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Attorney General Xavier Becerra views his resounding Election Day win as a 鈥渃lear signal鈥 from voters to continue his work defending the Affordable Care Act and pushing back against the Trump administration.
When you learn you have a terminal illness, how do you live with purpose and authenticity?
Following the vote, nearly 500,000 uninsured adults in five states are poised to gain Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, say advocates. But many conservatives remain opposed to the expansion.
Democrats, who have a history of championing the Affordable Care Act and railing about drug prices, will now chair several house committees.
Even though they are taking control of the House, Democrats will be unlikely to advance many initiatives on health that don鈥檛 meet Republican approval since the GOP controls the Senate and the White House. But they can block any efforts to weaken the Affordable Care Act or change Medicaid or Medicare.
Even though Democrat Gavin Newsom campaigned for single-payer, it鈥檚 unlikely that he and other lawmakers will completely overhaul the state鈥檚 health care system right away. Instead, they will likely propose incremental steps to provide more Californians with health insurance.
An 鈥渆pidemic鈥 of robocalls timed to open-enrollment season are largely illegal, fraudulent or aim to rope you into insurance you don鈥檛 need or can鈥檛 use. They’re also really annoying.
KHN’s news analysis on “Medicare-for-all” sparks a broader conversation.
Voters in Oregon and Washington will decide whether to strip cities of the ability to tax sugary drinks.
A ballot initiative in Montana would tax cigarettes $2 a pack to help pay for the state鈥檚 Medicaid expansion. But the tobacco industry has spent more than $17 million fighting the effort.
As politicians across the country toss about such health care catchphrases, sometimes interchangeably, many voters say they鈥檙e 鈥渏ust confused.鈥
One of the most popular electronic health records software systems used by hospitals, Epic Systems,聽can delete records or require cumbersome workarounds when clocks are set back for an hour, prompting many hospitals to opt for paper records for part of the night shift.
Both sides in the contentious and expensive battle over California鈥檚 Proposition 8 are cherry-picking the facts ahead of Tuesday鈥檚 vote as dialysis companies spend record amounts to persuade voters through ads.
A number of health issues 鈥 from preexisting conditions to Medicaid expansion to changes to Medicare 鈥 could be at stake when voters head to the polls Tuesday.
Critics worry the marketing of Vascepa, a purified fish oil product, could prove a fish story.
In this episode of KHN鈥檚 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Joanne Kenen of Politico discuss the start of open enrollment for individual health insurance plans for 2019 and preview what next week鈥檚 midterm elections might mean for health policy. Plus, Barbara Feder Ostrov of KHN and California Healthline talks to Julie about the latest NPR-KHN 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 feature.
The money was paid on behalf of more than 400,000 people who may have been ineligible for the public program, a state audit found. One had been dead for four years before payments stopped.
Medical treatments targeting the DNA in tumor cells are celebrated, but insurers often won鈥檛 cover the skyrocketing cost.
Restrictive lists of doctors and hospitals expose people to larger out-of-pocket costs, but trend appears to be slowing.
Standards have been proposed to address what are often viewed as disparities in treatment, but the Trump administration has declined to enforce them.
