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Kaiser Health News

Nonprofit News Organization

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

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Florida May Get Medicaid Expansion, Just by Calling it Something Else
The plan, called A Healthy Florida Works, offers an alternative to the ACA model while proposing a politically viable path for Florida’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives to extend coverage to more residents.
December 04, 2014
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Wellness Programs Under Attack
Do it or else. Increasingly, that’s the approach taken by employers who are offering financial incentives for workers to take part in wellness programs that incorporate screenings that measure blood pressure, cholesterol and body mass index, among other things.
December 03, 2014
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ACA Would Likely Unravel If Supreme Court Strikes Federal Exchange Subsidies
Legal scholars say the decision could deal a potentially lethal blow to the law by undermining the government-run insurance marketplaces that are its backbone, as well as the mandate requiring most Americans to carry coverage.
December 02, 2014
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Increased Competition Helps Keep Premiums Down in Federal Health Exchange
A surge in health insurer competition appears to be helping restrain premium increases in hundreds of counties next year, with prices dropping in many places where newcomers are offering the least expensive plans, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of federal premium records.
December 02, 2014
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California’s Managed Care Program for Elderly Poor Doesn't Work so Well
Low-income old people are experiencing confusion and frustration after the state tried to move almost 500,000 seniors and disabled people automatically into managed care.
November 20, 2014
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Obesity-Counseling Benefit in Medicare Mostly Ignored
Less than 1 percent of the programs 50 million beneficiaries have used the benefit so far. Experts blame the government’s failure to promote the program, rules that limit where and when patients can go for counseling as well as the low fees for providers.
November 20, 2014
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Insurance Exchanges Launch with Few Glitches
A Los Angeles furniture store worker who had never had health insurance enrolled in a plan for $75 a month that will cover both him and his son.
November 17, 2014
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Multi-State Companies Face Problems with Small Business Exchanges
Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP, is scheduled to go live Nov. 15. But SHOP plans will be organized by state — posing an additional challenge to small employers with workers who live or work in different states.
November 14, 2014
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Idaho: The Only Red State to Launch Its Own Health Exchange
Idaho will be one of a dozen states, along with Washington, D.C., to run its own online marketplace this year — and the only one whose state government is completely controlled by Republicans.
November 12, 2014
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How Much Does That Health Care Procedure Really Cost?
Thanks to a law enacted in October, Massachusetts health insurers have to make all their prices public – in advance.
November 06, 2014
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