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KHN Column: A Defense Of High-Risk Insurance Pools – From One Critic To The Others; Few Opt For Vaccine To Prevent Painful Shingles, NPR Reports

January 19, 2011
KHN Column: A Defense Of High-Risk Insurance Pools - From One Critic To The Others In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Harold Pollack writes: "From the beginning, I've been a persistent, occasionally grouchy critic of the high-risk insurance pools set up in the new federal health law. The title ...

KHN video: Health care battles to surge anew in 2011

January 3, 2011
In this video feature, Kaiser Health News reporters preview some of the big issues coming this year: The GOP's fight to repeal the law and what the party can offer instead; states' efforts to beat back growing Medicaid costs; consumers' troubles affording care (1/3).

Q & A With Michelle Andrews: Seeking Health Coverage When Traditional Coverage Is Out Of Reach; KHN Column: No Outrage, No Story In Dead Patients

December 23, 2010
Q & A With Michelle Andrews: Seeking Health Coverage When Traditional Coverage Is Out Of Reach In this Kaiser Health News video project, Michelle Andrews a consumer question about options for seeking health coverage (12/22). Watch the video. KHN Column: No Outrage, No Story In Dead Patients In his ...

KHN Column: Is The Individual Mandate Really A Lynchpin In The New Health Law?; KHN Column: Is There Any Hope For Medicaid Reform?

December 16, 2010
KHN Column: Is The Individual Mandate Really A Lynchpin In The New Health Law? In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Robert Laszewski writes: "If the Supreme Court does rule the individual mandate unconstitutional will it really bring down the whole law? I don't see it" (12/15). Read the column...

KHN column: Replace the tattered Medicaid long-term care safety net

November 29, 2010
In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Howard Gleckman writes: "Medicaid, the state-federal health program that also pays for nearly half of all long-term care services for the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities, is in big trouble" (11/29).

KHN column — the Texas Medicaid scenario: Why it’s never going to happen

November 19, 2010
When I first heard about this controversy, I noted one simple fact that deserves greater play: This is not going to happen. Withdrawing from Medicaid would be political suicide.

KHN column — Attacking the health law: The GOP’s confusing and incompatible arguments

November 8, 2010
In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Jonathan Cohn writes: "The Republicans and their allies spent a lot of time — and a lot of money — attacking the new health law and promising to undo it.

KHN Column: Reminding ourselves what has gone right with the health law

October 7, 2010
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

September 20, 2010
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).

KHN column – The prevention and public health fund: Good for our health, good for small business

September 13, 2010
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

September 10, 2010
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

September 7, 2010
In this Kaiser Health News column, Harold Pollack writes: "Intellectual disability is often accompanied by costly illnesses and social service needs.