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Washing poultry or meat before cooking it can do more harm than good 鈥 spreading pathogens that can be killed only in the cooking process. But the practice persists. Here鈥檚 what you need to know this holiday season.
Trump administration efforts to undo Obama-era rules have helped create the buzz around this type of health coverage.
A crowdsourced investigation in which we dissect, investigate and explain medical bills you send us.
The fallout continues from that Texas court decision that ruled Congress鈥 2017 elimination of the tax penalty for failing to have insurance rendered the entire Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. Meanwhile, enrollment for 2019 at healthcare.gov was down, but far less than many predicted. KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner, along with panelists Joanne Kenen of Politico, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner, discuss this, plus the best, most overhyped and nerdiest stories of 2018. Also, Rovner interviews GOP strategist and pollster Frank Luntz.
Court watchers weren’t shocked when Reed O’Connor, a U.S. district judge in Texas, ruled the Affordable Care Act invalid. Critics say he usually sides with Republicans on ideological cases.
Many women aging alone want to hold on to their independence. But, when illness or disability strikes, they often need assistance. A program in New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco offers numerous ways to help.
There could be a long legal struggle ahead over the decision by a judge in Texas to invalidate the federal health law. But if his decision stands, it would have long-lasting effects on health care from insurance coverage to Medicare payments to privacy protections.
Biologic drugs, made from living organisms, are big moneymakers partly because they have little competition from 鈥渂iosimilars.鈥 It鈥檚 a very different story in Europe.
As the number of people who inject drugs has soared, the rate of hepatitis C infection has climbed steeply, too, because the disease can be tied to sharing needles. Yet many drug patients are not checked for the virus that can damage the liver.
Some legal experts say contract law could provide consumers another avenue to challenge unexpected hospital bills.
More than a third of high school seniors said they have vaped in the past year 鈥 up nearly 10 percentage points from the previous year. The dramatic jump comes despite efforts by public health officials, educators and lawmakers to reverse the e-cigarette trend among youths, including a recent proposal to ban retail sales of flavored tobacco products in California.
She took a bad fall on the slopes and her surgeon used a metal plate to put the splintered bones of her leg back together. When that device failed less than four months later, she and her insurer had to pay full price for the replacement plate.
The health care industry adds thousands of jobs to the economy each month. While they aren鈥檛 all doctors and nurses, they aren鈥檛 all paper pushers either.
A federal district judge in Texas ruled Friday that Congress鈥 2017 elimination of the tax penalty for failing to have insurance rendered the entire Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. What happens now? KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner, along with panelists Joanne Kenen of Politico, Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post, discuss the bombshell decision and its potential fallout.
A federal judge’s decision jeopardizes the federal health law. KHN’s Julie Rovner helps explain the repercussions in appearances on radio and television.
An analysis of inspection records in California, Florida and Texas shows significant numbers of violations related to assisted living residents with dementia.
The Lone Star State is an economic powerhouse, yet it fails to take care of its residents鈥 health and is home to some of the most extreme entrepreneurial medical practices.
The leaders of California鈥檚 legislative health committees who wield power over state health policy have been showered with money from the health care sector, with drug companies, health plans, hospitals and doctors providing nearly 40 percent of their 2017-18 campaign funds.
The case is not expected to have an immediate effect on coverage for people who buy plans on the federal health law marketplaces because the case is likely to go to the Supreme Court 鈥 the third time that the justices will decide the fate of the landmark health law.
The potentially improper payments occurred in 2014 and 2015, when the state says it was under pressure from a massive influx of new applicants due to the Affordable Care Act鈥檚 Medicaid expansion.
