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Obamacare insurance isn’t worth it anymore for some families. After Congress allowed pandemic-era subsidies to expire, many are going without insurance, some for the first time.
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NEW: A Tennessee doctor who signed covid-19 vaccine waivers for people without actually examining them has lost his medical license after a Nashville news station duped him into giving a waiver to… a dog.
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More than 42% of the 9.5 million people diagnosed with cancer from 2000 to 2012 drained their life's assets within two years, according to a study published last year in the American Journal of Medicine. via @annagorman KHN/@NPR n.pr/2XhuqAu
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Not the dust masks or the surgical masks that loop around your ears. Forget wearing a bandana or holding a tissue over your mouth — those won’t protect your lungs. Experts recommend the“N95” respirators or “P100” masks. Graphic via @CaitlinHillyard #CaliforniaFires
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Moderna’s latest analysis of its vaccine clinical trial data shows 900 people got covid after being vaccinated, consistent with 90% or more efficacy for the vaccine, company spokesperson Colleen Hussey said.
📝: Steven Findlay khn.org/news/article/the-sho…
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President Trump said that he will "always protect people with preexisting conditions." In January, President Trump claimed that he "saved" preexisting conditions. We rated this claim Pants on Fire. KHN/@PolitiFact #Debates2020
📝: @shefalil khn.org/news/trumps-claim-th…
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A look at the U.S. attempt to switch medical charts into electronic records. “The system is an unholy mess.” via @FredSchulte and @erikafry KHN/@FortuneMagazine khn.org/OTI3ODU5
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Is #TrumpAdminstration really working to protect #PreExistingConditions? In January, Trump attempted to take credit for protecting preexisting medical conditions. We rated this claim Pants on Fire. KHN/@PolitiFact #HealthCheck #Debates2020
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. @GovRonDeSantis said lockdown states have seen “increased deaths from suicide, substance abuse and despair without any corresponding benefit in covid mortality.” We rate the statement Mostly False.
📝: @philgalewitz, KHN/@PolitiFact
🔗: khn.org/news/article/desanti…
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Defendants In Diapers? Immigrant Toddlers Ordered To Appear In Court Alone khn.org/ODUxNDg5 via @By_CJewett and @shefalil
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At tonight’s #SOTU President #Trump claimed that he saved #PreExistingConditions. @shefalil fact-checked this. We rate this claim Pants on Fire. KHN/@PolitiFact #HealthCheck khn.org/MTA0MDUwMg
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How many people have #PreexistingConditions? #JoeBiden claimed “There’s 100 million people that have pre-existing conditions.” Experts all agreed that Biden was certainly in the ballpark with his estimate. KHN/@PolitiFact #Debates2020
📝: @victoriaregisk khn.org/news/bidens-in-the-b…
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Cancer patients are 2.5 times more likely to file for bankruptcy than those without #cancer, and bankruptcy puts them at a higher risk for early death, according to research.
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As president, Klobuchar said, she would unleash the bargaining power of #Medicare to lower drug prices. “There are, literally, two pharmaceutical lobbyists for every member of Congress. They think they own Congress. They don’t own me.” via @Julie_appleby khn.org/OTc3NTEz
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Senior scientists with NIH grants fear the Trump administration will abandon all work on mRNA, a promising field of medical research for flu, AIDS, cancer, and more.
@ArthurAllen202 reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/artic…
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San Francisco activist @Sfdirewolf decries a society she sees as willing to sacrifice its most vulnerable citizens. “What kind of world is this where we have to defend our humanity?”
📝: @rachelscheier
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Newsrooms are shrinking,
But our hearts are full.
We’re announcing a new @KHNews Midwest/❤️land Bureau.
#healthpolicyvalentines
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As the U.S. pushes to get people vaccinated, a curious benefit is emerging for those with long covid syndrome: Their symptoms are easing and, in some cases, fully resolving after vaccination.
📝: @WStoneReports khn.org/news/article/mysteri…
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NEW: @KamalaHarris was concerned about mergers among hospitals, physician groups, and insurers as California’s top prosecutor. If she wins in November, she could focus on competition and health care prices nationally.
@bjwolfson & @philgalewitz report ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/artic…
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Two California public health officials who pressed forward with aggressive measures to contain covid-19 even while enduring death threats and harassment were honored with the 2021 PEN/Benenson Courage Award from PEN America in Oct.
📝 : @annabarryjester
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Here's the #MedicareForAll tweet by @PeteButtigieg that @amyklobuchar referenced during tonight's #DemDebate. 👇
Gosh! Okay... I, Pete Buttigieg, politician, do henceforth and forthwith declare, most affirmatively and indubitably, unto the ages, that I do favor Medicare for All, as I do favor any measure that would help get all Americans covered. Now if you'll excuse me, potholes await.
