Posts tagged: column
KHN Column: Reminding ourselves what has gone right with the health law
In this Kaiser Health News column, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who has a new book about the health care debate, writes Six months after the passage of health care reform, it is easy to forget how far we have come in such a short time.
KHN column: Keeping an eye on the health care prize
In this Kaiser Health News column, Brian Klepper and David Kibbe write: "Many reformers undoubtedly believe that passage of the health overhaul law laid the issue to rest. But policy's wheels continue to turn, and the process is anything but over" (9/20).
Salon Column Examines Reasons For Unsafe Sex Among Older Adults
It is "impossible to ignore" the "dramatic spike" in sexually transmitted infections among adults ages 45 and older, "a demographic we tend to refer to as 'mature,'" author and Salon staff writer Mary Elizabeth Williams writes in column. According to Williams, a recent report from the British Family Planning Association ...
KHN column – The prevention and public health fund: Good for our health, good for small business
In this Kaiser Health News column, Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, and Larry Cohen, founder and executive director of Prevention Institute, offer their perspective on a legislative question: "As Congress returns to work this week, senators are scheduled to cast a critical vote on ...
KHN column: Don’t discount the value of an agent, they discount your insurance
In this column for Kaiser Health News, Janet Trautwein, CEO of the National Association of Health Underwriters, notes: "Insurance agents have made for popular punching bags in recent weeks.
KHN column: Social Security’s Disabled Adult Child program: A key program often below the radar
In this Kaiser Health News column, Harold Pollack writes: "Intellectual disability is often accompanied by costly illnesses and social service needs.
KHN column: The prevention dilemma
In this Kaiser Health News column, Partnership for Prevention President and CEO Robert Gould writes: "If given the choice to spread prevention money around or to concentrate it to make a profound, historic and measurable impact, what would you do?
KHN Column: The health care cost problem we refuse to see
In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Austin Frakt writes: "I agree with those who think the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act doesn't do enough soon enough to control the rate of increase in health insurance premiums.
KHN Column — Rescissions: Much ado about nothing
In this Kaiser Health News column, John Goodman writes: "How many times have you heard President Obama say, 'Health insurers won't be able to drop your coverage just because you get sick?
KHN column: Playing chicken
In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Jonathan Cohn writes: "A lot of people laughed when Sue Lowden, the Nevada Republican running for the U.S. Senate, suggested last month that people start paying for their medical care with chickens. I didn't. I thought about my late grandfather Kurt, a family ...
Washington Times Column Highlights Efforts To Expand Insurance Coverage Of Infertility Care
At a Capitol Hill briefing on Wednesday, advocates from Resolve: The National Infertility Association said that the "complex, emotionally riveting issue" of infertility "needs to come out of the shadows -- and be fully covered by health insurance," Washington Times columnist Cheryl Wetzstein writes. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who ...