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Watch: The Long-Term Care Crisis: Why Few Can Afford to Grow Old in America
By Jordan Rau
December 6, 2023
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Jordan Rau, KFF Health News
For many in America, especially people in the middle class, old age is a daily struggle to keep up with…
Biden Wants States to Ensure Obamacare Plans Cover Enough Doctors and Hospitals
The Biden administration plans to push states to boost oversight of the number of doctors, hospitals, and other health providers insurers cover in Obamacare plans, under rules proposed in November.
The annual regulatory…
Readers Slam Hospital Monopolies and Blame the Feds for Understaffed Nursing Homes
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Why Hospital Monopolies Are a Bad Idea
I recently read the article about…
Watch and Listen: Opioid Settlement Case Triggers Protests Outside the High Court
By Aneri Pattani
December 5, 2023
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Aneri Pattani
The Supreme Court heard a case this week about who could claim bankruptcy protection from civil lawsuits. The case…
Colorado Says Drug Industry Blocked Its Canada Dreams – And Biden Hasn’t Helped
Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News
Colorado’s leaders had grand plans to import cheaper medicines from Canada, after the Trump administration issued rules in 2020 allowing states to try it.
But officials in Denver say they’ve been stymied…
Patients Expected Profemur Artificial Hips to Last. Then They Snapped in Half.
Bradley Little, a physical education teacher in Arizona, was leading his class through a school hallway in 2017 when he collapsed. Little feared he was having a stroke. Or, in a sign of the times, that he’d been shot. He tried to…
What to Know About Home Care Services
Most older Americans want to live at home as long as they can, but finding and affording the help they need often isn’t easy. There are severe shortages of home health aides in many parts of the country. Hiring them is costly. And…
Doctors on (Video) Call: Rural Medics Get Long-Distance Help in Treating Man Gored by Bison
After he was gored by a bison, Jim Lutter got treatment from in-person ambulance medics and a doctor communicating from 140 miles away through a video system in the vehicle. (Arielle Zionts/KFF Health…
Desperate Families Search for Affordable Home Care
It’s a good day when Frank Lee, a retired chef, can slip out to the hardware store, fairly confident that his wife, Robin, is in the hands of reliable help. He spends nearly every hour of every day anxiously overseeing her care at…
Biden’s Got a New Set of Orders for Obamacare. Is It His Last?
The Biden administration has issued its latest official wish list for Obamacare insurance plans, potentially one of the last major Affordable Care Act health policy efforts in the president’s first term.
Changes on tap for…