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As Congress figures out the future of telehealth, we get a reality check from a top researcher about what this care has and has not delivered.
- Added: Jun 05, 2024
- Length: 15:21
As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.
- Added: May 22, 2024
- Length: 18:33
Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
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- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 17:20
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A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 19:17
With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 15:44
Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way h...
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 18:49
One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 22:59
Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shie...
- Added: Nov 15, 2023
- Length: 29:50
California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 16:55
A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 16:39
One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 15 states have effectively banned abortion. Dozens of clinics in those states have shut th...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 15:52
A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 16:32
The Affordable Care Act faces yet another in a long string of legal challenges. Last Thursday's ruling, by a conservative federal judge who has tar...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 14:07
We dig into three research papers to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.
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- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 16:55
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The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 24:21
One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive...
- Added: Feb 10, 2023
- Length: 17:45
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 20:23
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After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 18:07
Initial screenings for breast, lung, cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 14:24
How one hospital is scrambling to deal with a shortage of a critical drug, and what changes are needed to fix chronic problems with the U.S. medica...
- Added: Jun 16, 2022
- Length: 19:57
In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 04:00
The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 03:51
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.
- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 18:40
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.
- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 03:47
Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 18:14