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Need to know more about āMedicare for All?ā Itās a top issue in the Democratic presidential primary campaign. This holiday week, we are rerunning our explainer on the subject. But first, KHNās āWhat the Health?ā host Julie Rovner talks to KHNās Shefali Luthra about how health played out in the first Democratic candidate debates last week.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
Though the candidates tended to agree on the end goal of universal coverage, differences emerged over how to get there.Ā
Despite what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio claimed during the first night of the presidential debates, universal health care in the Big Apple is still in the seeding stage.
Democratic presidential candidates disagreed on how to fix health care in their first debate Wednesday, although they all called for boosting insurance coverage and lowering prices. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is keeping health care in the news, too, with a new plan to make medical prices more available to the public. Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal, Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call and Anna Edney of Bloomberg News join KHNās Julie Rovner to discuss this, plus the latest in news about bipartisan progress on catch-all legislation to address āsurpriseā medical bills. Plus, Rovner interviews NPRās Jon Hamilton about the latest KHN-NPR āBill of the Monthā installment.
On the first of the Democratās two-night debate, only New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren offered full support for a single-payer system that would banish private health insurance.
Julie Rovner, the chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News, joins Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Alan Weil of Health Affairs at the Aspen Ideas: Health festival to discuss how consumersā values impact the politics surrounding the national debate on health care.
Thereās a lack of confidence in the number.
How big an issue will health really be in the 2020 election? Will the Republicans find their political footing on the issue? In this episode of KHNās āWhat the Health?ā Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times report from the Aspen Ideas: Health festival in Aspen, Colo. Joining them are Chris Jennings, who advised Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama on health policy, and Lanhee Chen, who advised GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
As the 2020 campaign season kicks off, both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden say theyāll cure cancer. If only it were that simple.
Nearly 9 in 10 Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents said it is very important for candidates to discuss health issues. But they are sharply divided among the goals of lowering costs, increasing access, protecting the Affordable Care Act or moving to a āMedicare for Allā plan, a poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation reported.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
While national business groups fight the single-payer concept, the founder and CEO of a large Pennsylvania picture frame manufacturer tries to convince other employers that itās the only way to control costs and fix the U.S. health system.
Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post join KHNās Julie Rovner to discuss the Trump administrationās efforts to curtail federally funded research using fetal tissue, the backlash from former Vice President Joe Bidenās support for the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment and how health policy intersects with both trade and immigration policy.
School psychologists provide the first line of treatment for children with mental health issues. Quantifying the shortage depends on whoās counting.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don't have to.
For our 100th episode, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Jen Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times and Sandhya Ramen of CQ Roll Call join KHNās Julie Rovner to take a deep dive into the abortion debate, discussing everything from the latest news to the history of the Supreme Courtās jurisprudence as well as how states are trying to further expand or restrict abortion rights and access. Also, Rovner interviews KHNās Lauren Weber about the latest āBill of the Monthā installment.
Reform has a cost. But the point of a health care system is to treat patients, not to buttress the economy.
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