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Innovation
Podcast: A Few Good Things from 2025 (Really)
In the states, there were some wins for healthcare access.
Payer
Shutdown Has Highlighted Washington's Retreat from Big Ideas on Healthcare
As health costs reach a crisis point, a yawning gulf exists between voters' desire for more aggressive action and the...
CFO
White House Calls This 9/11-Era Fund 'Wasteful.' Red and Blue States Rely on It.
The Hospital Preparedness Program has provided $2.2 billion to local governments to ready healthcare systems for public health emergencies.
CMO
LA Took Months to Sound Alarm After Two Babies Died in Whooping Cough Outbreak
Because infectious diseases spread exponentially, if officials don't alert the public quickly, they lose a key chance to prevent further...
Payer
Podcast: Happy Open Enrollment Eve!
Open enrollment for 2026 Affordable Care Act plans starts in most states Nov. 1.
CMO
Despite the Hoopla, Vaccines Should Be in Reach this Cough-and-Cold Season
The CDC this month announced updated fall immunization schedules that are not that different from last year's.
Innovation
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS
A fringe concept has spread among adherents of the MAHA movement and is gaining traction at the highest levels of...
Payer
RFK Jr. Misses Mark in Touting Rural Health Transformation Fund as Historic Infusion of Cash
'It's going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history.' Robert F. Kennedy...
Telehealth
Trump Called Digital Equity Act 'Racist.' Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone.
People in high-speed internet "dead zones" live sicker and die younger on average than their peers in well-connected regions.
Payer
Why Democrats Are Casting the Gov't. Shutdown as a Healthcare Showdown
Democrats see the high-stakes standoff as a chance to talk about affordable health care as millions of Americans.
CMO
Health Centers Face Risks as Gov't. Funding Lapses
Some health centers may have to cut medical and administrative staff or reduce services. Some could eventually close.
CMO
Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren't honoring...