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Under the federal COBRA law, people who lose health coverage because of a layoff or a reduction in their hours generally have 60 days to decide whether to pay to maintain that coverage. But under new regulations, the clock wonât start ticking until the government says the coronavirus national emergency is over, and then consumers will have 120 days to act.
The National Cancer Institute plans to launch a multisite study next year involving roughly 5,000 women to assess whether self-sampling at home for the human papillomavirus that causes cervical cancer is comparable to screening in a doctorâs office.
KHN executive editor Damon Darlin wades through mounds of health care policy stories â so you donât have to.
KHNâs Julie Rovner discusses the role of the Affordable Care Act in helping to provide coverage to people affected by the virusâ economic repercussions.
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing changes to the U.S. health system that were previously unthinkable. Yet some fights â including over the Affordable Care Act and abortion â persist even in this time of national emergency. Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHNâs Julie Rovner to discuss this and more. Also, Rovner interviews KHNâs Liz Szabo about the latest installment of KHN-NPRâs âBill of the Month.â
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.
Next week is the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. Millions of Americans have benefited from the law, yet its future is in the hands of both the Supreme Court and voters in November. For this special episode of âWhat the Health?â host Julie Rovner interviews Kathleen Sebelius, who was Obamaâs secretary of Health and Human Services when the law was passed. Then Rovner, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News discuss its history, impact and prospects for the future.
On KHNâs âWhat the Health? â podcast, the former secretary of Health and Human Services says she continued to believe during the debate 10 years ago on the health law that it would eventually gain some Republican support. But that never happened.
The bold move by the giant hospital system will help thousands of patients in the wake of a Kaiser Health News investigation last year.
In Californiaâs rural Central Valley, low-income children have limited access to vision care. School districts are teaming up with nonprofits to fill the gaps.
This claim âwouldnât pass musterâ in a first-year statistics class.
Until very recently, the separate company that runs the emergency department at Nashville General Hospital in Tennessee was continuing to haul patients who couldn't pay medical bills into court.
Surprise bills are just the latest weapons in a decades-long war among health care industry players over who gets to keep the fortunes generated each year from patient illness: $3.6 trillion in 2018. The practice is an outrage, yet no one in the health care sector wants to unilaterally make the type of big concessions that would change things.
Although a new state tax penalty and state financial aid motivated people to sign up for health insurance this year, Covered California is reopening enrollment for those who said they werenât aware of them.
KHNâs Shefali Luthra examines the presidentâs talking points on a range of topics â from insurance coverage, access to care and affordability issues to preexisting condition protections and prescription drug costs.
A high-profile commission created by Gov. Gavin Newsom will convene for the first time Monday to discuss how to get every Californian covered. But don't expect the state to adopt a single-payer system anytime soon.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg uses health care as a key message in his Democratic presidential primary run. Now that he will be taking the stage in the Feb. 19 debate, the message could take on even more prominence.
The impact of the Trump administrationâs health policies is not as clear-cut as the presidentâs reelection campaign suggests.
Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, sat down for a rare interview with KHN senior correspondent Sarah Varney. They discuss her views on President Donald Trumpâs plan for sustaining public health insurance programs, how the administration would respond if Obamacare is struck down by the courts in the future and her thoughts on how the latest "Medicare for All" proposals would affect innovation and access to care.
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