Hannah Norman, Author at 吃瓜不打烊 吃瓜不打烊 produces in-depth journalism on health issues and is a core operating program of KFF. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:14:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 /wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=32 Hannah Norman, Author at 吃瓜不打烊 32 32 161476233 Watch: Mark Cuban Says You Can鈥檛 Fix Healthcare Until Every Price Is Known /health-care-costs/interview-mark-cuban-fix-healthcare-full-price-transparency/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 /?p=2277194&preview=true&preview_id=2277194 The ongoing debate over the U.S. health system shouldn’t be based on whether the government or the private sector is the dominant player, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said this week. The bigger issue, he said, is whether the system’s participants are transparent about what they charge and what they pay.

“I’m not opposed to single-payer or universal healthcare at all,” Cuban said Aug. 18 in an interview with 吃瓜不打烊. But “when you don’t know all the costs, when there’s no transparency, it’s impossible to determine if it’s a better solution or not,” he said.

Cuban’s remarks came on the heels of primary election victories by progressive supporters of “Medicare for All” 鈥 most notably Abdul El-Sayed, who recently clinched the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan.

The former majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a former investor on the hit TV show Shark Tank, Cuban changed the way generic prescription drugs are sold in 2022 by co-founding Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs. The website, which posts all its costs and takes a blanket 15% markup, sells thousands of medications, often at deep discounts compared with buying through private insurance plans or self-pay pharmacies.

“We took the transparent path for an industry where there was zero transparency,” Cuban said. “Everybody else prices to the market; we price to what we thought was fair.”

Cuban said that, in thinking about the broader problems facing the U.S. healthcare system, the key is to rebuild trust. “Trust really is a formula,” he said. “Trust equals transparency divided by self-interest.”

One way to build trust, he said, is to give consumers incentives to find the best price for nonemergency health services. Cuban said that means every medical purchase should count toward health insurance deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums, which is not currently the case.

He also advocates breaking up some of the vertically integrated health companies that have grown so large 鈥 owning insurers, care providers, and the companies that serve them 鈥 that they can dictate their prices. “If you break up these big, huge conglomerates, everything changes. The price of everything drops like a rock,” he said.

But so far, only a few lawmakers have been brave enough to push that goal, Cuban said, citing the co-sponsored by senators Josh Hawley of Missouri, a Republican, and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a Democrat.

In the end, Cuban said, what matters is not who is running the system but whether all the cards are on the table 鈥 in particular, whether the terms of healthcare contracts are public. Whether it’s the government or private businesses doing the negotiating, “if you don’t know how the deals are structured, it’s impossible to negotiate better ones.”

The interview was part of the “How Would You Fix It?” series featuring Julie Rovner, 吃瓜不打烊’ chief Washington correspondent and host of the What the Health? podcast.

An abbreviated version of this interview aired Aug. 20 in Episode 460 of What the Health? From 吃瓜不打烊: “Headless FDA Gets a New Nominee.”

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]]> 2277194 Watch: Why Abortions Are on the Rise Since 鈥楻oe鈥 Was Overturned /courts/video-five-things-abortions-increase-since-roe-overturned/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 /?p=2264199 Say you live in deep-red Louisiana, a state that has effectively banned abortion. It may be easier for you to get abortion pills now than before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Here’s why 鈥 and what it means for future battles over abortion access.

And as a federal court mulls a case that could result in significant restrictions on a pill used in most abortions, healthcare providers say they have alternatives to preserve access even in states with bans in place. Read more here.

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]]> 2264199 Watch: Democratic Senator Proposes a Fix for American Healthcare 鈥 Covering All Kids /health-care-costs/interview-senator-andy-kim-healthcare-fix-children-coverage/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 /?p=2268722&preview=true&preview_id=2268722 In this “How Would You Fix It?” interview, Julie Rovner, 吃瓜不打烊’ chief Washington correspondent and host of the What the Health? podcast, sat down with Sen. Andy Kim, a New Jersey Democrat, to discuss his proposal to grant all kids access to health coverage.

Kim, who serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said it is “a real dereliction of our duty that we have not found a way to be able to ensure that every child is able to go see a doctor when they need to without breaking the bank.”

Under the senator’s proposal, children would be automatically enrolled at birth in the public program, which he . Parents would have the option to opt their kids out, though they could reenroll them at any time until age 26, Kim told Rovner.

