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鈥楶ennie鈥-Pinching States Take Over Obamacare Exchanges From Feds
Pennsylvania and New Jersey are leaving the federal marketplace this fall to save money and will start their own insurance exchanges. Kentucky, New Mexico, Virginia and Maine are looking to join them in 2021 or beyond.
In Texas, More People Are Losing Their Health Insurance as COVID Cases Climb
During the pandemic, nearly 700,000 additional Texans have lost health insurance. The Lone Star State already had more uninsured people than any other. It has given people with COVID symptoms pause before seeking medical care.
Administration Eases Rules to Give Laid-Off Workers More Time to Sign Up for COBRA
Under the federal COBRA law, people who lose health coverage because of a layoff or a reduction in their hours generally have 60 days to decide whether to pay to maintain that coverage. But under new regulations, the clock won鈥檛 start ticking until the government says the coronavirus national emergency is over, and then consumers will have 120 days to act.
Pruebas para el VPH y el c谩ncer cervical podr铆an hacerse en casa
El Instituto Nacional del C谩ncer lanzar谩 un estudio que involucrar谩 a unas 5,000 mujeres para evaluar si la autoprueba casera puede equivaler a la que realiza el m茅dico en un consultorio.
NIH Spearheads Study To Test At-Home Screening For HPV And Cervical Cancer
The National Cancer Institute plans to launch a multisite study next year involving roughly 5,000 women to assess whether self-sampling at home for the human papillomavirus that causes cervical cancer is comparable to screening in a doctor鈥檚 office.
KHN executive editor Damon Darlin wades through mounds of health care policy stories 鈥 so you don鈥檛 have to.
As Coronavirus Spreads, Workers Could Lean On ACA Coverage Protection
KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner discusses the role of the Affordable Care Act in helping to provide coverage to people affected by the virus鈥 economic repercussions.
KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥: 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 鈥 including over the Affordable Care Act and abortion 鈥 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 KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHN鈥檚 Liz Szabo about the latest installment of KHN-NPR鈥檚 鈥淏ill of the Month.鈥
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.
KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat The Health?鈥: The Affordable Care Act Turns 10
Next week is the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. Millions of Americans have benefited from the law, yet its future is in the hands of both the Supreme Court and voters in November. For this special episode of 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 host Julie Rovner interviews Kathleen Sebelius, who was Obama鈥檚 secretary of Health and Human Services when the law was passed. Then Rovner, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News discuss its history, impact and prospects for the future.
Sebelius, Looking Back At ACA, Says The Country鈥檚 Never 鈥楽een This Kind Of Battle鈥
On KHN鈥檚 鈥淲hat the Health? 鈥 podcast, the former secretary of Health and Human Services says she continued to believe during the debate 10 years ago on the health law that it would eventually gain some Republican support. But that never happened.
VCU Health Halts 30-Year Campaign That Seized Patients鈥 Wages, Put Liens On Homes
The bold move by the giant hospital system will help thousands of patients in the wake of a Kaiser Health News investigation last year.
Tarea del d铆a: deletrear y ponerse los anteojos
Al menos el 20% de los ni帽os en edad escolar en los Estados Unidos tienen problemas de visi贸n. Pero seg煤n los CDC, menos del 15% tiene un examen de la vista antes de empezar el jard铆n.
Your School Assignment For The Day: Spelling And Specs
In California鈥檚 rural Central Valley, low-income children have limited access to vision care. School districts are teaming up with nonprofits to fill the gaps.
Trump鈥檚 Medicaid Chief Labels Medicaid 鈥楳ediocre.鈥 Is It?
This claim 鈥榳ouldn鈥檛 pass muster鈥 in a first-year statistics class.
It’s Not Just Hospitals That Sue Patients Who Can’t Pay
Until very recently, the separate company that runs the emergency department at Nashville General Hospital in Tennessee was continuing to haul patients who couldn’t pay medical bills into court.
Analysis: Who Profits From Steep Medical Bills? The People Tasked With Fixing Them.
Surprise bills are just the latest weapons in a decades-long war among health care industry players over who gets to keep聽the fortunes generated each year from patient illness: $3.6 trillion聽in 2018. The practice is an outrage, yet no one in the health care sector wants to unilaterally make the type of big concessions that would change things.
Surge In Enrollment As Californians Avoid Penalty, Receive State Aid
Although a new state tax penalty and state financial aid motivated people to sign up for health insurance this year, Covered California is reopening enrollment for those who said they weren鈥檛 aware of them.
Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Happy Friday! In news that is technically really good and exciting but is also kind of icky: yarn made from human skin could eventually be used to stitch up surgical wounds as a way to cut down on detrimental reactions from patients. As CNN reports, “The researchers say their ‘human textile,’ which they developed from […]
Watch: Let鈥檚 Talk About Trump鈥檚 Health Care Policies
KHN鈥檚 Shefali Luthra examines the president鈥檚 talking points on a range of topics 鈥 from insurance coverage, access to care and affordability issues to preexisting condition protections and prescription drug costs.
