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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Autumn of Democrats’ Discontent
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Democrats in Congress and the White…
The Checkup Is in the Mail? Soliciting Letter Carriers to Help Deliver Health Care
Two of America’s toughest problems can be tempered with one solution.
The baby boom generation is graying, creating an ever-larger population of older people, many isolated, whose needs the nation is ill equipped to meet or…
Biosimilar Drugs Are Cheaper Than Biologics. Are They Similar Enough to Switch?
It took years for Elle Moxley to get a diagnosis that explained her crippling gastrointestinal pain, digestion problems, fatigue, and hot, red rashes. And after learning in 2016 that she had Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammation…
Democrats Roll the Dice on Sweeping Abortion Rights Bill — Again
Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News
A newly conservative Supreme Court agreed to hear a case most assumed it would use to overrule the 1973 landmark abortion-rights ruling, Roe v. Wade. And Democrats on Capitol Hill, convinced the issue…
Cuando se desestima o estigmatiza a las muertes por covid, el dolor se mezcla con ira y vergüenza
Meses después de la muerte de Kyle Dixon, su vieja casa en Lanse, Pennsylvania, está llena de recordatorios de una vida truncada.
Su carpa y botas de trekking están en el porche donde las dejó por última vez. El césped que…
Home Births Gain Popularity in ‘Baby Bust’ Decade
In a back-to-the-future twist on birth trends, California is seeing a sustained rise in the number of women choosing to deliver their babies in settings other than a hospital, a shift that accelerated as the pandemic…
At an Overrun ICU, ‘the Problem Is We Are Running Out of Hallways’
BILLINGS, Mont. — Nurses fill the hospital room to turn a patient from his stomach to his back. The ventilator forcing air into him is most effective when he’s on his stomach, so he is in that position most hours of the day,…
Will ‘Dr. Disinformation’ Ever Face the Music?
Earlier this month, Dr. Rashid Buttar posted on Twitter that covid-19 “was a planned operation” and shared an article alleging that most people who got the covid vaccine would be dead by 2025.
His statement is a recent example…
Congress Cites KHN Investigation in Probe of National Academies
Christina Jewett and JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is requesting a ream of documents from the prestigious National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, spurred by a recent KHN…
California’s Reboot of Troubled Medi-Cal Puts Pressure on Health Plans
Bernard J. Wolfson
Photos by Heidi de Marco
When Denise Williams’ baby boy was 2 months old, she became alarmed by a rattling sound in his lungs and took him to the emergency room. While undergoing treatment, he spiraled into a…