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A foster care program on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota is attracting attention from officials elsewhere as they search for ways to reduce trauma inflicted on Indigenous families, who鈥檝e faced generations of high rates of family separation.
When Medicare stops paying for a pricey drug that prolongs life, an Ohio man considers giving up treatment to spare his family enormous debt.
KHN shares the cream of the crop of creative valentines about health policy submitted by readers and tweeters. Our favorite is anointed with an original illustration and bragging rights as 鈥渢he one.鈥
As a money-saving strategy, emergency rooms are turning to nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other staffers who earn far less than physicians.
As Montana officials seek to make nonprofit hospitals prove the benefits they provide the community justify their tax exemptions, industry leaders propose their own changes 鈥 which state officials say would further limit the state鈥檚 authority.
Local health departments combat disparities by funding immigrant and minority community groups and letting them decide how best to spend the money.
Insurers, employers, and taxpayers will all be affected as drug manufacturers move these products to the commercial market.
The bill, modeled on laws in North Dakota and Wyoming, is opposed by doctors who say it would let physician assistants practice outside the scope of their training.
President Joe Biden鈥檚 2023 State of the Union address leaned heavily on health care issues. Biden took a victory lap for recent accomplishments like capping prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare. He also urged Congress to make permanent the boosted premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, and he sparred with Republicans on threats to cut Social Security and Medicare. Also this week, both sides in the abortion debate are bracing for a court decision out of Texas that could, at least temporarily, make the abortion pill mifepristone illegal nationwide. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Kate Baicker of the University of Chicago about a possible middle ground in the effort to get universal health insurance coverage.
A private equity firm bought a birth center and then shut it down. The community brought it back as a nonprofit.
As Gov. Gavin Newsom enters his second term, his legacy as governor and path forward in the Democratic Party hinge on his making visible headway on California鈥檚 homeless crisis. We lay out the possibilities 鈥 and challenges 鈥 as he unleashes an $18 billion battle plan.
Since 2006, federal officials have been charged with setting up a network to let various parts of the U.S. health system share information during emergencies. It still hasn鈥檛 been built or even planned, even after the communication and data-sharing failures put on display during the pandemic.
The nation鈥檚 largest Medicaid insurer denies wrongdoing after the California attorney general鈥檚 office investigated it for inflating prescription drug costs.
Our partners at PolitiFact fact-checked a range of President Joe Biden鈥檚 statements, including key health-related comments.
Lawmakers say they don鈥檛 plan to revise state regulations on the sale of edibles despite more kids 5 and under ingesting them.
As he takes the reins of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, the independent from Vermont and implacable champion of 鈥淢edicare for All鈥 maps out his strategy for negotiating with Republicans 鈥 and Big Pharma.
The online women鈥檚 pharmacy agreed to pay $15 million to the state Department of Justice and $3.3 million to the Department of Insurance over claims it overbilled Medi-Cal.
Pharmacy closures by two of the biggest home infusion companies point to grave shortages and dangers for patients who require IV nutrition to survive.
New research links habitat destruction with the spillover of viruses from animals to humans.
Missouri and Montana are the only states without distracted driving laws for all drivers. With traffic fatalities rising significantly nationwide, some Missouri lawmakers and advocates for roadway safety are eyeing bills in the new legislative session that would crack down on texting while driving in the Show Me State.
