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President Donald Trump says the country has seen a peak in new cases, but that doesnât mean the end of the pandemic, experts say. Buckle in â we could be social distancing into 2022.
The former president's statement highlights a clear difference of opinion that will likely come up often on the campaign trail.
Despite intense lobbying for a piece of the $100 billion bailout pot, big New York hospitals and rural systems alike say they arenât getting a fair share.
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.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
As part of the federal response to the coronavirus crisis, Medicare is offering to give hospitals and doctors accelerated payments.
KHNâs Julie Rovner examines what health care issues the administration might encounter if President Donald Trump wins in November.
As states scour the world for masks and other protective medical equipment, the federal government has repeatedly invoked a little-known clause in the Defense Production Act to step to the front of the line for sought-after health supplies.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Travel restrictions came after the coronavirus had reached the U.S.
Under pressure, the federal government announced it will let surgery centers, hotels and even college dorms serve as hospitals to treat an overflow of patients.
As President Donald Trump called the nation âin good shapeâ to handle COVID-19, a cache of emails released by officials in Washington state show that top public health authorities feared gear shortages and doctor safety in the early epicenter of sickness and deaths.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
The legislation scheduled to go before the House for a vote Friday provides nearly $200 billion in aid for hospitals. That includes payments for expenses or lost revenues from the coronavirus pandemic, interest-free loans and changes in Medicare reimbursements.
Many of the nationâs safety-net clinics for low-income patients are having to turn their model of care upside down overnight to deal with the realities of the pandemic â a challenge both financially and logistically. Federal funding is on the way.
The presidentâs statement frames the data in a way that doesnât accurately represent the status of the American response to COVID-19.
As the coronavirus sweeps the nation, a new survey reveals widespread medical gear shortages while hospitals give up on a fractured supply chain and take matters into their own hands with planes sprinting past cargo ships.
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.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Public health professionals dismissed the presidentâs claims that the spread of the coronavirus, in particular, and the threat of a pandemic, in general, snuck up on us as being âsimply astonishingâ and âsimply untrue.â
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