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Marilyn Bartlett, credited with saving Montana鈥檚 state employee health plan millions of dollars, is a busy consultant now, as states, counties and big businesses try to use her playbook to bring down hospital costs.
Environmentalists say gas appliances spew greenhouse gases and exacerbate asthma. Restaurant owners and chefs say you can鈥檛 cook food properly with electricity.
Louisiana鈥檚 St. James Parish Hospital thought the vaccine would mean the end of its long covid fight. Then the ICU beds surrounding them ran out.
The pandemic and economic crisis give states new incentives to extend health coverage to their uninsured residents.
The academics insist that more workers should get top-rated N95 masks, the best defense against airborne coronavirus particles.
Tens of thousands of middle-aged sons and daughters 鈥 too young to qualify for a vaccine 鈥 care for older relatives with serious ailments and want to get the shots to protect their loved ones and themselves.
Inoculating the millions of undocumented workers who produce America鈥檚 agricultural bounty will be key to achieving herd immunity against covid-19. But garnering the trust of these workers is proving complicated, particularly in the South, where the last four years have been marked by workplace raids and anti-immigrant vitriol.
On Monday, the federal insurance exchange reopened for an unusual midyear special enrollment period. People who are uninsured can buy a plan, and those who want to change their marketplace coverage can do so. Here are some answers about how it works.
A strike team of nurses and others is vaccinating Contra Costa County鈥檚 hardest-hit populations right where they live.
Industry experts say it鈥檚 highly unlikely that dozens of pharmaceutical companies that aren鈥檛 already producing covid vaccines stand ready to do so.
A video on the social media platform TikTok explains how consumers can 鈥渃rush鈥 their hospital bills using charity care policies. This won鈥檛 work for all medical bills, but it might be a good place to start.
While South Dakota is excelling in vaccine distribution and in keeping its economy intact, some health measures show the state is also dealing with one of the highest per capita covid death rates in the country.
Tweeters lit up our timeline in recent days with Health Policy Valentines about a variety of health topics. Here are some of our favorites.
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities are more likely to have medical conditions that make covid especially dangerous. But a lack of federal tracking means no one knows how many people in disability group housing have fallen ill or died from the virus.
The measures would impose taxes on increases in the price of drugs that don鈥檛 reflect improved clinical value and set the rates paid by state-run and commercial health plans to a benchmark based on prices in Canada.
Authorities seized 1.7 million fake masks in New York and U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell called for a national probe.
Even while the Senate is busy with Donald Trump鈥檚 impeachment trial, the House has gotten down to work on a covid relief bill using the budget reconciliation process. Meanwhile, the watchword for covid this week among the public is confusion 鈥 over masks, vaccines and just about everything else science-related. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, the panelists recommend their favorite 鈥渉ealth policy valentines鈥 along with their favorite health policy stories they think you should read, too.
Community health clinics are key to getting more Black and Hispanic Americans vaccinated, federal officials say. In Nashville, a vaccination push at federally funded clinics is underway.
Lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing bills to restrict transgender kids from participating in sports and ban doctors from treating them.
