Health Care Costs

Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). Three-quarters of the public — including a majority of Republicans — want the federal government to protect patients from being stuck with surprise medical invoices after they are unwittingly treated by doctors or medical facilities that are out of their insurance network, a poll […]

Julie Rovner Kaiser Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s Stories Rebecca Adams CQ Roll Call @RebeccaAdamsDC Read Rebecca’s Stories Kimberly Leonard Business Insider @leonardkl Read Kimberly’s Stories Alice Miranda Ollstein Politico @AliceOllstein Read Alice’s Stories A federal district judge in Oregon blocked new rules for the federal family planning program issued by the Trump administration and […]

Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). A Tennessee-based chain of pain clinics that abruptly shut down last summer faces five whistleblower lawsuits accusing it of defrauding Medicare and other health insurers by billing for hundreds of unnecessary urine drug tests and other dubious health services, newly unsealed court records show. […]

“California is leading the nation in holding drug companies accountable and fighting prescription drug prices.” Governor Gavin Newsom, April 17, 2019, in a news release   California regularly portrays itself as a national trendsetter on political issues, and Gov. Gavin Newsom is claiming that title on prescription drugs. This fact check was produced in partnership […]

“One out of 4 diabetes patients in our country cannot afford their insulin.” Kamala Harris on Monday, April 22, 2019, in a CNN town hall event High prescription drug prices are fast becoming a leading political topic, with medications like insulin emerging as a poster child for the issue. Nearly doubling in price from 2012 […]

Cuando los subsidios federales mejorados expiraron a fines de 2025, muchas personas que compraban su propio seguro de salud en los mercados estatales y federales vieron aumentar sus primas mensuales. Para reducir costos, muchos cambiaron a planes de salud con deducibles altos. Estos planes ofrecen pagos mensuales más bajos, pero los pacientes pueden enfrentar gastos […]

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Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). The first congressional hearing on a “Medicare-for-all” bill in at least a decade took place Tuesday, but without the usual phalanx of T-shirted supporters — or even the presidential candidates — who have been pushing the bill. That’s because the hearing took place not […]

use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). Progressive Democrats have rallied around “Medicare-for-all,” a single-payer health plan popularized by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Now, some of Washington’s official bean counters are trying to add a new framework around what it might look like. The picture they offer highlights just how complicated […]