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Hay más infecciones sexuales y empresas producen más tests caseros… ¿son confiables?
Uno de los legados más remarcables de la pandemia de covid-19 es la rapidez con la que los reguladores federales y los laboratorios se movieron para producir tests caseros, una herramienta confiable para manejar una crisis de…
Mistrust and Polarization Steer Rural Governments to Reject Federal Public Health Funding
ELKO, Nev. — When Elko County commissioners rejected a $500,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that could have helped the county create a health department or health district, Kayla Hopkins pleaded with…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Changing of the Guard
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The coming Congress will look different from the…
Cómo el optimismo puede cerrar la brecha de cobertura de Medicaid
Más de 2 millones de personas de bajos ingresos, la mitad de ellos en Florida y Texas, no tienen seguro porque están atrapados en una brecha de cobertura. Ganan demasiado para tener derecho a Medicaid, pero debido a una…
Fight Over Health Care Minimum Wage Yields a Split Decision in Southern California
Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News
An expensive fight over health worker pay in two Southern California cities appears to have ended in a draw, with each side claiming a victory and a loss.
Inglewood residents were poised to…
How Banks and Private Equity Cash In When Patients Can’t Pay Their Medical Bills
Noam N. Levey and Aneri Pattani
Patients at North Carolina-based Atrium Health get what looks like an enticing pitch when they go to the nonprofit hospital system’s website: a payment plan from lender AccessOne. The plans offer “easy…
Watch: As Health Costs Spike, the Role of Hospitals Often Gets Overlooked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxRWJsa0htA
The documentary “InHospitable” explores the role hospitals play in a fractured U.S. health care system and how they have driven up costs. It presents stories of patients and activists…
The Player-Coaches of Addiction Recovery Work Without Boundaries
Rae Ellen Bichell
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Sarah Wright stops by her peer support specialist’s hotel room-turned-office in this Denver suburb several times a day.
But her visit on a Wednesday morning in mid-October was one of her…
How Optimism Can Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap
More than 2 million low-income people — half of them in Florida and Texas — are uninsured because they are stuck in a coverage gap: They earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but because of a quirk of the Affordable Care Act,…
Medicare Plan Finder Likely Won’t Note New $35 Cap on Out-of-Pocket Insulin Costs
A big cut in prescription drug prices for some Medicare beneficiaries kicks in next year, but finding those savings isn’t easy.
Congress approved in August a $35 cap on what seniors will pay for insulin as part of the Inflation…