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While national business groups fight the single-payer concept, the founder and CEO of a large Pennsylvania picture frame manufacturer tries to convince other employers that it鈥檚 the only way to control costs and fix the U.S. health system.
The Affordable Care Act and other federal laws sought to put mental health care on an equal footing with physical health. But patients are still finding that鈥檚 not the case.
Under a program enacted in Washington state this spring, workers can get up to $36,500 to help pay for long-term health care and services such as installing grab bars in the shower or respite care for family caregivers.
The problem affects private drug policies and Medicare Advantage plans that provide both medical and drug coverage and substitute for traditional government-run Medicare. It could leave plan members without coverage.
People who buy insurance on their own may have little notice when something goes amiss. It鈥檚 a quirk in health policy at the heart of the next episode of 鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥 podcast.
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to help an estimated 850,000 Californians pay their health insurance premiums and would fund his plan with a tax penalty on people who don鈥檛 have coverage. If he succeeds, California would be the first state to subsidize middle-income people who make too much to qualify for federal financial aid.
In a mission of forgiveness, churches around the country are buying up medical debt for pennies on the dollar then erasing the debts of strangers. Since the start of 2018, at least 18 churches nationwide have abolished more than $34 million burdening America鈥檚 most debt-ridden patients.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
More than half of Americans contacted about an overdue bill said it related to medical debt. A federal agency has proposed new guidance for what debt collectors are allowed to do when pursuing many types of overdue consumer bills, including medical debt. But some consumer advocates have panned the effort.
Millions of Californians are vulnerable to hefty surprise medical bills from their trips to the emergency room. Now, state lawmakers are considering a measure to cap how much out-of-network hospitals can charge privately insured patients for emergency care, which could serve as a model for other states.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Reform has a cost. But the point of a health care system is to treat patients, not to buttress the economy.
At Wednesday鈥檚 House Budget Committee, Congressional Budget Office experts outlined the complexities of implementing an overhaul of America鈥檚 health insurance system.
This high-profile issue has gained bipartisan attention, but it remains unclear if that鈥檚 enough to move it to the finish line. Here鈥檚 a review of the current state of play.
Not exactly. We found that protections for preexisting conditions for most people with job-based insurance predated the Affordable Care Act by more than a decade.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Officials in Washington and other states are cracking down on companies that avoid health insurance regulations by masquerading as faith-based care.
Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss the new abortion bans passed in Alabama and Georgia; bipartisan congressional efforts to end 鈥渟urprise鈥 out-of-network medical bills; and a new public option health insurance plan soon to be available in Washington state.
The administration鈥檚 position on a pending lawsuit to get the Affordable Care Act is one of the reasons experts said there鈥檚 cause for skepticism.
Walmart, the nation鈥檚 largest private employer, is recommending that employees and dependents use one of 800 imaging centers identified as providing trustworthy care.
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