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"Though my mother almost certainly died of COVID-19 (she met the clinical case definition), her death was, as far as I can tell, not counted — and certainly will not be counted if the White House gets its way."
📝: @RosenthalHealth khn.org/MTEwODYzOQ
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Randall Marley, a computer systems engineer, says he frequently comes home from work to find his wife not feeling well and frustrated about having spent a precious day of her recovery making phone calls to understand and dispute #medicalbills.
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Pfizer has the biggest-selling covid vaccine and the highest-value covid drug. Some feel the company has too much influence on U.S. covid policy.
📝: @ArthurAllen202
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#NewOnKHN: Getting the #CovidVaccine does not mean that you should stop wearing a mask. Here are five reasons Americans should hold on to their masks.
📝: @LizSzabo khn.org/news/article/5-reaso…
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While it's very difficult to find cheap rapid covid tests in the U.S. right now, the United Kingdom provides 14 tests per person free of charge.
📝 : @rachanadixit and @hnorms
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Many doctors can do a rapid strep test in half an hour, and the “slow” test takes a day. Imagine if it took 12 days before doctors knew whether to prescribe an antibiotic.
📝: @RosenthalHealth khn.org/news/analysis-when-i…
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“The staff who come into my home should be vaccinated. It’s that simple. It’s a matter of life and death.”
California now mandates that aides for people with disabilities be vaccinated.
@JackieFortier / @KPCC
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Sen. @SenDuckworth (D-Ill.) and Rep. @AyannaPressley (D-Mass.) have introduced legislation that would ensure three days of paid leave for #miscarriage and other fertility challenges. #WomensHealth
📝: @brycecovert
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Researchers are concerned that nurses working in a rapidly changing crisis like the pandemic can develop a psychological response called “moral injury.”
📝: @Charlotte_Huff, KHN/@people people.com/health/nurses-fee…
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Congratulations to KHN's @jayhancock1 and @eklucas on being named @PulitzerPrizes finalists for their work on investigating UVA hospital billing practices! pulitzer.org/finalists/jay-h…
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The federal government has continued to leave it up to the airlines to regulate themselves regarding masks and other policies to foster consumer confidence in air travel.
📝: @victoriaregisk for KHN/@USATODAY
As consumers consider traveling again, they discover the public health guidelines in place for flying often are a messy patchwork of precautions that lack the teeth to protect passengers.
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Paul Charon is one of the 230 health care workers who are documented in #LostOnTheFrontline, an ongoing project between KHN and @GuardianUS that aims to document every U.S. health care worker who dies of COVID-19. Here's a link to our database: bit.ly/3izkfRG
PAUL CHARON, 62, of Saratoga Springs, New York, died of COVID-19 on
He was a traveling radiology technologist, conducting X-rays on patients across the region. He loved to hike and was a member of the Adirondack 46ers Mountain Club.
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Big Pharma says bill will kill drug innovation.
@ASlavitt calls “bullshit.”
📝: @arthurallen202 khn.org/news/article/big-pha…
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We’re thrilled to announce that our exciting new rural health desk will be starting up later this month!
Joining will be Nathan Payne, @tonyleys, @jazmin1orozco, @cnsaintlouis, @Ajzionts, and KHN veteran @sjtribble. We can't wait to see what this all-star team will accomplish 🌟
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New mattresses. Mold removal. Eradicating roaches. These aren’t traditional health care treatments, but next year, California’s #Medicaid program will offer some of these in-home services to low-income asthma patients.
📝: @ahartreports
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Florida's Surgeon General told seniors to shun mRNA-based covid vaccines. One scientist called it “unprecedented” for a state to urge its residents to ignore expert advice on an FDA-approved vaccine.
📝: @ArthurAllen202, @dchangmiami, Sam Whitehead kffhealthnews.org/news/artic…
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A GOP proposal to tax employer-provided health benefits could add hundreds of dollars to workers’ tax bills. khn.org/Njk3MjA1
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Given many patients cannot work during treatment, these bills may force even relatively well-to-do #cancer patients to take out second mortgages or worry about leaving debt behind for their families. via @annagorman khn.org/OTE4OTIx
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Over 100 million people in America ― including 41% of adults ― are plagued by a health care system that is systematically pushing patients into debt on a mass scale.
KHN-@NPR are sharing their stories in a new investigative series #DiagnosisDebt.
