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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 | 12:06 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 | 09:26 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 | 09:17 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 | 01:49 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 | 09:31 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 | 08:48 am | June 06, 2017
Roughly 300 health care systems, children's hospitals and federally qualified health centers have set up these programs.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:46 am | June 05, 2017
An estimated 1 in 9 Medicare beneficiaries are diagnosed with COPD, the third-leading cause of death in 2014.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:49 am | June 02, 2017
On any given day, 1 in 25 patients across the U.S. suffers from at least one infection acquired while they are in the hospital, CDC says.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:18 am | June 01, 2017
Analysis warned that fee-for-service and other provisions in the legislation would "strongly limit the state's ability to control costs."
By Kaiser Health News | 09:56 am | June 01, 2017
Poll says 49 percent of respondents said they have a favorable view of ACA, while 31 percent said they favored the GOP's American Health Care Act.