Daily Edition for Friday, June 23, 2023
How a year without Roe has impacted California and the U.S. Also in the news: Hospital rankings, covid, flu, the drug crisis, and more.
Listen: Potential Hospital Bailout Under Fire, as Information Gap Threatens Medi-Cal Renewals
By Bernard J. Wolfson and Samantha Young and Stephanie O'Neill Patison
California Healthline journalists discuss the need to update personal information to maintain Medi-Cal coverage, why health finance experts caution against a sweeping hospital industry bailout, and more recent reporting.
Malpractice Lawsuits Over Denied Abortion Care May Be on the Horizon
By Harris Meyer
Physicians and attorneys say it’s a question of when — not if — a pregnant person dies from lack of care in a state with an abortion ban, potentially setting the stage for a malpractice lawsuit that could pressure providers to reconsider delaying or denying care.
What’s It Really Like to Be HHS Secretary? Three Who’ve Done It Spill the Beans
By Julie Rovner and Emmarie Huetteman
Three secretaries of Health and Human Services, who served under Presidents Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Barack Obama, gathered this week for a rare, candid conversation hosted by the Aspen Ideas Festival and KFF Health News’ “What the Health?” about the experience of being the nation’s top health official.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Live From Aspen: Three HHS Secretaries on What the Job Is Really Like
In this special episode of KFF Health News’ “What the Health?” host and chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner leads a rare conversation with the current and two former secretaries of Health and Human Services. Taped before a live audience at Aspen Ideas: Health, part of the Aspen Ideas Festival, in Aspen, Colorado, Secretary Xavier Becerra […]
Daily Edition for Thursday, June 22, 2023
Mental health, hospital executive pay, health workers, homelessness, mpox, RSV vaccines, fentanyl, and more are in the news.
Black, Rural Southern Women at Gravest Risk From Pregnancy Miss Out on Maternal Health Aid
By Sarah Jane Tribble
A federal program meant to reduce maternal and infant mortality in rural areas isn’t reaching Black women who are most likely to die from pregnancy-related causes.
Advocates Call for 911 Changes. Police Have Mixed Feelings.
By Molly Castle Work
Though most California counties are experimenting with dispatching health professionals rather than law enforcement to respond to people experiencing mental health crises, powerful police unions fear defunding.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Mental health care plan, hospital rankings, food banks, blood donations, covid origins, abortion access, and more are in the news.
Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds
By Arthur Allen
A quality-control crisis at an Indian pharmaceutical factory has left doctors and their patients with impossible choices as cheap, effective, generic cancer drugs go out of stock.