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After seeing a #Facebook comment alleging that #facemasks can cause low oxygen levels, Dr. Megan Hall decided to try a small experiment. Her oxygen saturation levels remained consistent no matter what type of face mask she wore.
📝: @annaalmendrala
🔗: khn.org/MTEyODY4Mw
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Health insurers could do more to encourage vaccination, including letting the unvaccinated foot their bills.
📝: @RosenthalHealth, @GlennKramon for @KHNews & @nytopinion khn.org/news/article/analysi…
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The number of U.S. deaths from COVID-19 has surpassed 775K. But left behind are tens of thousands of children — some orphaned entirely — after their parents or a grandparent who cared for them died.
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As we approach the final hours of the #Trump presidency, we wonder if today will be the day for the reveal of his long awaited health plan. Last year, @victoriaregisk wrote about the many instances when Trump promised its debut. KHN/@PolitiFact khn.org/news/back-to-the-fut…
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Workers who lose employer-based health coverage during a strike or lockout will have access to a full-subsidy plan through Covered California.
📝: @AnnieSciacca khn.org/news/article/califor…
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The president talked about a health care plan that would be released soon. But in 3½ years, he has yet to deliver. Here are some of the many instances when Trump promised a new health plan was coming. #Debates2020 #HealthCheck
📝: @victoriaregisk khn.org/news/back-to-the-fut…
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“The booster program has been botched from day one,” @EricTopol says. “This is one of the most important issues for the American pandemic, and it has been mismanaged."
📝: @LizSzabo
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NEW: Deploying tear gas chemicals could harm people in several ways: exposing more people to the coronavirus, compromising the body’s ability to fight off the infection and even causing mild infections to become more severe illnesses.
📝: @WStoneReports khn.org/news/tear-gassing-pr…
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“Bottom line is, there’s much more aerosol [transmission] than we thought,” Fauci said.
📝: @robertianlewis/ @By_CJewett khn.org/news/battle-rages-in…
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‘The Vaccination Queen’: Nurse Practitioner Takes Covid Shots House to House in Puerto Rico khn.org/MTM0ODgwNQ via @khnews
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“There’s 100M people that have preexisting conditions,” said former VP @JoeBiden, arguing that those patients could lose coverage protections if the federal health law were declared unconstitutional.
📝: @victoriaregisk, KHN/@PolitiFact #Debates2020 khn.org/news/bidens-in-the-b…
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At least 303 public health leaders have retired, resigned or been fired since the pandemic began, according to an ongoing @KHNews and @AP analysis.
1 in 5 Americans have lost a local health leader during the pandemic.
#UnderfundedUnderThreat
At least 26 states have passed laws that permanently curtail state and local officials' power to combat public health threats like the coronavirus, a @KHNews, @AP investigation has found. #UnderfundedUnderThreat
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1/2 Exciting news: KHN is expanding and adding a #ruralhealth desk! Rural areas can have significant health care challenges that we want to cover more. That also means we’re hiring… ⤵️
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NEW: Amari Marsh didn’t know she was under investigation after she lost her pregnancy. Yet three months later, she was charged with murder. How pregnancy losses are being criminalized.
Story by @laurenmsausser:
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Many hospitals conduct nightly wealth screenings to gauge which patients are most likely to be the source of large donations. via @philgalewitz for @nytimes nyti.ms/2HwfvPf
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At least 2.2 million low-income adults — nearly all in TX and the Southeast — would be eligible for government-funded health insurance under the Democrats’ $1.75 trillion plan.
📝: @philgalewitz & Andy Miller, KHN/@gahealthnews
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Poll: Most Americans Unaware GOP Plans Would Make Deep Funding Cuts To Medicaid khn.org/NzQxOTQ2 via @KHNews @shefalil
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Nurse Divina “Debbie” Accad had cared for veterans for over 25 years and was set to retire in April. But after contracting the novel coronavirus, she spent her final 11 days on a ventilator — and didn’t survive past March. #LostOnTheFrontline
🔗: khn.org/MTA4MjkxMg
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Health officials are sounding alarms about a new and rapidly spreading COVID-19 subvariant. KHN's @celinegounder joined @CBSNews to explain how XBB.1.5 differs from its predecessors.
Watch the full interview: cbsnews.com/video/covid-19-o…
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“If there were ever an opportunity” to change the economics of vaccine development, “this would have been it,” said Ameet Sarpatwari, an epidemiologist and lawyer at Harvard Medical School.
📝: @jayhancock1 khn.org/news/rather-than-giv…
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A twice-yearly injection could help prevent HIV infections, according to the results of a new study described by medical experts as a breakthrough.
