Health Care Costs

Letters to the Editor is a periodic Kaiser Health News feature. KHN welcomes all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. On Building Empathy For Patients As a nurse practitioner for 18 years and someone who has a chronic illness, I am intimately aware of the issues […]

What do we know about the drug industry’s agenda to quiet the drumbeat of cost control and transparency proposals? How will the industry target its efforts? Will the battles take place at the state level?  KHN senior correspondent Jay Hancock discussed these issues on Facebook Live Wednesday. ( function() { var func = function() { […]

Use Our Content This Kaiser Health News story can be republished for free (details). More Stories To Republish As the midterm elections approach, health care ranks as the top issue, mentioned more frequently among voters nationwide than among those living in areas with competitive races, a new poll finds. In areas with competitive congressional or […]

Use Our Content This Kaiser Health News story can be republished for free (details). More Stories To Republish An announcement Tuesday by three of the nation’s corporate titans — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co. — that they are joining forces to address the high costs of employee health care has stirred the […]

Letters to the Editor is a periodic Kaiser Health News feature. KHN welcomes all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. Unsolicited Advice For Corporate Titans I am a retired health care consultant who has been involved in health care financing and delivery since 1973. I read […]

This story also ran on The Washington Post. This story can be republished for free (details). Laura Cameron, then three months pregnant, tripped and fell in a parking lot and landed in the emergency room last May — her blood pressure was low and she was scared and in pain. She was flat on her […]

Use Our Content This Kaiser Health News story can be republished for free (details). More Stories To Republish SACRAMENTO, Calif. – In the age of Black Panther, Thor and Captain America, California’s health insurance plans bring you … A giant, androgynous red heart. The health insurers debuted their bubbly superhero Tuesday in front of California’s […]

This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished for free (details). Laurie Cook went shopping recently for a mammogram near her home in New Hampshire. Using an online tool provided through her insurer, she plugged in her ZIP code. Up popped facilities in her network, each with an incentive amount she […]

SOBRE NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL Noticias en español es una sección de KFF Health News que contiene traducciones de artículos de gran interés para la comunidad hispanohablante, y contenido original enfocado en la población hispana que vive en los Estados Unidos. Use Nuestro Contenido Este contenido puede usarse de manera gratuita (detalles). Laurie Cook fue de […]

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). YUBA CITY, Calif. — When Landon Morris was diagnosed with hemophilia shortly after birth, his mother, Jessica Morris, was devastated. “It was like having your dreams — all the dreams you imagined for your child — just kind of disappear,” she […]