by | Mar 24, 2024 | Health
It was an every-other-day routine, full of frustration. Every time my husband called his father, who was 94 when he died in 2022, he’d wait for his dad to find his hearing aids and put them in before they started talking. This story also ran on CBS News. It can be...
by | Mar 17, 2024 | Health
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of...
by | Mar 15, 2024 | Health
Steven Garner doesn’t like to talk about the day that changed his life. A New Orleans barroom altercation in 1990 escalated to the point where Garner, then 18, and his younger brother Glenn shot and killed another man. The Garners claimed self-defense, but a jury...
by | Mar 12, 2024 | Health
Millions of Medi-Cal beneficiaries can now save for a rainy day, keep an inheritance, or hold on to a modest nest egg, without losing coverage, thanks to an eligibility change phased in over the past year and a half. It also has opened the door for thousands who...
by | Mar 12, 2024 | Health
Millones de beneficiarios de Medi-Cal pueden ahora ahorrar para días difíciles, mantener una herencia, o tener una modesta reserva de dinero, sin perder la cobertura, gracias a un cambio en la elegibilidad introducido gradualmente en el último año y medio. También se...
by | Mar 10, 2024 | Health
The covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults. This story also ran on CNN. It can be republished for free. About...