Read more in our #MorningBriefing: kffhealthnews.org/morning-br…
ALT Headline reads, "Study Finds Twice-Yearly Shot 100% Effective At Blocking HIV" Text reads, "In a study of 5,000 young women and girls in Africa, none of the patients who received the shots contracted HIV. "
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Since she’s unable to work, the family lost her nursing salary.
“Money is not coming in, and it’s going out by the thousands.”
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#NewOnKHN: #LostOnTheFrontline, a yearlong investigation by @GuardianUS and KHN to count health care worker deaths, ends today. More than 3,600 U.S. health care workers perished in the first year of the pandemic.
📝: @janebspencer/@By_CJewett khn.org/news/article/us-heal…
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“This is a deathblow,” @BrianCCastrucci said of the avalanche of laws that rollback public health. #UnderfundedUnderThreat KHN/@AP
📝: @LaurenWeberHP/@annabarryjester
🔗: bit.ly/3nBVzhu
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Our most absurd bill may have been this $540,841.90 dialysis bill after 14 weeks of #dialysis care at an out-of-network Fresenius clinic. The insurer paid $16,241.73. The clinic billed Mr. Valentine for the unpaid balance of $524,600.17. khn.org/OTc0Njk3 #BilloftheMonth
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A high-ranking federal official in late Feb. warned that the U.S. needed to plan for not having enough #PPE for medical workers as they began to battle the novel #coronavirus, according to internal emails obtained by KHN. via @rachanadixit/@By_CJewett khn.org/news/red-dawn-breaki…
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Scientists have found little evidence that the kind of masks worn by students negatively affect oxygen or carbon dioxide levels.
📝 : @loujacobson, @PolitiFact khn.org/news/article/science…
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A rare moment of bipartisan agreement happened between two unlikely senators this week — @SenSanders and @SenRandPaul — who both supported importing drugs from Canada, the U.K., and other countries.
📝: @victoriaregisk
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#NewOnKHN: Yolanda Coar was 40 when she died of COVID-19 in August 2020. She was also a nurse manager, and one of nearly 3,000 frontline workers who have died in the U.S. fighting this virus, according to an exclusive investigation by @GuardianUS and KHN. khn.org/news/article/video-t…
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Both candidates must address parents who have to give their children #TheTalk.
"Speak in short sentences. Be clear. Direct but not rude. Stay calm, even if you’re shaking inside. Never put your hands in your pockets."
📝: @CaraRAnthony, #Debates2020 khn.org/news/just-make-it-ho…
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Is there any truth to the idea that #PresidentTrump is responsible for saving 2 million lives from COVID-19? Since Trump continues to use it to claim success, we decided to look into it. KHN/@PolitiFact #HealthCheck
📝: @victoriaregisk khn.org/news/fact-check-pres…
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The head of @CDCgov has called for a “reset” of the agency after its pandemic failures. Mary Wakefield, a former nurse and Obama administration veteran, has been tapped for the difficult job.
📝: @sclaudwhitehead khn.org/news/article/meet-ma…
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During #SOTU2020 President #Trump claimed that prescription drug prices are going down. Experts told us the data remains essentially unchanged. Drug prices are still not going down. via @shefalil KHN/@PolitiFact #HealthCheck khn.org/MTA0ODUyMA
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When physicians decide not to provide treatments widely accepted as the standard of care because of these new laws, “that’s perceived as substandard care and there is increased civil liability.”
📝: @Meyer_HM kffhealthnews.org/news/artic…
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#NEW: No prison time for #RaDondaVaught, whose trial became a rallying cry for #nurses fearful of the criminalization of medical mistakes. #NurseTwitter
📝: @BrettKelman
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What happens to health programs if the government shuts down Oct. 1? It depends on the program — and on how long the shutdown lasts.
📝: @jrovner
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Fauci and NIH scientists have encouraged Biden to announce a plan for COVID booster shots beginning Sept 20. However, scientists at the FDA and CDC aren't yet convinced. What happens next will be determined this Friday.
📝@sjtribble & @ArthurAllen202
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After Carol Marley was diagnosed with pancreatic #cancer last July, she says, she worried what it would mean for her family, including her 88-year-old father with #dementia. #BilloftheMonth Photo via @annagorman
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“To say there was no playbook was ridiculous,” said Lurie, who served as the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at HHS during both terms of the Obama administration.
📝: @victoriaregisk, KHN/@PolitiFact #HealthCheck khn.org/news/evidence-shows-…
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#NewOnKHN: Private equity firms have shelled out almost $1 trillion to acquire nearly 8,000 health care businesses, in deals almost always hidden from federal regulators.
