Daily Edition for Friday, January 27, 2023
Friday’s roundup covers Medicaid, prison health, CARE Court, covid vaccines and treatments, ransomware, CBD regulation, housing, and more.
FDA Experts Are Still Puzzled Over Who Should Get Which Covid Shots and When
By Arthur Allen
A single booster seems to prevent death and hospitalization in most people, but protection from the current vaccines wanes within months. FDA experts say they need to know more from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to decide the best long-term strategy.
Did Your Health Plan Rip Off Medicare?
By Fred Schulte
KHN has released never-before-seen details of federal audits as the government weighs action against dozens of Medicare Advantage plans.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Part I: The State of the Abortion Debate 50 Years After ‘Roe’
In Part I of this special two-part episode, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Sarah Varney of KHN join KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss how the abortion debate has evolved since the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022, and what might be the flashpoints for 2023. Also in this episode, Rovner interviews Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, about changing reproductive policies in the states.
Daily Edition for Thursday, January 26, 2023
Today’s roundup covers Medi-Cal contracts, mass shootings, doctors spreading misinfo, covid vaccines, heart health, abortion laws, and more.
Florida Gov. DeSantis Falsely Claims Bivalent Booster Boosts Chances of Covid Infection
By Yacob Reyes, PolitiFact
Experts say the Florida governor’s conclusion could not be drawn from the study he cited, adding that the research focused on health care workers, who are likelier to be exposed to covid and more likely to be vaccinated. Those findings should not be applied to the general public.
California’s Resolve Questioned After It Grants Medi-Cal Contract Concessions
By Bernard J. Wolfson and Samantha Young
After the Department of Health Care Services canceled Medi-Cal contract awards under pressure from major insurers, some consumer advocates question the administration’s willpower to improve care in the safety-net program.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Today’s roundup covers dying at home, aftermath of the mass shootings, covid vaccines, treatments and misinfo, Medicare, housing, and more.
Unmet Needs: Critics Cite Failures in Health Care for Vulnerable Foster Children
By Andy Miller and Rebecca Grapevine
More states are moving to specialized managed-care contracts solely to handle medical and behavioral services for foster kids. But child advocates, foster parents, and even state officials say these and other care arrangements are shortchanging foster kids’ health needs.
