67% of patients worry about receiving an unexpected, unaffordable medical bill. Not only do Americans lack price transparency when it comes to our care, we also struggle to find help to pay our medical bills. Get tips on dealing with surprise medical bills! […]
A restructured Healthy California Campaign is preparing for a politically active 2019 and beyond, undaunted by the failure to pass 2016’s Healthy California Act. THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS IS ALWAYS THE HARDEST It may be hard to believe but health care has been […]
The California Medicare for All Movement backed Gavin Newsom all the way. Will they feel betrayed if he pursues a multi-year path to get there rather than immediately implementing single-payer ? Samantha Young, syoung@kff.org, KHN Californians on Tuesday elected a governor who campaigned for a […]
Empowered by voters outraged over Republican attempts to chip away at the law’s protections for the sick, Democrats owe much of their midterm takeback to health care issues. Emmarie Huetteman, KHN For the first time since passing the Affordable Care Act, Democrats will soon control […]
Steven Findlay, KHN As a breast cancer survivor, Donna Catanuchi said she knows she can’t go without health insurance. But her monthly premium of $855 was too high to afford. “It was my biggest expense and killing me,” said Catanuchi, 58, of Mullica Hill, N.J. […]
Fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged these claims. Health insurance analyst Linda Blumberg of the Urban Institute told PolitiFact that suggesting Medicare-for-all would disrupt current enrollees’ coverage is a “horrible mischaracterization of the proposal.” Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” column noted that a leading […]
Her Stanford-affiliated doctor had warned her that the extensive allergy skin-patch testing she needed might be expensive, Winston said, but she wasn’t too worried. After all, Stanford was an in-network provider for her insurer — and her insurance, one of her benefits as an employee […]
Newsom’s backing for government-run, universal coverage has often been similarly bold, but other times it has been more muted, prompting conservatives to call him too liberal and liberals to label him too skittish. That dichotomy is likely a reflection of the political challenges he will […]
That gives politicians and voters a few years to decide what they mean and what they want when they say they support Medicare-for-all or single-payer health care. For now, it’s hard to read too much into promises. Elisabeth Rosenthal and Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News […]