The result: higher prices, lawsuits, and complaints about care.
📝: @FredSchulte khn.org/news/article/private…
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This profile is relevant again now that she's ruled against parts of GOP health bill khn.org/news/this-woman-can-… via @jrovner
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Promises Made To Protect Preexisting Conditions Prove Hollow khn.org/NzQxOTc1 via @KHNews @jayhancock1 @RachelHBluth
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90 to 95 percent of the grass-roots network of doctors on the ground in Puerto Rico are women. khn.org/Nzg4NTA3
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This year’s #HealthPolicyValentines submissions were full of compassion for patients and concern over the nation’s health care system.
Here's a look at the winning poem by @goldberg_ja!
Illustration by @oonatempest
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We're getting ready for a night full of fact-checking! We teamed up with our partners at @PolitiFact to watch tonight's #debate. Sit back, relax and keep an eye out on our twitter feeds as we provide real-time verification throughout the evening. #HealthCheck #Debates2020
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#PresidentTrump has been promising a “terrific,” “phenomenal” and “fantastic” new health care plan to replace the #ACA.
But, in the 3½ years since he set up shop in the Oval Office, he has yet to deliver.
📝: @victoriaregisk, KHN/@PolitiFact khn.org/news/back-to-the-fut…
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NEW: Ten of the doctors on the FDA panels reviewing an Abbot heart device had financial ties with the company. The FDA didn’t disclose that information.
Here's what you need to know, reported by @DavidHilzenrath & @hollyhacker: kffhealthnews.org/news/artic…
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A man in Germany who had been diagnosed with HIV has been declared free of the virus after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells through a bone marrow transplant intended to treat leukemia.
Read more in today's KHN #MoringBriefing. khn.org/morning-briefing/tue…
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Some #publichealth experts contend that social and economic conditions ― long overlooked by government leaders, policymakers and the public ― are even more powerful indicators of who will survive the #CoronavirusPandemic.
📝: @LizSzabo/@hannah_recht khn.org/news/covid-south-oth…
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Both the FDA and Biogen, makers of Alzheimer's drug aducanumab, declined to comment for this article. Some physicians who treat Alzheimer’s patients say they won’t prescribe the drug even if it’s approved.
@Meyer_HM investigates. khn.org/news/article/fda-wei…
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As coronavirus cases surge — and dire shortages of lifesaving protective gear like N95 masks persist — the nation’s health care workers are again facing life-threatening conditions in Southern and Western states.
📝: @daniellerenwick, @shoshanadubnow khn.org/news/exclusive-over-…
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NEW: The federal government has launched its first confirmed probe of an alleged denial of an abortion during a medical emergency. The hospital is in Missouri, which has banned nearly all abortions,
📝: @Meyer_HM khn.org/news/article/emtala-…
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1/7 The SCOTUS has overturned #RoevWade 6-3. @jrovner has the latest. #Dobbs
But what does that mean for people around the nation? 🧵
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“If you’re a black woman, you’re 320% more likely to die from complications in childbirth,” said @AndrewYang. We rate it True. #HealthCheck via @shefalil/@victoriaregisk for KHN/@PolitiFact khn.org/MTAzNDAzMA
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Both candidates are discussing the cost to consumer associated with the #CoronavirusOutbreak. Trump said insurers will cover the cost, but that isn't entirely true.
📝: @shefalil/@AmySherman1 KHN/@PolitiFact #HealthCheck khn.org/news/trump-wrongly-s…
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President Donald Trump’s executive order says that people with #PreexistingConditions can get affordable insurance. But it doesn’t explain how. #HealthCheck #Debates2020
📝: @JonZGreenberg, @PolitiFact khn.org/news/trumps-executiv…
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Nearly 600 front-line health care workers appear to have died of COVID-19, according to #LostOnTheFrontline, a project launched by The @Guardian and KHN that aims to count, verify and memorialize every health care worker who dies during the pandemic.
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A wonderful update: Last year, KHN's @CaraRAnthony & @raelnb reported this story.
And the person featured in it, Alphonso Harried, got a kidney transplant today because someone read their story and volunteered to donate to him! 🥳🥳🥳#KHNimpact
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“It’s a backwards strategy,” said an infectious disease specialist. “It’s so much better to prevent a disease than to use an expensive, cumbersome and difficult-to-use therapy.”
khn.org/MTM2NTcyMg via @khnews
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Just over half of all the debt that appears on credit reports is related to medical expenses. khn.org/NzQ3NzEy
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