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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: SCOTUS Decides An ACA Case. No, Not THAT Case. 1

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: SCOTUS Decides An ACA Case. No, Not THAT Case.

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Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Julie Rovner Kaiser Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s Stories Mary Ellen McIntire CQ Roll Call @MelMcIntire Read Mary Ellen’s Stories Caitlin Owens Axios @caitlinnowens Read Caitlin’s Stories The Supreme Court this week rejected the efforts of a Republican-controlled Congress in 2014 to cut off funding […]

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As Coronavirus Strikes, Crucial Data In Electronic Health Records Hard To Harvest

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When President Donald Trump started touting hydroxychloroquine as “one of the biggest game changers” for treating COVID-19, researchers hoped electronic health records could quickly tell them if he was on the right track. Yet pooling data from the digital records systems in thousands of hospitals has proved a technical nightmare thus far. That’s largely because

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‘An Arm And A Leg’: If Insurer Bills You For COVID Testing, Talk — And Maybe Tweet — It Out 9

‘An Arm And A Leg’: If Insurer Bills You For COVID Testing, Talk — And Maybe Tweet — It Out

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Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. About This Podcast Health care — and how much it costs — is scary. But you’re not alone with this stuff, and knowledge is power. “An Arm and a Leg” is a podcast about these issues, and its second season is co-produced by KHN. Visit armandalegshow.com Anna

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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Whom Do We Trust For COVID Info? 11

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Whom Do We Trust For COVID Info?

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Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Julie Rovner Kaiser Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s Stories Jennifer Haberkorn Los Angeles Times @jenhab Read Jennifer’s Stories Joanne Kenen Politico @JoanneKenen Read Joanne’s Stories Alice Miranda Ollstein Politico @AliceOllstein Read Alice’s Stories Congress is approving still more money to address the health and economic

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Coronavirus Crisis Opens Access To Online Opioid Addiction Treatment

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Opioid addiction isn’t taking a break during the coronavirus pandemic. But the U.S. response to the viral crisis is making addiction treatment easier to get. Under the national emergency declared by the Trump administration in March, the government has suspended a federal law that required patients to have an in-person visit with a physician before

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Biden Says OSHA Isn’t Doing Enough To Protect Workers’ From COVID-19 19

Biden Says OSHA Isn’t Doing Enough To Protect Workers’ From COVID-19

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“Until this week, they [OSHA] weren’t even enforcing these guidelines. Still today, OSHA is not specifying which rules employees must follow or how to keep their workers safe and healthy.” Former Vice President Joe Biden in comments made during an April 15 virtual town hall meeting. This story was produced in partnership with PolitiFact. This

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The COVID-19 Bailout That’s Left Every Hospital Unhappy In Its Own Way 23

The COVID-19 Bailout That’s Left Every Hospital Unhappy In Its Own Way

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In the throes of the novel coronavirus outbreak in early April, Kenneth Raske, president of the powerful Greater New York Hospital Association, took his case for needing billions in federal relief funding to another New Yorker, well placed in the White House. The April 8 call with Jared Kushner lasted “probably 30 seconds.” After all,

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With Federal Nod, Consumers Could Lose The Boost They Get From Drug ‘Coupons’

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Patients who get financial help from drug companies to cover their copayments for prescription drugs could owe a bigger chunk of their costs under a proposed federal rule. The annual rule, which sets a wide range of standards regarding benefits and payments for most health plans for next year, would allow employers and insurers to

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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: How Will We Reopen The Economy? 25

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: How Will We Reopen The Economy?

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Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Julie Rovner Kaiser Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s Stories Anna Edney Bloomberg @annaedney Read Anna’s Stories Kimberly Leonard Business Insider @leonardkl Read Kimberly’s Stories Tami Luhby CNN @luhby Read Tami’s Stories President Donald Trump wants to reopen the country soon. But public health experts from

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Big Brother Wants To Track Your Location And Health Data. And That’s Not All Bad.

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A growing mix of health and technology experts are convinced that if the United States is to ever effectively track the coronavirus and slow its spread, then both self-reported and more surreptitiously gathered personal data — a mix of information about location, travel, symptoms and health conditions ― must be gathered from millions of Americans.

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Doctors Shocked By Rate Of Decline In Some Patients: They ‘Look Fine, Feel Fine, Then You Turn Around And They’re Unresponsive’

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Health professionals say even young patients can look healthy one minute and then be at death’s door. In other public health news: assisted living facilities, baby booms, origin of New York’s virus, tracking down cases, recovery, mask tips, domestic violence, and more.

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Americans Shouldn’t Expect Contagion To Abate Just Because Of Warmer Weather, Science Adviser Warns

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A new report points to cases in Australia and Iran as warnings that high temperatures and increased humidity may do little to curb outbreak. “There have been 10 influenza pandemics in the past 250-plus years — two started in the Northern Hemisphere winter, three in the spring, two in the summer and three in the

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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Who Will Pay For COVID-19 Care? 33

KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Who Will Pay For COVID-19 Care?

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Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Julie Rovner Kaiser Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s Stories Alice Miranda Ollstein Politico @AliceOllstein Read Alice’s Stories Paige Winfield Cunningham The Washington Post @pw_cunningham Read Paige’s Stories In the absence of clear leadership from the federal government, states and private companies are pursuing their own

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