Rebecca Adams
@RebeccaAdamsDC
@KFFHealthNews deputy partnerships editor. Former @CQNow @RollCall health care editor/reporter. Worked at AZ, TN, GA newspapers. @EmoryUniversity alum/UGA fan.
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Congressman Tom McClintock’s wife died after ingesting white mulberry leaf, Sacramento Coroner reports show, which is often used in herbal remedies. Her death highlights the potential dangers of dietary supplements.
Here's a thread on how Samantha Young is following this story 👇🏽
An online calculator told Dani Yuengling that a procedure would cost an uninsured person about $1,400. Instead, the price was about $18,000, and she was on the hook for more than $5,000 — the deductible balance. KHN-NPR #BilloftheMonth
📝Lauren Sausser khn.org/news/article/b…
Abortion Is Shaking Up Attorneys General Races and Exposing Limits to Their Powers. Timely story here: khn.org/MTU0NjM3Mw via @khnews Sam Whitehead Lauren Weber
1/3 This week on KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ #podcast : Anna Edney, Joanne Kenen, Alice Miranda Ollstein, & host julie rovner recap the Reconciliation Bill, big news on hearing aids, CDC’s response (or lack thereof) to covid and monkeypox, latest post-Roe, tainted drugs. khn.org/news/article/p…
Some community health centers recorded profit margins of 20% or more in at least 3 of the past 4 years.
A center w/ a high margin “raises questions about where did the surplus go” and its tax-exempt status, Ge Bai said.
📝: Phil Galewitz/Bram Sable-Smith khn.org/news/article/f…
Health officials around the US apply lessons learned from #covid . MT officials deliver naloxone to hotels to combat overdoses. TX will check wastewater for monkeypox. IL tweaked covid teams to stem gun violence. Kaiser Health News story by Katheryn Houghton via CNN: cnn.com/2022/08/15/hea…
Check out this Kaiser Health News story by Sarah Jane Tribble: Mismanaged hospitals allegedly abandoned their own employees' insurance. Nurses and others say $$ was taken from their paychecks for benefits but the company secretly cancelled coverage. usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday
#NEW : Tune into the latest episode of KHN's 'What the Health?' #podcast . Discussions on the reconciliation bill, abortion ban updates, covid, monkeypox and more with Rachel Cohrs, Sarah Karlin-Smith, Alice Miranda Ollstein, and host julie rovner. khn.org/news/article/p…
Sorry about the technical delays (not our fault) But NOW the latest #WTHealth podcast is up, with Rachel Cohrs on reconciliation, Alice Miranda Ollstein on abortion, and Sarah Karlin-Smith on Covid and monkeypox. Also, me!
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Check out our updated slideshow summarizing the prescription drug provisions in the #InflationReduction Act that's on its way to the House of Representatives for a vote tomorrow.
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Under the Medicare drug negotiations provisions in the reconciliation bill, the federal government would see its outlays reduced by about $300 billion. That reduction wouldn’t result from cuts in benefits.
📝: Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact-KHN #HealthCheck khn.org/news/article/s…
EPA action boosts grassroots momentum to reduce toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ajc.com/life/health/ep… #publicpolicy #scienceandengineering #PFAS