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Once the rules for implementing it are worked out, a bill signed into federal law in December will eliminate the required five-month waiting period for diagnosed ALS patients to begin disability benefits, enabling quicker Medicare coverage as well.

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  • Health

ALS Patients To Gain Quicker Access To Disability Benefits And Medicare

Lou Gehrig's disease can take months to diagnose, then rapidly incapacitate patients, leaving many families bankrupt before disability payments and Medicare kick in. A recent law aims to change that.

January 20, 2021
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By:
  • Michelle Andrews
President-elect Joe Biden has released a $1.9 trillion proposal to help control the pandemic and bring economic relief to Americans.

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  • Health

'We're In A War With This Virus': Biden Lays Out COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan

President-Elect Joe Biden shares details of how his administration hopes to tackle the country's public health crisis. It's an aggressive plan that he needs Congress to fund.

January 15, 2021
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By:
  • Pien Huang and
  • Carmel Wroth
When President-elect Joe Biden takes office, making changes to the U.S. health care system through the executive branch will require painstaking work.

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  • Health

When Biden Takes Office, Undoing Trump's Health Policies Won't Be Easy

Democrats control the new Congress by such a slim margin that passing health laws will be daunting. Instead Biden may have to use executive authority to advance his health care vision.

January 09, 2021
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By:
  • Julie Rovner
Seema Verma, chief administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says the changes in the way Medicaid is funded and regulated in Tennessee "could be a national model moving forward."

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  • Health

Trump Officials Approve Tennessee's Controversial Request To Revamp Medicaid Funding

The plan, long endorsed by conservatives, would give the state broad flexibility in running its health insurance program for the poor, while capping annual federal funding for the program.

January 09, 2021
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By:
  • Phil Galewitz
Hospitals must now post on their websites, in a consumer-friendly format, the specific costs for 300 common and "shoppable" services, such as having a baby, getting a joint replacement, having a hernia repaired or undergoing a diagnostic brain scan.

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  • Health

Hospitals Forced To Be More Transparent About Pricing. Will That Save You Money?

Under a rule that kicked in Jan. 1, hospitals must now make public the prices they negotiate with health insurers. But health policy experts have divergent views on what that will mean for patients.

January 05, 2021
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By:
  • Julie Appleby
Nerissa Black works as a telemetry nurse at the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, Calif. Since early December, she's been tasked with caring for six critically ill patients per shift instead of four.

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  • Health

California Is Overriding Its Limits On Nurse Workloads As COVID-19 Surges

The state has a law strictly regulating nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals. But the governor recently said hospitals could lift those limits in pandemic times, and nurses are crying foul.

December 30, 2020
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By:
  • April Dembosky
Jon Ossoff, a Georgia Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, greets a supporter with an elbow bump at a drive-through event to pick up yard signs last month in Alpharetta, Ga. Ossoff is in a runoff with Republican David Perdue, the incumbent, for the U.S. Senate.

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  • Health

In Georgia Runoffs, Dems Are Running Hard On Health Care. Republicans? Not So Much

The two Democratic challengers for the U.S. Senate believe focusing on health care during a pandemic will motivate voters for the Jan. 5 runoff. If both win, their party will control the U.S. Senate.

December 20, 2020
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By:
  • Sam Whitehead
A proposed rule could cause headaches and extra work for the successor of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, seen with President Trump in November.

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  • Health

Trump HHS Proposal Criticized As Burden For Biden Administration

The rule would require health officials to review about 2,400 regulations on everything from Medicare benefits to prescription drugs approvals. Those not analyzed within two years would become void.

December 09, 2020
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By:
  • Phil Galewitz
Outside City Hall on the evening of a vote on a proposed mask order in Washington, Mo., residents Ali and Duncan Whittington protest against the order, along with their 4-year-old daughter. "I'm here because I feel my freedom is being violated," Ali says.

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  • Health

What Changes Minds About Masks? In This Small Town, It Was A Child's Death

Despite widespread resistance, Washington, Mo., became the latest community to flip its stance on mask wearing. The change came when the deaths hit close to home.

December 08, 2020
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By:
  • Sara Shipley Hiles

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  • Health

OPINION: To Solve The Pandemic, Biden Must Focus On Equity

Doctors who helped stop Ebola call on Joe Biden's transition team to address COVID-19's racial and economic inequities. The evidence shows a safety net under the most vulnerable protects us all.

November 13, 2020
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By:
  • Abraar Karan,
  • Ranu Dhillon,
  • and 2 more
Health care costs — including for things such as an insulin kit, for instance — can be catastrophically high for millions of Americans, even those with health insurance, a study finds.

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  • Health

Despite ACA Coverage Gains, Millions Still Suffer 'Catastrophic' Health Care Costs

The president-elect has vowed to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, which gave millions of Americans health insurance. But many insured people still struggle to pay for health care, research finds.

November 12, 2020
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By:
  • Kristen Kendrick
President-elect Joe Biden's plan to lower the eligibility age for Medicare is popular among voters but is expected to face strong opposition on Capitol Hill.

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  • Health

Biden Wants To Lower Medicare Eligibility Age To 60, But Hospitals Push Back

Hospitals, a powerful political force in health care, fear lowering the eligibility age for Medicare will cost them billions of dollars because federal reimbursements are less than private insurance.

November 12, 2020
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By:
  • Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News
Joe Biden rallied supporters Wednesday, Nov. 4, in Wilmington, Del. Though he is now U.S. president-elect, Biden will have to await outcomes of January run-off races in the Senate to know much support he's likely to get there for his health care agenda.

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  • Health

What Biden's Election Means For U.S. Health Care And Public Health

The Trump administration has been marked by a scaled-back federal investment and involvement in U.S. health care. Biden's team has plans to change that — even if Republicans retain Senate control.

November 09, 2020
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Health care activists rallied in front of the U.S. Capitol on March 22, 2017, to protest Republican efforts that would have dismantled the Affordable Care Act and capped federal payments for Medicaid patients. The Republican congressional bills, part of the party's "repeal and replace" push in 2017, were eventually defeated.

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  • Health

Medicaid's Future Hinges On Who Wins The White House

The Trump administration has given states ways to restrict spending on the government insurance program for low-income Americans. A Biden administration would expand Medicaid coverage.

November 03, 2020
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By:
  • Blake Farmer
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's first opportunity to weigh in on abortion and contraception could come as early as this week, as the high court decides whether to take up a Mississippi case.

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  • Health

How An Abortion Fight In Supreme Court Could Threaten Birth Control, Too

In talk of the impact Amy Coney Barrett could have on abortion rights, many people overlook related cases that might be in play, including the right to birth control that the court recognized in 1965.

November 03, 2020
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By:
  • Julie Rovner
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