“You want to make sure that all of these kids are able to get the care that they need as their bodies are and their brains are developing and that you don’t see the kind of withdrawal of or restriction of care that could have real consequences down the road,” he said.

Kim said offering comprehensive, universal coverage to American children would help them avoid chronic conditions in adulthood, in addition to providing broader societal benefits, such as a healthier workforce.

He added that he hopes his idea could gain traction should Democrats claim a majority in Congress in the midterm elections, as well as foster an important discussion about healthcare in the 2028 presidential race.

An abbreviated version of this interview aired Aug. 6 during Episode 458 of What the Health? From 吃瓜不打烊: “The Return of 鈥楳edicare for All.’”

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]]> 2268722 Watch: GOP Senator Says Trump鈥檚 Tariffs Could Mean Safer Drugs 鈥 For a Price /health-industry/bill-cassidy-interview-senate-trump-tariffs-drug-prices-rfk-promises/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 /?p=2263419&preview=true&preview_id=2263419 President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on imported generic drugs could raise some prices for patients, a key GOP lawmaker on health issues said this week. But he said that’s a potentially worthwhile trade-off to protect the nation’s drug supply.

“The national security might be something worth paying for,” Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, said July 22 in an exclusive interview with 吃瓜不打烊.

The U.S., which has grappled with drug shortages in recent years, relies primarily on China to produce the active ingredients in many antibiotics, according to in JAMA Health Forum. Domestic facilities have closed or shifted to producing other drugs.

“Do we want China to have that sort of leverage for these drugs to be produced principally, maybe 99%, over there, and we don’t have access to them if tension rises between the two countries?” said Cassidy, who is a physician.

On July 21, Trump said in a that he would give generic drug companies two years to move production back to the U.S., after which he would impose 100% tariffs on imported products, rising to 200% the following year. Generic drugs make up an estimated 90% of all prescriptions filled in the U.S.

Cassidy, who has served in Congress , lost his bid for reelection in May after Trump endorsed a Republican primary challenger, Rep. Julia Letlow.

Last month, more than 16 months after his vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, on CBS News’ Face the Nation that the secretary broke promises he made to the senator, including that he would not change the federal recommendations for childhood vaccines.

Asked whether he would summon Kennedy again to discuss those promises, Cassidy said he had asked for him to appear before his committee but had not heard back about whether he would do so. Kennedy in April to discuss the Trump administration’s fiscal 2027 budget request for HHS.

Cassidy told 吃瓜不打烊 that when he agreed to vote to advance Kennedy’s nomination, he trusted that Kennedy would keep his word about not disparaging vaccines.

“If they agree to guardrails and disregard those guardrails, you can judge me,” Cassidy said. “You may decide my judgment wasn’t very good, but I don’t think you can say I acted in bad faith.”

Regardless, Cassidy added, Kennedy was going to exert influence in the administration, and he thought it would be better for Kennedy to be in an official post, where his work would be subject to oversight.

“I’m pretty sure that RFK was going to have the president’s ear whether he was in office or not,” he said.

While Kennedy’s efforts to roll back federal vaccine recommendations are being blocked by courts, this week reported that the number of measles cases confirmed in the U.S. so far in 2026 has exceeded the total for 2025 鈥 making it the highest number of cases in 35 years.

Cassidy, a principal author of the 2020 No Surprises Act targeting surprise medical bills, also said he doesn’t think Congress needs to make modifications to the law in the wake of reports that doctors and other healthcare providers are winning huge payouts under the arbitration system the law created. The No Surprises Act was intended to shield patients from receiving big bills for receiving medical care they didn’t know was outside their health plan’s network.

An analysis by this week found that providers were awarded nearly $15 billion in disputed claims in 2025, more than triple the 2024 figure of $4.08 billion.

“The initial step to make sure that people are getting their best deal is price transparency,” Cassidy said.

The HELP Committee on July 22 overwhelmingly approved advancing the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act, a bipartisan bill that would further expand the requirements that hospitals, insurers, and other healthcare providers make prices public and available to patients and employers. A House committee advanced a similar bill this week, also with bipartisan support, but it remains unclear whether either measure will be approved by the full House and Senate.

