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The Host Mary Agnes Carey KFF Health News @MaryAgnesCarey Read Mary Agnes’ stories Partnerships Editor and Senior Correspondent, oversees placement of KFF Health News content in publications nationwide and covers…
At Least 1.7M Americans Use Health Sharing Arrangements, Despite Lack of Protections
A new report has provided the first national count of Americans who rely on health care sharing plans — arrangements through which people agree to pay one another’s medical bills…
Medicaid: más de medio millón ya han perdido cobertura desde fin de beneficios pandémicos
Más de 600,000 estadounidenses han perdido la cobertura de Medicaid desde que terminaron las protecciones por la pandemia el 1 de abril. Un análisis de KFF Health News de los…
On the Brink of Homelessness, San Diego Woman Wins the Medi-Cal Lottery
ESCONDIDO, Calif. — Annie Malloy started getting sick in 2020. Fits of uncontrolled vomiting would hit, causing debilitating nausea and severe dehydration that would send her to the emergency room.…
Fraudsters Are Duping Homeless People Into Signing Up for ACA Plans They Can’t Afford
MIAMI — Mary Zhelyazkova was surprised when pharmacists at Florida’s largest safety net hospital said they could not fill her prescription. Zhelyazkova, 40, was living at a homeless shelter and…
Your Money or Your Life: Patient on $50,000-a-Week Cancer Drug Fears Leaving Behind Huge Medical Debt
After several rounds of treatment for a rare eye cancer — weekly drug infusions that could cost nearly $50,000 each — Paul Davis learned Medicare had abruptly stopped paying the…
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A Windfall in Health Insurance Rebates? It’s Not as Crazy as It Sounds
“Americans will get $1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year cuz of a provision I wrote in the ACA.” Former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), in a tweet…
A ‘Payday Loan’ From a Health Care Behemoth
Alex Shteynshlyuger, a urologist with a practice in New York City, feels surrounded by UnitedHealth Group. He has seen the company gobble up private practices and says it’s slow to…
Our 300th Episode!
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the…