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Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent news service and a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan healthcare policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

By Kaiser Health News | 10:29 am | December 05, 2016
A massive lobbying effort by 58 pharmaceutical companies, 24 device companies and 26 "biotech products and research" companies shaped the bill.
By Kaiser Health News | 08:26 am | December 02, 2016
Law has brought coverage to tens of thousands of previously uninsured shooting victims, often young African-American men, who missed follow-up care.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:39 am | December 01, 2016
Smooth transition is important for 20 million people who gained health insurance through law, Republicans don't want blame for lapses in coverage.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:22 am | December 01, 2016
Every older adult admitted to a hospital as an inpatient has the right to challenge a discharge if he or she feels unprepared to leave.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:09 am | December 01, 2016
Lawmakers will weigh the innovation center, funded through the health law with $10 billion for 2011 to 2019.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:55 am | November 30, 2016
Indiana's unique Medicaid expansion, which she helped create, was designed to appeal to conservatives.
By Kaiser Health News | 08:49 am | November 29, 2016
A number of other women's health benefits are at risk, including guaranteed coverage of maternity services on the individual insurance market.
By Kaiser Health News | 08:35 am | November 29, 2016
Heater-cooler device linked to sometimes deadly bacterial infection; FDA under scrutiny for handling of information tied to safety.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:17 am | November 28, 2016
What Pence did with Indiana's Medicaid program may place him in a conciliatory middle ground in the political battles to come over Obamacare's future.
By Kaiser Health News | 08:57 am | November 28, 2016
More than 1,455 lobbyists representing 400 companies, universities and other organizations pushed for or against a House version of a Cures bill this congressional cycle.