The interview 鈥 in which Cassidy also discussed his 鈥 was part of the “How Would You Fix It?” series featuring Julie Rovner, 吃瓜不打烊’ chief Washington correspondent and host of the What the Health? podcast.

An abbreviated version of this interview aired July 23 in Episode 456 of What the Health? From 吃瓜不打烊: “A Shrinking Safety Net.”

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]]> 2263419 Watch: 鈥楻obust鈥 Primary Care, Transparency Top Employers鈥 Reform Wish List /health-industry/employer-health-insurance-elizabeth-mitchell-interview-pbgh/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 /?p=2260183 In this “How Would You Fix It?” interview, Julie Rovner, 吃瓜不打烊’ chief Washington correspondent and host of the What the Health? podcast, sat down with Elizabeth Mitchell, the president and CEO of the Purchaser Business Group on Health, which represents many large employers and other institutional buyers of healthcare coverage.

Mitchell noted that employers, which offer coverage to more than 160 million Americans, are a big player in the nation’s healthcare system 鈥 a role they came into because of “an accident of history,” she said.

“They weren’t looking to get into the healthcare business,” she continued, but “they were looking for alternatives to wages when there were limits on what they could offer, and they started with what was a pretty inexpensive offering 鈥 helping pay for hospital care 鈥 and that has now grown to be the second-largest line item in their budgets after payroll.”

Rovner and Mitchell discussed the fact that while large employers do have market power, the rest of the healthcare system banded together in response.

“There’s been this arms race of consolidation, meaning that even the largest employers in the world are smaller and don’t have the leverage many times,” Mitchell said.

Asked to identify the systemic changes large employers would like to see, Mitchell pointed to boosting primary care and referring patients to high-quality specialists. She said changes to business policies 鈥 in particular, banning anti-competitive practices and increasing price transparency 鈥 would help, too.

“We have a very real affordability crisis,” she said.

An abbreviated version of this interview aired July 16 during Episode 455 of What the Health? From 吃瓜不打烊: “States Start Their Medicaid Cuts.”

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]]> 2260183 Would Hunters Take a Lyme Disease Vaccine? We Asked /public-health/hunters-lyme-disease-vaccine-ticks-attitudes-missouri/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 /?p=2247309 It’s tick season, possibly the .

More and more Americans are being exposed to these parasites as climate change expands the range where they can survive. That means more people are also exposed to the bevy of health conditions they can cause, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the alpha-gal-triggered red meat allergy, and, most common of all, Lyme disease.

For the latter, there may be some additional protection on the horizon. Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Valneva they plan to seek regulatory approval for a vaccine to protect against Lyme disease. A for Lyme became available in the late 1990s but was pulled only three years later due to lawsuits, public fear of side effects, and a lack of interest.

It’s unclear whether this latest stab at a Lyme disease vaccine will get a warmer reception if it’s approved, especially in the postcovid era of vaccine skepticism.

For a sense of how it might go over with rural populations at high risk of Lyme, 吃瓜不打烊 spoke with a group of hunters.

Few people spend more time in the woods exposed to ticks.

At the same time, as a collective, hunters , according to a survey from the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. And these are identities increased or vaccines, according to Ashley Kirzinger, associate director for Public Opinion and Survey Research at KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes 吃瓜不打烊.

At the same time, few people spend more time in the woods exposed to ticks and the possibility of Lyme disease.

Left untreated, Lyme can cause a , from fevers, chills, and headaches to arthritis, shooting pains, and inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About in the U.S. may be diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease each year, the CDC says; that’s at least in part because the where cases have been reported has “expanded significantly” since 1995.

So would hunters get the Lyme vaccine if it became available?

“Given my proclivity for the outdoors, absolutely,” said Jess Manganelli, one of seven hunters (and one hiker) who spoke with 吃瓜不打烊 on a recent Saturday at the Busch Shooting Range in Weldon Spring, Missouri, just outside of St. Louis.

Of the eight, Manganelli, who had been hunting turkeys the weekend before, was the most positive toward the vaccine. Six others said they would consider it but would want more information about its safety and effectiveness as well as their risk for contracting the disease.

But Manganelli was the only one who believed she may have previously contracted Lyme disease, although she was never formally diagnosed with it. Two years ago, she experienced muscle weakness, tiredness, fatigue, swelling, and headaches after a tick bite, but when she went to urgent care she was told they didn’t test for Lyme.

