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| Jul 26, 2026 | Colorado was the first state to cap a drug’s price – then a federal court stepped in (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Shweta Kumar
Colorado is one of a handful of states with a review board for drug prices and one of only four with a board empowered to set upper limits on what state agencies, insurers and other... |
| May 8, 2026 | AHA pushes back on Families USA report | The AHA shared the following statement with the media in response to a report released May 7 by Families USA.
“This report is long on rhetoric and short on reality. Hospitals and health systems are the backbone of care in every community, o... |
| Apr 8, 2026 | Televero Behavioral Health Celebrates Medicaid Awareness Month With a Simple Message: Everyone Deserves Care | Televero Behavioral Health
As one in five Americans relies on Medicaid for health coverage, Televero reaffirms its commitment to accepting all insurance plans, including Medicaid
Medicaid exists because people deserve care regardless of wha... |
| Feb 12, 2026 | When health insurance costs more than the mortgage | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Renuka Rayasam, KFF Health News
When Noah Hulsman, who owns a skate shop in Louisville, Kentucky, learned he no longer qualified for federal subsidies to help him pay for his “gold” Affordable C... |
| Nov 14, 2025 | As health companies get bigger, so do the bills. It’s unclear if Trump’s team will intervene | Elisabeth Rosenthal, KFF Health News
A cancer patient might live in a town with four oncology groups, but only one accepts his insurance — the one owned by his insurer. A young couple could see huge bills after their child is born, because ... |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Chronically ill? In Kennedy’s view, it might be your own fault | He said at a news conference on April 16 that autism is preventable and that rates are rising because of toxic substances in the environment, despite a lack of evidence there is any link.
“These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll ne... |
| May 23, 2024 | Hospital acquisitions draw House's attention | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Lawmakers on two House committees signaled Thursday that they could use a year-end health deal to address hospital acquisitions of independent physician practices, which they contend are driving up he... |
| May 22, 2024 | Patent reform could be the next big move to help bring down drug prices | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
After pitched battles over Medicare drug price negotiations, Congress may be pivoting to more bipartisan ground: overhaul of the patent system that allows brand-name drugs to delay competition for yea... |
| May 20, 2024 | Senate's new controversial patent reform target | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Sens. Chris Coons and Thom Tillis are pushing a pair of bills that they say are essential to overhauling the patent process, including for drugs and genomics, but that critics contend could wind up he... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Biden plan to reduce Medicaid appointment wait times faces pushback | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The Biden administration wants to make sure Medicaid enrollees don't have to wait too long to see a doctor, but state officials and health insurers that administer the program argue a new plan to spee... |
| Feb 16, 2024 | National Politics | In fight over Medicare payments, the hospital lobby shows its strength | Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News, Colleen DeGuzman | KFF Health News (TNS)
In the battle to control health care costs, hospitals are deploying their political power to protect their bottom lines.
The point of contention: For decades, Medicare... |
| Jul 28, 2023 | Many immigrants are ineligible for important U.S. maternal health initiatives | In the U.S., about 16% of Black birthing people are immigrants. But even as the federal government and states take steps to improve national maternal health, particularly among Black birthing parents, many immigrant parents are left out of ... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | Ensuring food security and health beyond the Covid-19 public health emergency | Expansions to social safety net programs during Covid-19 have been essential for low-income Americans hit hard by the pandemic. But the stabilizing impact of these expansions will be at risk when the federal Covid-19 Public Health Emergency... |
| Jun 20, 2022 | U.S. health care needs to be fixed. Look to the LGBTQ+ community to do it | The brewing monkeypox outbreak that’s raising health alarms in the LGBTQ+ community comes on the heels of the still-mysterious long Covid being compared to HIV, with strikingly similar implications.
It all brings back disquieting memories o... |
| May 26, 2022 | Fourteen Reasons to Let The Expanded Obamacare Subsidies Expire | In early 2021, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act—a massive fiscal package that has wasted enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars and caused inflation to soar to the highest levels in the past 40 years. One pro... |
| Jan 29, 2021 | If Haven couldn't disrupt the healthcare system, can anyone? | The combined resources of Amazon, JP Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway still couldn't move the needle
There’s a frightening question we have to ask about our healthcare system: can we actually stem the cost of healthcare in this country?
