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KHN column: The prevention dilemma

May 24, 2010
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 and WSJ reporters discuss health overhaul

May 20, 2010
Kaiser Health News staff writer Mary Agnes Carey and The Wall Street Journal's Janet Adamy discussed the many ways the health overhaul law will affect health care consumers young and old, and especially people with Medicare coverage on NPR's Talk of the Nation yesterday.

KHN Column: The health care cost problem we refuse to see

May 17, 2010
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

May 14, 2010
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

May 3, 2010
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 ...

KHN column — Report from Michigan: What state residents stand to gain from health reform

April 20, 2010
On their way to Washington last week, Tea Party activists stopped in Lansing, Michigan. And among the officials who addressed them was Mike Cox, the state's Republican attorney general.

KHN column: Why Americans should support an individual mandate

April 6, 2010
In his latest Kaiser Health News column, done in collaboration with The New Republic, Jonathan Cohn writes: "Imagine for a moment that you work in a hospital emergency room. And just outside the door, a man has collapsed from a heart attack.

KHN column: Can incremental health reform provide a path forward?

March 16, 2010
In this Kaiser Health News column, Gail Wilensky writes: "As we await another historic vote in the House on whether lawmakers will support the Senate version of reform, it's worth asking whether incremental reform would have been a better path" (3/15).

KHN column — Public reverse mortgages and long-term care: Can they work together?

March 12, 2010
In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Howard Gleckman writes: "Here's the problem: By the time we need long-term care services we often don't have readily available resources to pay for them.

KHN Column: Popular But Ineffective: Repealing Insurers’ Antitrust Exemption

March 5, 2010
In today's Kaiser Health News column, Austin Frakt and Ian Crosby write: It is well known that concentration in the health insurance industry is to blame for rapidly rising premiums. Well known, but wrong. Taking political advantage of this common misconception, last week the House passed a bill to repeal ...

KHN Column: Popular but ineffective: Repealing insurers’ antitrust exemption

March 5, 2010
In today's Kaiser Health News column, Austin Frakt and Ian Crosby write: It is well known that concentration in the health insurance industry is to blame for rapidly rising premiums. Well known, but wrong.

KHN column — Don’t stop now: Lawmakers should pass the Senate bill

February 12, 2010
In her latest column for Kaiser Health News, Judy Feder writes: "Veterans of health reform battles know all too well that enacting health reform is as challenging to the nation's political system as it is important to the nation's well-being.