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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 | 10:13 am | June 09, 2017
Some oppose the law; many others, however, believe patients should have access to aid-in-dying but don't want to be involved themselves.
By Kaiser Health News | 12:18 pm | June 08, 2017
President Donald Trump's strategy to overhaul federal health law is threatening to upend the individual health insurance market with key policies.
By Kaiser Health News | 11:38 am | June 08, 2017
Pre-existing condition coverage proved life-changing, yet many are still priced out of coverage and view ACHA with disdain.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:53 am | June 08, 2017
Costs for prescription drugs have been rising faster than those for any other health segment, marked by high-profile cases like EpiPen and Daraprim.
By Kaiser Health News | 01:06 pm | June 07, 2017
Many of the 1.25 million Americans who live with Type 1 diabetes cheered the effort as an important first step in their fight against soaring costs.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:26 am | June 07, 2017
In some cases, insurers interrupt treatments that are already underway. In others, they deny it at the outset.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:17 am | June 07, 2017
Medicaid covered 45 percent of children and 16 percent of adults in small towns and rural areas in 2015, higher than in metropolitan areas.
By Kaiser Health News | 02:49 pm | June 06, 2017
The study found that receiving federal housing assistance increased people's likelihood of having health insurance and access to regular care
By Kaiser Health News | 10:31 am | June 06, 2017
People have until Sept. 30 to request a waiver of the usual penalty Medicare assesses when people delay signing up for Medicare's Part B.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:48 am | June 06, 2017
Roughly 300 health care systems, children's hospitals and federally qualified health centers have set up these programs.