Nearly all the hunters knew someone who had had Lyme disease 鈥 an old roommate, a family member, friends, a former student. Lyme can be and to treat and is often misdiagnosed at first. Many of the hunters witnessed their acquaintances navigating those challenges and struggling with sometimes debilitating symptoms.

That familiarity among the hunters in Missouri was unsurprising to author and conservationist Steven Rinella, host of the hunting show MeatEater.

“I’m a turkey hunter. In talking about turkey hunting, you talk about ticks as much as you talk about turkeys,” Rinella said. “Just the nature of turkey hunting puts you into exposure. You’re sitting for long periods of time trying to use vegetation for concealment.”

In fact, both Rinella and his older son contracted Lyme disease 13 years ago during a bluegill fishing trip in the Hudson Valley in New York. His son developed Bell’s palsy, a sudden paralysis on one side of the face, but recovered quickly after a course of oral antibiotics. Steven Rinella’s symptoms, on the other hand, lingered for months, leaving him unable to walk down stairs without a handrail or to ride a bike. He ended up receiving intravenous antibiotic treatments for a month.

“I thought my life had changed,” Rinella said, “but I recovered, as far as I know.”

That experience is one reason Rinella said he would absolutely consider getting a Lyme vaccine if it proved safe and provided considerable protection against the disease. Unlike with some other diseases, prior infection does not provide permanent immunity, so a person who has had Lyme could still benefit from a vaccine.

A pair of hands holds up a piece of paper with two large bull's eye targets and two small ones. Bullet holes are scattered across the paper.
Matthew Mealer holds up his targets at the Busch Shooting Range in Weldon Spring, Missouri, in May. Mealer, a hiker but not a hunter, said he’s generally skeptical of new vaccines but might consider one for Lyme disease if it proves safe and effective. “Lyme disease can be scary,” Mealer says. (Kyle Pyatt for 吃瓜不打烊)

Knowledge of similar challenges influenced the thinking of the hunters in Missouri as well.

Jeremy Hollingshead said he may be less inclined to take a vaccine owing to his former roommate’s experience with Lyme disease, which is not to say the experience was pleasant. In fact, Hollingshead said he thinks his old pal is still dealing with lingering effects of it 10 years later. But Hollingshead has spent his whole life in the woods, and of hundreds of people he knows who have done the same, he knows of only one of them contracting Lyme.

“I know it was a bad outcome for him,” Hollingshead said, but he thinks the odds of getting Lyme himself seem pretty slim.

Meanwhile, Julian Barnes said seeing a relative struggle with Lyme makes him more open to a potential vaccine. It took a long time for doctors to come to that diagnosis, and finding a good treatment has been equally difficult.

“I would say I am vaccine-hesitant, generally speaking,” Barnes said. “But Lyme, I’ve seen the way it affects people in my life.”

“I would definitely have to really understand the vaccine, how it works,” Barnes added.

The new, four-dose vaccine candidate technically missed one of the bars set out in trials because Lyme. Still, the companies say it’s about 75% effective in reducing cases, and they plan to submit it to regulators for approval. A Pfizer spokesperson said there were no updates to share on the company’s regulatory efforts when contacted by 吃瓜不打烊 in June.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a noted anti-vaccine activist before taking over as head of the agency that oversees vaccine approvals, and he’s remade it in ways that have prompted some vaccine makers to on development.

But he’s also been an advocate on Lyme disease. In May, he announced an . And during his Senate confirmation hearings, he said his family had been deeply affected by Lyme disease and that than he would to find a vaccine or treatment.

If the vaccine is approved by the FDA, an endorsement from Kennedy would go a long way, according to KFF’s Kirzinger, particularly among supporters of his Make America Healthy Again movement, who tend to be more vaccine-skeptical.

“They trust him as much as they trust their own doctors to tell them what to do with their health and for health information,” Kirzinger said. “If he comes out as a strong proponent of this vaccine and says, 鈥楲ook what my administration did, and we made this available,’ I would imagine there would be less vaccine resistance among that group.”

Kirzinger also said this vaccine could be ripe for misinformation. New polling from KFF shows people who don’t have a trusted medical provider as well as those who use social media and AI for health information are common vaccine myths.

Only one of the hunters who spoke with 吃瓜不打烊 said they definitely would not be interested in a Lyme vaccine if it became available.

