End of internet subsidies for low-income households threatens telehealth access
by Sarah Jane Tribble KFF Health News For Cindy Westman, $30 buys a week’s worth of gas to drive to medical appointments and run errands. It’s also how much she…
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Heat protections for California workers are in limbo after Newsom abandons rules
by Angela Hart and Samantha Young KFF Health News SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has abandoned proposed protections for millions of California workers toiling in sweltering warehouses, steamy…
End of internet subsidies for low-income households threatens telehealth access
by Sarah Jane Tribble KFF Health News For Cindy Westman, $30 buys a week’s worth of gas to drive to medical appointments and run errands. It’s also how much she…
Your doctor or your insurer? Little-known rules may ease the choice in Medicare Advantage
Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that this year they could keep either their private, Medicare Advantage…
Four years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists
From spring break parties to Mardi Gras, many people remember the last major “normal” thing they did before the novel coronavirus pandemic dawned, forcing governments worldwide to issue stay-at-home advisories…
Your doctor or your insurer? Little-known rules may ease the choice in Medicare advantage
by Susan Jaffe KFF Health News BART Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that this year they could…
Move to protect CA’s indoor workers from heat upended by cost questions
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration unexpectedly yanked its support from a sweeping proposal that would have protected millions of California’s indoor workers from dangerous heat, saying it can’t endorse…
COVID and Medicare payments spark remote patient monitoring boom
by Phil Galewitz and Holly K. Hacker KFF Health News Billy Abbott, a retired Army medic, wakes at 6 every morning, steps on the bathroom scale, and uses a cuff…
Concerns grow over quality of care as investor groups buy not-for-profit nursing homes
by Harris Meyer KFF Health News Shelly Olson’s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years. At…
How the anti-vaccine movement pits parental rights against public health
by Amy Maxmen KFF Health News Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a doctor — kids so…
California attorney general boosts bill banning medical debt from credit reports
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday, March 11 that he is throwing his weight behind legislation to bar medical debt from showing up on consumer credit reports, a Democratic-led…
California pushes to expand the universe of abortion care providers
by Laurie Udesky KFF Health News California’s efforts to expand access to abortion care are enabling more types of medical practitioners to perform certain abortion procedures — potentially a boon…
California attorney general boosts bill banning medical debt from credit reports
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday, March 11 that he is throwing his weight behind legislation to bar medical debt from showing up on consumer credit reports, a Democratic-led…
Biden said State of the Union is strong and made clear his campaign is off and running
President Joe Biden touted his administration’s accomplishments in health care in a wide-ranging State of the Union address on Thursday evening that touched on subjects such as immigration, the economy,…
America worries about health costs — and voters want to hear from Biden and Republicans
President Joe Biden is counting on outrage over abortion restrictions to help drive turnout for his reelection. Former President Donald Trump is promising to take another swing at repealing Obamacare….
California Gov. Newsom wants voters to approve billions more to help the homeless. Will it help?
SACRAMENTO — California voters will decide March 5 whether to pump billions more dollars into combating the nation’s worst homelessness crisis, an investment Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom argues will finally…
Health care workers push for their own confidential mental health treatment
by Katheryn Houghton KFF Health News States are redefining when medical professionals can get mental health treatment without risking notifying the boards that regulate their licenses. Too often, health care…
The powerful constraints on medical care in Catholic hospitals across America
Nurse midwife Beverly Maldonado recalls a pregnant woman arriving at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Maryland after her water broke. It was weeks before the baby would have any chance…
New eligibility rules are a financial salve for nearly 2 million on Medi-Cal
Millions of Medi-Cal beneficiaries can now save for a rainy day, keep an inheritance, or hold on to a modest nest egg, without losing coverage, thanks to an eligibility change…
GoFundMe has become a health care utility
by Elisabeth Rosenthal KFF Health News GoFundMe started as a crowdfunding site for underwriting “ideas and dreams,” and, as GoFundMe’s co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, once put it, “for…
Halfway through ‘unwinding,’ Medicaid enrollment is down about 10 million
Halfway through what will be the biggest purge of Medicaid beneficiaries in a one-year span, enrollment in the government-run health insurance program is on track to return to roughly pre-pandemic…
Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and…
How fringe anti-science views infiltrated mainstream politics — and what it means in 2024
by Amy Maxmen KFF Health News Rates of routine childhood vaccination hit a 10-year low in 2023. That, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, puts about 250,000 kindergartners at…
Where are the nation’s primary care providers? It’s not an easy answer
Clinicians at Valley-Wide Health Systems never know who will appear at their clinic in San Luis, a town of about 600 people in southern Colorado. “If someone’s in labor, they’ll…
‘No patent, no right’: UP lawyer highlights scientists’ need to protect inventions
by Harvey L. Sapigao IN the ’90s, Dr. Neila Cortes-Maramba of UP Manila led a team of scientists investigating ten medicinal plants in the Philippines. Two of these plants exhibited…
What’s indoor air quality like in long-term care facilities during wildfires? Worse than you’d think.
by Kylie Mohr KFF Health News Every year, wildfires across the western U.S. and Canada send plumes of smoke into the sky. When that smoke blows into southwestern Idaho’s Treasure…
Women and minorities bear the brunt of medical misdiagnosis
by Liz Szabo KFF Health News Charity Watkins sensed something was deeply wrong when she experienced exhaustion after her daughter was born. At times, Watkins, then 30, had to stop…
MEDICAL MISSION IN NUEVA ECIJA
Munoz (The Science City) Mayor “Baby” Armi L. Alvarez (seated, 3rd from left, in light blue shirt) poses with the members of the Philippine-American Association of Nevada medical mission team, headed by Daniel C….
What would a second Trump presidency look like for health care?
by Julie Rovner KFF Health News On the presidential campaign trail, former President Donald Trump is, once again, promising to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — a nebulous…
Delicate labor-industry deal in flux as Newsom revisits $25 minimum health wage
by Don Thompson Kaiser Health News SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom is revisiting California’s phase-in of a nation-leading $25 minimum wage for health workers in the face of a projected…