On What the Health? From KFF Health News, distributed by WAMU, chief Washington correspondent and host Julie Rovner sat down with Avik Roy, a GOP health policy adviser, to talk about how health care has evolved as a Republican issue. Roy, a co-founder and the chair of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, said…
Madison County, tucked in the mountains of western North Carolina, has no hospital and just three ambulances serving its roughly 22,000 people. The ambulances frequently travel back and forth to Mission Hospital in Asheville, the largest and most central hospital in the region. Trips can take more than two hours, according to Mark Snelson, director…
By MATTHEW HOLT Strap in for a dramatic tale in which our hero battles bureaucracy and logic to try to get his health insurance back. About 20 years ago lots of Americans, especially Californians who bought health insurance from Blue Shield of California, found that their coverage was cancelled without them knowing about it. That…
KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani discussed Maine’s largest HIV outbreak to date, including the challenges in tracking transmission and treating people with the virus, on The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Public Health On Call on Dec. 1. Click here to hear Pattani on Public Health On Call. Read Pattani’s “An…
Perhaps at least according to Tyler Cowen. Here is an excerpt from his Conversation with Dan Wang: WANG: …health care is what, 20% of the American GDP?COWEN: 17 point something. That’s a lot, right?WANG: That’s a lot. That feels too high to me. I feel like we should be ringing better efficiencies out here.COWEN: It seems not high enough,…
Recent weeks have brought good news about vaccines, with studies indicating that flu vaccination reduces heart disease, shingles vaccines can prevent or slow dementia, and a single human papilloma virus shot protects a girl from cervical cancer for the rest of her life. But in the upside-down world of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert…
Medication-delivering drones. Telehealth at libraries. Church-hosted wellness events. These are a few ideas proposed by states in their bids to win a portion of the new $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation Program. Congress approved the five-year spending plan in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the same law that codified nearly $1 trillion in…
Estados Unidos está a punto de perder su estatus de país libre de sarampión el próximo año. Si eso sucede, entraría en una nueva etapa en la que los brotes volverían a ser comunes. Más niñas y niños serían hospitalizados por esta enfermedad prevenible. Algunos perderían la audición. Algunos morirían. El sarampión también es costoso….
With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop. Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for most baby formulas, toothbrushes — or insurance premiums. President Donald Trump and some Republicans…
The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, the country will enter an era in which outbreaks are common again. More children would be hospitalized because of this preventable disease. Some would lose their hearing. Some would die. Measles is also expensive. A new study — not yet…