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Need to know more about âMedicare for All?â Itâs a top issue in the Democratic presidential primary campaign. This holiday week, we are rerunning our explainer on the subject. But first, KHNâs âWhat the Health?â host Julie Rovner talks to KHNâs Shefali Luthra about how health played out in the first Democratic candidate debates last week.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
A draft plan spearheaded by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would allow the federal government for the first time to negotiate prices for 250 drugs for Medicare and apply those prices to all payers, including employers and insurers.
Colorado, Florida and Vermont â with the support of President Donald Trump â are exploring plans to bring drugs across the border from Canada to help lower costs.
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 KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss this, plus the latest in news about bipartisan progress on catch-all legislation to address âsurpriseâ medical bills. Plus, Rovner interviews NPRâs Jon Hamilton about the latest KHN-NPR âBill of the Monthâ installment.
On the first of the Democratâs 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 â and the negotiations that go on between them are trade secrets.
Thereâs a lack of confidence in the number.
President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to help consumers benefit from gaining fuller estimates about their health care costs. But whether it will be a game changer depends on the details.
How big an issue will health really be in the 2020 election? Will the Republicans find their political footing on the issue? In this episode of KHNâs âWhat the Health?â Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times report from the Aspen Ideas: Health festival in Aspen, Colo. Joining them are Chris Jennings, who advised Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama on health policy, and Lanhee Chen, who advised GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
As the 2020 campaign season kicks off, both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden say theyâll cure cancer. If only it were that simple.
Regenexx, which runs a string of clinics, says stem cell injections can save employers a lot of money, but critics say thereâs no proof.
On average, 16% of inpatient stays and 18% of emergency visits left a patient with at least one out-of-network charge, most of those came from doctors offering treatment at the hospital, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A legislative package from Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) would handle surprise medical bills by having insurers pay them the âmedian in-network rate,â meaning the rate would be similar to what the plan charges other doctors in the area for the same procedure.
Doctors routinely order MRIs, but the price patients pay can be unpredictable. Hear how one determined woman scanned her options to find the best deal.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is scheduled next week to mark up a massive legislative package on curbing health costs, but some of the details remain unresolved, including what 51ÊÓÆ” to use to pay doctors and hospitals involved in surprise medical bills.
A new state law says hospitals and insurers will have to work it out among themselves when they canât agree on a price -- instead of sending huge bills to patients. âBill of the Monthâ patient Drew Calver galvanized attention on the issue after he told his story to KHN, NPR and "CBS This Morning."
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