable obstacles of a full-blown expansion of Medicare. Can it survive the politics of health reform?
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Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you donât have to.
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CMS Ignores Federal Judge Ruling To Approve Medicaid Work Rules in Utah
Work helps make people healthier, CMS chief Seema Verma said in approving Utahâs waiver request to tie government health benefits to employment or volunteer work. But Judge James Boasberg has said that isnât the goal of Medicaid.