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More than 10% of residents in 12 California counties don鈥檛 have safe drinking water, according to a California Healthline analysis of state water data. State lawmakers have pledged $130 million a year to help bring clean drinking water to Californians who need it.
Colorado, Florida and Vermont 鈥 with the support of President Donald Trump 鈥 are exploring plans to bring drugs across the border from Canada to help lower costs.
Though the candidates tended to agree on the end goal of universal coverage, differences emerged over how to get there.聽
Despite what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio claimed during the first night of the presidential debates, universal health care in the Big Apple is still in the seeding stage.
At the first Democratic presidential primary debate, former U.S. lawmaker John Delaney outlined his opposition to 鈥淢edicare for All鈥 by claiming it would prove fatal for hospitals. It鈥檚 really not that simple.
Democratic presidential candidates disagreed on how to fix health care in their first debate Wednesday, although they all called for boosting insurance coverage and lowering prices. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is keeping health care in the news, too, with a new plan to make medical prices more available to the public. Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call and Anna Edney of Bloomberg News join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss this, plus the latest in news about bipartisan progress on catch-all legislation to address 鈥渟urprise鈥 medical bills. Plus, Rovner interviews NPR鈥檚 Jon Hamilton about the latest KHN-NPR 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 installment.
Independent black-owned pharmacies fill a void for African American patients looking for care that鈥檚 sensitive to their heritage, beliefs and values.
Experts credit the lowest U.S. unemployment rate in 50 years, along with a more flexible work culture and tighter oversight of who qualifies for federal disability benefits.聽
The Food and Drug Administration released two decades of previously hidden data containing millions of injuries or malfunctions by medical devices. Here鈥檚 what we鈥檝e learned so far.
Doctors should assess older adults for the risk of falling, come up with individualized plans and refer seniors to physical therapists, occupational therapists and evidence-based programs.
On the first of the Democrat鈥檚 two-night debate, only New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren offered full support for a single-payer system that would banish private health insurance.
The measure also includes a range of provisions designed to address health care costs.
Beware at the pharmacy counter: Your insurance company could be in cahoots with a pharmacy benefit manager 鈥 and the negotiations that go on between them are trade secrets.
So far in 2019, nine states have passed laws to outlaw abortion or forbid it past a certain point in pregnancy. None of these laws are in effect, and many are being litigated in the courts.
Guess who鈥檚 back grabbing headlines? Pharmacy benefit managers 鈥 those companies that serve as middlemen in the prescription drug pipeline.
The nation’s biggest producer of e-cigarettes is based in San Francisco, yet the city is on the verge of banning sales of the devices.
Julie Rovner, the chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News, joins Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Alan Weil of Health Affairs at the Aspen Ideas: Health festival to discuss how consumers鈥 values impact the politics surrounding the national debate on health care.
Running counter to the efforts of suicide prevention experts and many religious and social norms, some seniors are quietly exploring the option of turning to suicide when they feel they’ve lived long enough.
There鈥檚 a lack of confidence in the number.
California lawmakers spent big on Medi-Cal in the 2019-20 state budget, voting to cover more older residents and people with disabilities, restore benefits cut during the recession and open the program to eligible young adults who are in the country illegally.聽