The go... |
| Nov 6, 2020 | Tips to help navigate health benefits open enrollment amid COVID-19 | (BPT) - The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted people nationwide to live differently, including new challenges when it comes to navigating the health system and accessing care.
Whether people are enrolling in a health plan offered through an em... |
| Oct 5, 2020 | Ron Rivera’s Call For Universal Healthcare Sends Important Social Justice Message | Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera says his battle with cancer has shown him why every ... [+] American should receive quality healthcare. (Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Sep 18, 2020 | Healthcare in Politics Conference - 90 minute Q&A session podcast | #InventHealth
Vator · Healthcare in Politics - 90 Mins Q&A session
This week we started the discussion on Healthcare in Politics with Esther Dyson (Executive Founder, Wellville; Angel investor), Sally Pipes (President and CEO, Pacific R... |
| Sep 14, 2020 | Healthcare experts: schools should open for in-person sessions | Register for our main Healthcare in Politics event on October 7
Last week, Vator, UCSF Health Hub and HP held a mini event in anticipation of our Healthcare in Politics event in October (register here!), where we some of the panelists got t... |
| Sep 9, 2020 | Amber Hewitt on which candidate has the best policies to address inequities in healthcare | Hewitt will be a part of Vator's Healthcare in Politics salon on Sept 9 and October 7
With the election right around the corner Vator and HP will be hosting their latest salon on October 7, called Healthcare in Politics (register for the ev... |
| May 22, 2019 | Vaccinations will take a hit if the Trump administration topples the Affordable Care Act | In the midst of the country’s worst measles outbreak in 25 years, President Trump made an abrupt about-face on vaccinations.
Before becoming president, he had spread vaccination fears by peddling anti-vaccine tropes on Twitter and meeting w... |
| Jan 4, 2019 | Behavioral health innovation two years later: Why is adoption taking so long? | |
| Jul 25, 2018 | People Are Scared to Use Health Safety Nets Because of ICE | Federal safety net programs such as food stamps are able to reduce the number of children in poverty and help adults lead healthier lives. However, many people are too terrified to sign up for them because they fear the US Immigration and C... |
| Jan 8, 2018 | In states that didn’t expand Medicaid, hospital closures have spiked
Rural Hospital Closures: 2005 – 2016 | In recent years Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion has created a financial fault line in American health care. Hospitals in states that enacted the expansion got a wave of newly insured patients, while those in states that rejected it were left... |
| Dec 8, 2017 | Turmoil with ACA individual insurance marketplace abounds under Trump administration | Under the market-based system set up by the ACA, individuals are encouraged to “shop around” each year to find insurance that better suits medical needs and income. In fact — like Weston, a trade association executive in Sulphur, Okla. — th... |
| Jan 24, 2016 | How will new cancer treatment care guides help patients navigate the healthcare system? | For many patients, getting information on various treatment options for a medical condition isn’t hard. Finding out which ones are the best bets for the money can be more difficult.
A new collaboration between the consumers group Families U... |
| Apr 22, 2014 | Per Scholas: A+ certification program opens 4th center in Silver Spring | An ongoing debate in Baltimore city questions the value of equipping high school students with A+ and other IT certifications over teaching them how to code. The first is a basic qualification that can be helpful in being hired in tradition... |
| Apr 14, 2014 | Patients often win if they appeal a denied health claim | “I had actually gotten to a place where I had fallen asleep while driving a vehicle,” Simek says. “That’s something that would normally have never ever happened to me.”
Simek’s doctor recommended he go to a lab to undergo another sleep stud... |
| Nov 21, 2013 | Less than a percent of Americans at risk of losing individual market plan & paying more for coverage | Families USA lobbied for the ACA and remains in support of the law.
From the organization’s press release:
According to the Families USA report, more than 10.8 million of the people with individual health coverage today are in households wi... |
| Jul 3, 2013 | Groups, indviduals react quickly to delay in ACA employer mandate | James A. Klein, president of the American Benefits Council, which represents private employers: “We applaud the Obama Administration’s decision to delay until 2015 employers’ reporting requirements, and potential employer penalty payments u... |
| Apr 7, 2013 | Advocates say feds not spending enough on promoting federal insurance exchanges | But six months before the process begins, questions are mounting about the scope and adequacy of efforts to reach out to consumers – especially in the 33 states that defaulted to the federal government to run their marketplaces, also called... |
| Jul 21, 2010 | 86% of Ohio small businesses eligible for health reform tax credits | The maximum tax credit equals 35 percent of the cost of health coverage. Employers with 10 or fewer workers who earn an average wage of less than $25,000 are eligible for it. As the number of employees and their average wages rise, the tax ... |
| Sep 18, 2009 | Health care premiums for Ohio families outpace earnings – MedCity Morning Read, Sept. 18, 2009 | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| Jul 16, 2009 | Harry and Louise, Part 3 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Harry and Louise — the television advertisement couple credited with helping to defeat health care reform during the Clinton era — are back … again.
