Health Care Costs

KFF Health New correspondent Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez discussed the shortage of foster care homes in rural Nevada on The Nevada Independent’s “The Indy” on July 25. Click here to hear Orozco Rodriguez on “The Indy” Read Orozco Rodriguez’ “Foster Kids in Casino Hotels? It Happened in Rural Nevada Amid Widespread Foster Home Shortages” KFF Health […]

Thomas Greene had been experiencing pain in his right leg, a complication from diabetes, when doctors recommended a procedure to increase blood flow to the limb. Retired from a career as an electrician and HVAC technician, he had an outpatient procedure in April 2021 to alleviate his pain by dilating the clogged artery using a […]

SACRAMENTO, CA – Semanas después de que los legisladores demócratas obligaron al gobernador Gavin Newsom a cumplir una promesa de cuatro años para utilizar las multas fiscales de los no asegurados para aumentar los subsidios de salud de los californianos de bajos y medianos ingresos, los funcionarios de Covered California anunciaron que canalizarán ese dinero […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Weeks after Democratic lawmakers forced Gov. Gavin Newsom to make good on a four-year-old pledge to use tax penalty proceeds from fining the uninsured to increase health insurance subsidies for low- and middle-income Californians, Covered California officials announced they will funnel that money into reducing out-of-pocket spending for many enrollees struggling with […]

Forget “repeal and replace,” an oft-repeated Republican rallying cry against the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans have advanced a package of bills that could reduce health insurance costs for certain businesses and consumers, partly by rolling back some consumer protections. Rather than outright repeal, however, the subtler effort could allow more employers to bypass the […]

KFF Health News senior correspondent Sarah Varney discussed the lawsuit to block the “abortion trafficking” law in Idaho on KUOW’s “Soundside” on July 13. Click here to hear Varney on “Soundside” Click here to read Varney’s “Groups Sue to Overturn Idaho ‘Abortion Trafficking’ Law Targeting Teens” And on PBS NewsHour on July 20, Varney discussed […]

For Emily Boller, it was a $5,000 hospital bill for a simple case of pink eye that took four years to pay off. For Mary Curley, it was the threatening collection letters from a lab that arrived more than 2½ years later, just as her husband lost his job and the family was fighting to […]

Bridget Narsh’s son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to send him to Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility in Butner, North Carolina. The teen, who deals with autism and post-traumatic stress and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders, had started destroying furniture and running away from home. His mother […]

Hace pocos días, la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) aprobó Opill, el primer anticonceptivo oral diario que estará disponible sin receta en tiendas y en internet. Los defensores de la salud reproductiva celebraron esta histórica aprobación como un paso que puede ayudar a millones de personas a evitar embarazos no deseados, que ocurren casi […]

Last week, the FDA approved Opill, the first daily oral contraceptive that will be available for sale over the counter in stores as well as online. Reproductive health advocates hailed the groundbreaking approval as a step that can help millions of people avoid pregnancy, which is unintended nearly half the time in the United States. […]