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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 | 11:44 am | June 11, 2015
It will be up to state officials and Congress to help consumers who can’t afford health insurance if the Supreme Court strikes down health law subsidies for millions of Americans, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Wednesday.
By Kaiser Health News | 11:22 am | June 09, 2015
That promise of savings has a lot of health care specialists taking a harder look at predictive computer formulas.
By Kaiser Health News | 03:38 pm | June 03, 2015
More than 1.3 million Floridians received an average subsidy of $294 a month in March to reduce their premiums, according to the new data.
By Kaiser Health News | 02:29 pm | June 03, 2015
California is asking the federal government for permission to use Medicaid money to help put the most medically fragile homeless people in housing.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:08 am | June 02, 2015
The company last year lost thousands of customers to the health law's online exchanges where consumers shop directly for plans and find out if they qualify for subsidies.
By Kaiser Health News | 11:57 am | May 29, 2015
Family caregivers can receive grief and loss counseling for up to a year following the beneficiary's death.
By Kaiser Health News | 11:00 am | May 28, 2015
Trend has driven up stock prices of the largest publicly traded travel-nurses companies.
By Kaiser Health News | 10:40 am | May 28, 2015
Nearly one American in three with private health insurance got a surprise medical bill in the past two years.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:30 am | May 26, 2015
While it's clear that second opinions can help individual patients make better medical decisions, there's little hard data showing that second opinions lead to better health results overall.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:53 am | May 22, 2015
The Urban Institute says expansion of Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes over the poverty line was key to reducing the uninsured rate among 50- to 64-year-olds from nearly 12 to 8 percent in 2014.