The middle-aged couple worried about friends’ lack of health care cove... |
| May 29, 2009 | Keep private insurers in overhauled health care system, CBO suggests — MedCity morning read, May 29, 2009 | The CBO took a different view of the Clinton-era health care reform, the Post said. Then, the office concluded a mandate requiring employers and employees to pay into a national health insurance system would constitute a form of taxation — ... |
| Feb 12, 2009 | Ohio anti-obesity plan would reward healthy behavior, rely on farmers markets | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| Feb 6, 2009 | Report: Many workers who lose jobs also lose health insurance | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| Missouri takes months to process Medicaid applications — longer than law allows | Aneka French applied for Medicaid in October, not long after Missouri became the 38th state to expand eligibility for the program.
But her application sat for months in a backlog with tens of thousands of others. While she waited, French, 4... |
| Groups, indviduals react quickly to delay in ACA employer mandate | Opponents of the federal health law, especially business groups and conservatives, were quick to praise the decision by the Obama administration to delay enforcing the employer mandate provision by one year, until 2015. Some supporters of t... |
| Less than a percent of Americans at risk of losing individual market plan & paying more for coverage | Though it’s upsetting that patients on individual market plans are opening mailboxes to find termination letters from insurers, a new report from Families USA puts the scope of those letters into perspective. Less than 1 percent of the non-... |
| How will new cancer treatment care guides help patients navigate the healthcare system? | For many patients, getting information on various treatment options for a medical condition isn’t hard. Finding out which ones are the best bets for the money can be more difficult.
A new collaboration between the consumers group Families U... |
| Report: Many workers who lose jobs also lose health insurance | Slightly more than half of modest-income Ohioans who don’t have jobs also don’t have health care insurance, according to an analysis commissioned by Families USA, the consumer health care advocate.
Fifty-three percent of Ohio’s 218,834 ... |
| Patients often win if they appeal a denied health claim | SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal rules ensure that none of the millions of people who signed up for Obamacare can be denied insurance — but there is no guarantee that all health services will be covered.
To help make sure a patient’s claims are... |
| 86% of Ohio small businesses eligible for health reform tax credits | About 86 percent of Ohio’s small businesses will be eligible for a tax credit that’s aimed at helping employers pay for their workers’ health insurance coverage, according to a report from a left-leaning consumer group.
The catch is, a comp... |
| Ohio anti-obesity plan would reward healthy behavior, rely on farmers markets | Image via Wikipedia
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s five-year plan to fight obesity would put locally made foods in vending machines, nearly quadruple the number of farmers’ markets that accept food stamps, expand breastfeeding-friendly policies in... |
| Health care premiums for Ohio families outpace earnings – MedCity Morning Read, Sept. 18, 2009 | WASHINGTON, D.C. – From 2000 to 2009, family health care premiums in Ohio rose about seven times faster than workers’ earnings, according to a report (pdf) released Thursday by Families USA, a nonprofit organization that advocates for aff... |
| Turmoil with ACA individual insurance marketplace abounds under Trump administration | Cyndee Weston can barely remember the last time she didn’t have to switch health plans during an Affordable Care Act sign-up season. By her count, she has been on five plans in five years.
Every fall, after she has spent months figuring out... |
| Advocates say feds not spending enough on promoting federal insurance exchanges | When President Lyndon B. Johnson wanted to enroll seniors for the new Medicare program he had just signed into law, the story goes that his administration sent out workers on dog sleds to reach people in the remote Alaskan tundra.
“The Fore... |
| Keep private insurers in overhauled health care system, CBO suggests — MedCity morning read, May 29, 2009 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration could dodge a bullet that felled the Clinton administration’s attempt at health care reform by keeping an active and independent role for private insurers in the overhauled system, according to t... |
