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2017年12月19日 · Across the country, trash incinerators disproportionately overburden majority-Black and -Hispanic communities. Though the number of incinerators has declined nationwide since the 1980s, Florida offers financial incentives to waste management companies that expand existing facilities or build new ones.
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In these dire times for the news industry, the birth of a news organization is a rare bright spot. We hope KFF Health News will make a vital contribution by covering health care policy and politics, as well as trends in the industry and delivery of care. With …
Employers Press Congress To Cement Health Price Transparency …
2024年12月20日 · It seems simple: Require hospitals and insurers to post their negotiated prices for most health care services and — bingo — competition follows, yielding lower costs for consumers. This story also ran on NPR. It can be republished for free. But nearly four years after the first Trump ...
‘Bill of the Month’: The Series That Dissects and Slashes Medical Bills
2024年12月20日 · Over 6½ years ago, KFF Health News and NPR kicked off “Bill of the Month,” a crowdsourced investigation highlighting the impact of medical bills on patients. This story also ran on NPR. It can be republished for free. The goal was to understand how the U.S. health care system generates outsize ...
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KFF Health News Leadership. Alex Wayne, Executive Editor, previously worked for Bloomberg News, where he led coverage of the Joe Biden and Donald Trump presidencies and reported on health care policy, including the development of the Affordable Care Act.In 2020, he helped manage and edit articles about the coronavirus’ infiltration of Trump’s White House that won …
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2024年12月19日 · KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': End-of-Year Chaos on Capitol Hill. December 19, 2024 Podcast Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate successfully negotiated an enormous end-of-Congress health package, including bipartisan efforts to address prescription drug prices — only to see it blown up at the last minute after Elon Musk and …
Community Health Workers Spread Across the US, Even in Rural …
2024年11月6日 · The programs are often based at hospital systems or community health centers. The workers have a median pay of $23 an hour, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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2024年12月20日 · KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': End-of-Year Chaos on Capitol Hill. December 19, 2024 Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate successfully negotiated an enormous end-of-Congress health package, including bipartisan efforts to address prescription drug prices — only to see it blown up at the last minute after Elon Musk and …
The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients
2024年3月27日 · Ganguli is the author of a new study showing that Medicare patients spend about three weeks a year having medical tests, visiting doctors, undergoing treatments or medical procedures, seeking care in emergency rooms, or spending time in the hospital or rehabilitation facilities. (The data is from 2019, before the covid pandemic disrupted care patterns.