From KFF News Network – Their latest podcast, ‘An Arm And A Leg’, This week, In response to the high price of prescription drugs, “An Arm and a Leg” asked listeners to share their strategies for getting the medicine they need at prices they can manage.
From KFF News Network – Their latest podcast, ‘An Arm And A Leg’, This week, About 3 in 10 adults reported not taking their medicines as prescribed at some point between July 2022 and July 2023 because of the cost, according to a KFF survey. So, this year, “An Arm and a Leg” asked listeners: What strategies have you used when you’ve been struck by pharmacy sticker shock?
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, Speaking before a live audience on June 23 at Aspen Ideas: Health in Colorado, three former governors — one of whom also served as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services — discussed what it would take to make the nation’s health care system run more smoothly.
From KFF News Network – Their latest podcast, ‘An Arm And A Leg’, This week, What do the KGB and the former CEO of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have in common? Eugene Litvak. The Soviet intelligence agency and the children’s hospital have each separately looked to the Ukrainian émigré with a PhD in mathematics for help.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, After explicitly promising senators during his confirmation hearing that he would not interfere in scientific policy over which Americans should receive which vaccines, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week fired every member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices…
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, In this special episode of “KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’” national and local experts join host Julie Rovner for a live conversation at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual meeting in Los Angeles. This conversation was taped on Friday, May 30.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, After narrowly passing a budget resolution this spring foreshadowing major Medicaid cuts, Republicans in Congress are having trouble agreeing on specific ways to save billions of dollars from a pool of funding that pays for the program without cutting benefits on which millions of Americans rely.
Contagious Conversations is a podcast hosted and brought to you by the CDC Foundation. This episode is hosted by Dr. Judy Monroe, President and CEO of the CDC Foundation & the discussion is: Behind the Plate: Keeping Our Food Safe.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, The secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., contradicted his agency’s researchers recently with unsubstantiated or outright false claims about autism spectrum disorder and those with the condition. His public remarks were not the only recent example of Kennedy speaking against his employees;
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, A week into the reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services announced by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the scope of the staff cuts and program cutbacks is starting to become clear.
From KFF News Network – Their latest podcast, ‘An Arm And A Leg’, This week, The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14-year history. It issued rules barring medical debt from Americans’ credit reports and went after debt collectors who pressured customers to pay bills they didn’t owe.
From KFF Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, The second Trump presidency launched with a bang at the Department of Health and Human Services, where a traditional pause on public communications was expanded to an effective stoppage of scientific work, as health agencies were ordered to cancel meetings, travel, and efforts on outside publications.