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The legislation scheduled to go before the House for a vote Friday provides nearly $200 billion in aid for hospitals. That includes payments for expenses or lost revenues from the coronavirus pandemic, interest-free loans and changes in Medicare reimbursements.
Many of the nations safety-net clinics for low-income patients are having to turn their model of care upside down overnight to deal with the realities of the pandemic a challenge both financially and logistically. Federal funding is on the way.
The presidents statement frames the data in a way that doesnt accurately represent the status of the American response to COVID-19.
As the coronavirus sweeps the nation, a new survey reveals widespread medical gear shortages while hospitals give up on a fractured supply chain and take matters into their own hands with planes sprinting past cargo ships.
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.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Public health professionals dismissed the presidents claims that the spread of the coronavirus, in particular, and the threat of a pandemic, in general, snuck up on us as being simply astonishing and simply untrue.
Just 5 miles from Mar-a-Lago, the POTUS outpost, Florida residents find that the presidents pledge to make testing accessible hasnt materialized.
Bidens statement leaves out context about how countries decided on which test theyd use to identify the presence of the coronavirus.
The ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and Californias Democratic leaders is costing the Golden State hundreds of millions of health care dollars with billions more at stake.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
There are important distinctions between how insurance companies will cover the test and the treatment. This makes the presidents statement an exaggeration, at best.
The rapidly spreading coronavirus has led to the cancellation of sporting events, conferences and travel, with Congress and President Donald Trump scrambling to catch up to the spiraling public health crisis. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has issued long-awaited rules aimed at making it easier for patients to carry copies of their medical records. Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post and Kimberly Leonard of Business Insider join KHNs Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, for extra credit, the panelists suggest their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read, too.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
A Colorado lawmaker giving birth near the start of the states four-month legislative session highlighted the lack of comprehensive paid family leave. Yet a bill to add a statewide system that once seemed a sure thing is getting bogged down.
The wide field of Democrats vying to face President Donald Trump in the fall has been reduced to two major candidates, former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, each with a different prescription for the health system. Meanwhile, Congress and the Trump administration scramble to address the spread of the novel coronavirus. And the Supreme Court agrees to consider the latest case against the Affordable Care Act. Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner, Tami Luhby of CNN and Emmarie Huetteman of Kaiser Health News join KHNs Julie Rovner to discuss this and more.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
This claim wouldnt pass muster in a first-year statistics class.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
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