DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-11-01 Start Shopping: Enrollment Begins Nov. 1 for Most Obamacare Insurance Plans Julie Appleby, KFF Health News For millions of Americans who buy their own health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, the end of the year brings a day of reckoning: It’s time to compare benefits and prices and change to […]
2023-10-31 Smaller Employers Weigh a Big-Company Fix for Scarce Primary Care: Their Own Clinics Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News With his company’s health costs soaring and his workers struggling with high blood pressure and other medical conditions, Winston Griffin, CEO of Laurel Grocery Co., knew his company had to do something. So the […]
2023-10-29 California Expands Paid Sick Days and Boosts Health Worker Wages Don Thompson SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California continues to burnish its reputation as a progressive state for health policy as Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills expanding paid sick leave, adding bereavement leave for miscarriages, and boosting wages for health workers. Newsom blessed a […]
2023-10-28 Residents of a Rural Arkansas County Grapple With Endemic Gun Violence Renuka Rayasam ELAINE, Ark. — On a recent September afternoon, Courtney Porter counted his losses: his mom from old age, his wife from diabetes complications, two of his brothers. While one died of an aneurysm, the shooting death last year of […]
Global Obesity Rates Soar: A Looming Health Crisis Demands Action Editorial Team 2023-10-27 In a world grappling with a growing health crisis, the global prevalence of obesity continues to rise, causing widespread concern among health professionals and policymakers. Today, we examine the challenges, root causes, and potential solutions to this burgeoning […]
2023-10-26 Millions of Rural Americans Rely on Private Wells. Few Regularly Test Their Water. Tony Leys FORT DODGE, Iowa — Allison Roderick has a warning and a pledge for rural residents of her county: The water from their wells could be contaminated, but the government can help make it safe. Roderick is the […]
2023-10-25 Quick Genetic Test Offers Hope for Sick, Undiagnosed Kids. But Few Insurers Offer to Pay. Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Just 48 hours after her birth in a Seattle-area hospital in 2021, Layla Babayev was undergoing surgery for a bowel obstruction. Two weeks later, she had another emergency surgery, and then developed […]
2023-10-24 Tiny, Rural Hospitals Feel the Pinch as Medicare Advantage Plans Grow Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News Jason Bleak runs Battle Mountain General Hospital, a small facility in a remote Nevada gold mining town that he described as “out here in the middle of nowhere.” When several representatives from private health insurance […]
2023-10-23 Health Care ‘Game-Changer’? Feds Boost Care for Homeless Americans Angela Hart The Biden administration is making it easier for doctors and nurses to treat homeless people wherever they find them, from creekside encampments to freeway underpasses, marking a fundamental shift in how — and where — health care is delivered. As of […]
2023-10-22 Under Fire, Social Security Chief Vows ‘Top-to-Bottom’ Review of Payment Clawbacks David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group The head of the Social Security Administration said Wednesday the agency has been sending about 1 million people a year notices that they were paid benefits to which they were not entitled, and […]