Imagine this: Your elderly mother, who has dementia, is in a nursing home and COVID-19 vaccines are due to arrive in a week or two. You think she should be vaccinated, having heard the vaccine is effective in generating an immune response in older adults. Your brother disagrees. He worries that development of the vaccine was rushed and doesn’t want […]
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Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. COVID-19 was the dominant — but not the only — health policy story of 2020. In this special year-in-review episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” podcast, panelists look back at some of the biggest non-coronavirus stories. Those included Supreme Court cases on the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid work requirements and […]
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Even with insurance, Matthew Fentress faced a medical bill of more than $10,000 after a heart operation. A cook at a senior living community in Kentucky, he figured he could never pay what he owed — until a stranger who lives 2,000 miles away stepped in to help. “The system still failed me,” said Fentress, 31. “It was humanity that […]
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To make ends meet, Martha Tapia works 64 hours a week at two Orange County, California, nursing homes. She is one of thousands of certified nursing assistants who perform the intimate and physical work of bathing, dressing and feeding the nation’s fragile elderly. “We do everything for them. Everything you do for yourself, you have to do for the residents,” […]
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The Big News It was a short work week for those still able to work, but there was a considerable amount of health care news. That hasn’t changed. The story that probably got the most attention was that the death toll in the United States from COVID-19 passed 100,000 people. It can be hard to get a handle on what […]
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SACRAMENTO — California Democratic lawmakers so far have failed to convince Gov. Gavin Newsom that the state can afford to spend an estimated $2.6 billion a year to expand its Medicaid program to all unauthorized immigrants. Now, they’re trying a new strategy. Rather than working independently, a fiercely liberal state senator from Los Angeles and a moderate Assembly member from […]
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When it’s cold out, our ideal mornings are filled with warm cinnamon buns fresh from the oven, savory breakfast burritos, and steaming hot lattes that keep us cozy from the inside out. Unfortunately, this dream breakfast would also make us want to immediately crawl back in bed so we can hibernate while we digest. That’s why balance is important, and […]
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Spray, ronchas, picazón. Es temporada de mosquitos. En un año normal, el departamento de salud del condado de Delaware, en Ohio, ya habría colocado más de 90 trampas por semana: cubos de agua estancada con redes diseñadas para atrapar a los pequeños insectos. Pero este año, how to buy advair nz no prescription por COVID-19, los mosquitos volarán libres. Según […]
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Over the past month, Dr. Richard Besdine and his wife have been discussing whether to see family and friends indoors this fall and winter. He thinks they should, so long as people have been taking strict precautions during the coronavirus pandemic. She’s not convinced it’s safe, given the heightened risk of viral transmission in indoor spaces. Both are well positioned […]
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Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Five days after the election was called for President-elect Joe Biden, President Donald Trump has not conceded — and instead ordered his administration not to begin the transition of power. That could have serious ramifications for health care, particularly as nearly every state is experiencing a spike in COVID-19 […]
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