Republican legislators in more than half of U.S. states, spurred on by voters angry about lockdowns and mask mandates, are taking away the powers state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious diseases. A KHN review of hundreds of pieces of legislation found that, in all 50 states, legislators have proposed bills…
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Census: Insured Population Holds Smartly-liked, With a Minute Shift From Non-public to Public Coverage
Despite a pandemic-fueled recession, the number of uninsured Americans has increased only slightly since 2018, according to Census Bureau health insurance data released Tuesday. Twenty-eight million people, or 8.6% of Americans, were uninsured for all of 2020. In 2019, 8% of people were uninsured during the full year; in 2018, it was 8.5%. During a…
Justice Department Targets Records Mining in Medicare Profit Fraud Case
The feds’ civil suit links exaggerated patient bills to “tens of millions” in overcharges. (Samuel Corum / Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Justice Department has accused an upstate New York health insurance plan for seniors and its medical analytics company of cheating the government out of tens of millions of dollars. The civil complaint of…
Below Stress, Montana Sanatorium Considers Adding Psych Beds Amid a Shortage
Gary Popiel had to drive more than 200 miles round trip to visit his adult daughters in separate behavioral health facilities as they received psychiatric and medical treatment. It was 2000, and the family’s only options for inpatient psychiatric beds were in Helena and Missoula — far from their Bozeman, Montana, home and from each…
ICUs Are Stuffed With Covid — And Feel sorry about
Truck driver Joe Gammon has been receiving ECMO therapy at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, since mid-August, allowing his blood to be oxygenated by a machine by his bed. The life support is giving his lungs time to heal from covid-19, which he contracted in July. He now encourages others to get vaccinated.…
Health Care Unions Defending Newsom From Utilize Will Need Single-Payer Payback
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Should Gavin Newsom survive the Republican-driven attempt to oust him from office, the Democratic governor will face the prospect of paying back supporters who coalesced behind him. And the leaders of California’s single-payer movement will want their due. Publicly, union leaders say they’re standing beside Newsom because he has displayed political courage…
Why At-House Rapid Covid Tests Payment So Much, Even After Biden’s Push for Lower Prices
Rapid at-home covid tests are flying off store shelves across the nation and are largely sold out online as the delta variant complicates a return to school, work and travel routines. But at $10 or $15 a test, the price is still far too high for regular use by anyone but the wealthy. A family…
Georgia Eyes Contemporary Medicaid Contract. But How Is the Assert Managing Managed Care?
Just before Frank Berry left his job as head of Georgia’s Medicaid agency this summer, he said the state “will be looking for the best bang for the buck” in its upcoming contract with private insurers to cover the state’s most vulnerable. But whether the state — and Medicaid patients — are getting an optimal…
Journalists Exclaim Ramifications of Theranos Trial and Texas’ Novel Abortion Regulations
KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal discussed health tech and the start of the fraud trial of Elizabeth Holmes, who founded the biological screening company Theranos, on WGN’s “The John Williams Show” on Wednesday. Click here to hear Rosenthal on “The John Williams Show” KHN senior correspondent Julie Appleby discussed abortion law in Texas, covid-19 and vaccination…
‘Luckiest Man Alive’: Why 9/11 First Responders’ Outlooks Might maybe perchance well also Give a establish discontinuance to At the same time as Physical Health Fails
Ray Pfeifer and Luis Alvarez’s names are on the federal 9/11 legislation that establishes benefits for first responders. Both men fought to make Congress pass it while they were dying of cancer — and they had another thing in common. In spite of it all, they were content. “I am the luckiest man alive,” Pfeifer,…