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Kaiser Health News

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Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news organization committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics.

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California Leads Rethinking of Addiction Treatment for the Poor
Through what’s known as a drug waiver, state officials will have new spending flexibility as they try to improve outcomes and reduce social and financial costs of people with substance abuse disorders.
December 11, 2015
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What Cities Have the Worst STD Problems? LMGTFY (Let Me Google That For You.)
Researchers can mine Google data to identify searched phrases that spiked during previous upticks in a particular disease. Then, they measure the frequency of those searches in real time to estimate the number of emerging cases.
December 11, 2015
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The County Using Churches to Improve Mental Health Care
Because of the importance of churches in African-American communities, Alameda County has focused specifically on churches, inviting religious leaders to discussions about mental health and funding workshops to help congregants reach out to one another.
December 08, 2015
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What Happens If Kentucky Ends Its State-Run Obamacare Exchange?
Gov.-elect Matt Bevin’s plan to end Kynect has brought a strong rebuke from Obamacare advocates and the outgoing governor, but it’s also revived questions about whether the states or the federal government are best positioned to run the marketplaces.
December 03, 2015
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Unreliable Online Tools Make Medical Comparison Shopping a Problem
Several states mandate public reporting of price information, but online cost estimators offered through insurance company are often inaccurate.
December 02, 2015
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Why Colorado's Obamacare Co-Op Is Falling, and Connecticut's Isn't
Many co-op plans were priced low, and customers poured in. But these new customers had high health costs, so the co-ops had to start paying a lot of bills. The math didn’t add up.
December 01, 2015
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After California, Assisted Suicide Group Plans for More State Fights
Since Gov. Jerry Brown signed California’s end-of-life options bill last month, a new chapter is starting for Compassion & Choices, a Denver-based nonprofit that led the campaign for the measure and has pushed for such laws for nearly 19 years. California is the fifth state, and largest by far, to allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to patients who want to end their lives in their last stages of terminal illnesses.
November 23, 2015
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Half of Hepatitis C Drug Requests Are Denied by Medicaid
Researches found insurers denied 16 percent of prescriptions for expensive drugs like Sovaldi, Harvoni and Viekira Pak, the drugs. The proportion of Medicaid denials, however, was 46 percent.
November 23, 2015
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Why Many States Now Have Stem Cell Research Programs
Three after George W. Bush restricted the use of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, California started its own multi-billion dollar stem cell program. Today at least seven states offer stem cell research funding or other incentives to local scientists and industry.
November 09, 2015
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Small Businesses Don't Want SHOP Exchange for Health Insurance
About 85,000 people, from 11,000 small businesses, have coverage through the online marketplace known as the Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP. That’s less than 1 percent of people with coverage in the U.S.
November 06, 2015
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