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How to Negotiate With Resistant Aging Parents? Borrow These Tips From the Business World
You’ve reached a standstill with your mother and father, who are in their late 80s. You think they need some help in the home, but they vigorously refuse. You’re frustrated because you want to make their lives easier. They’re…
The Debt Ceiling Deal Takes a Bite Out of Health Programs. It Could Have Been Much Worse.
Julie Rovner, KFF Health News
Policy analysts, Democrats, and Republicans dissatisfied with the deal agree: Federal health programs have dodged a budgetary bullet in the Washington showdown over raising the nation’s debt ceiling.…
Watch: Payback for the Opioid Crisis: How Did the Sackler Family Skirt Liability?
Thank you for your interest in supporting Kaiser Health News (KHN), the nation’s leading nonprofit newsroom focused on health and health policy. We distribute our journalism for free and without advertising through media partners of…
More States OK Postpartum Medicaid Coverage Beyond Two Months
Matt Volz
At least eight states this year have decided to seek federal approval to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage, leaving just a handful that have opted not to guarantee at least a year of health care for women during that critical…
As Medicaid Purge Begins, ‘Staggering Numbers’ of Americans Lose Coverage
More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since pandemic protections ended on April 1. And a KFF Health News analysis of state data shows the vast majority were removed from state rolls for not completing paperwork.…
Health Care Coalition Jockeys Over Medi-Cal Spending, Eyes Ballot Initiative
SACRAMENTO — Influential health care interests are jockeying over a potential infusion of $19.4 billion into Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, while also angling for a 2024 ballot initiative to permanently lock in that…
How a Medical Recoding May Limit Cancer Patients’ Options for Breast Reconstruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhL7IaQMrEg
The federal government is reconsidering a decision that breast cancer patients, plastic surgeons, and members of Congress have protested would limit women’s options for reconstructive…
Readers and Tweeters Weigh Marijuana’s Merits Against Those of Alcohol or Opioids
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names.
On Alcohol Abuse: Seeing a Double Standard
I have done quite a bit of…
California Governor and Democratic Lawmakers at Odds Over Billions in Health Care Funds
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Gov. Gavin Newsom took office four years ago, the Democrat went after Republicans on the national stage as they sought to gut the Affordable Care Act. Key to his ambitious health care agenda: reinstating…
Many People Living in the ‘Diabetes Belt’ Are Plagued With Medical Debt
Robert Benincasa, NPR and Nick McMillan, NPR
Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 when she was working in a weaving plant near her home in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and the world around her seemed to go dim.…