“I kind of hand it off to God and the body he gave me. I’m pretty durable,” JP Cummings said. But even while he’s not interested in it for himself, he’s curious to see what his fellow hunters do as more information comes out.

“Hunters care about the wildlife; hunters care about health,” Cummings said. “They love the wildlife, they love their deer, and they love their fellow hunters.”

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]]> 2247309 Watch: The Tug-of-War Over Taxpayer Dollars /news/podcast-interview-senator-tammy-baldwin-taxpayer-dollars-988/ Wed, 20 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 /?p=2238757 Julie Rovner, 吃瓜不打烊’ chief Washington correspondent and host of the What the Health? podcast, recently spoke with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) about the ongoing fight between President Donald Trump and Congress over control of federal spending.

Baldwin, who is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said lawmakers have been forced to take unprecedented action to ensure the Trump administration properly spends taxpayer dollars.

“In this most recently passed bill that Donald Trump signed into law, we had to put guardrails that we’ve never had to put into our appropriations laws before to enforce our spending bills,” Baldwin said. “And those laws have made it clear that we expect that they must spend what we have appropriated, and not just all of it at the end of the fiscal year, but in a timely manner throughout the year.”

The conversation also addressed the success 鈥 and Trump-imposed limitations 鈥 of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The resource, which was created through a bipartisan effort, has led to a notable reduction in youth suicide, according to in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

“It’s heartwarming to know that this work matters,” Baldwin said.

This interview aired May 14 on Episode No. 446 of What the Health? From 吃瓜不打烊: “In 吃瓜不打烊 of a New FDA Commissioner.”

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]]> 2238757 Watch: 8 Health Insurance Terms You Should Know /insurance/watch-8-health-insurance-terms-you-should-know/ Mon, 11 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Health insurance in the U.S. is notoriously confusing. So we’re covering the basics to make navigating your plan a little easier. We explain the difference between a deductible and an out-of-pocket limit, define copay and coinsurance, and point out where surprise bills can get you in trouble, from out-of-network providers to prior authorizations.聽

Read more coverage from our “Bill of the Month,” “Health Care Helpline,” and “Priced Out” series:

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]]> 2232979 Watch: Acknowledging Health Care鈥檚 Great Divide /health-industry/health-care-policy-political-divide-david-blumenthal-interview/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:00:58 +0000 /?p=2230749 In this “How Would You Fix It?” interview, Julie Rovner, 吃瓜不打烊’ chief Washington correspondent and host of the What the Health? podcast, sat down with David Blumenthal 鈥 a physician, health policy expert, former Obama administration official, and author 鈥 to explore the dynamics that make fixing the nation’s health care system so difficult.

They discussed the pivotal role the president of the United States plays in health policy 鈥 whether it is building support for or opposition to new plans and proposals. “Presidents have a level of authority which is often underappreciated, especially in health care,” Blumenthal said.

Blumenthal and Rovner also discussed the historical reasons the U.S. has been unable to enact universal health care, incrementalism versus sweeping change, and what he described as “the dance” between proponents and opponents 鈥 usually a clear party-line split between Democrats and Republicans 鈥 of major health care reforms.

Today, the split seems to have come to a head, as public health, science, and expertise are being viewed by one end of the political spectrum as “the opposition,” Blumenthal said, which will complicate efforts. Still, he outlined ideas for moving forward.

An abbreviated version of this interview aired April 23 on Episode 443 of What the Health? From 吃瓜不打烊: “RFK Jr. vs. Congress.”

Blumenthal’s latest book, Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science, co-written with James A. Morone, offers a behind-the-scenes look at how three presidential administrations pursued very different health policy goals.

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]]> 2230749 Watch: As AI Makes More Health Coverage Decisions, the Risks to Patients Grow /courts/watch-ai-artificial-intelligence-prior-authorization-insurance-coverage-decisions/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

This year, executives from nearly every major health insurance company made the same declaration in calls with Wall Street analysts: Using artificial intelligence to make coverage decisions would help save them money.

Even the Trump administration is testing AI’s usefulness in managing the prior authorization process for the Medicare program, as well as seeking to override AI regulation by states.

But class action lawsuits have accused insurers of using AI to wrongfully withhold treatment. And outlines the risks of training AI on a current system rife with wrongful denials.

“There is a world in which using AI could make that worse, or at least replicate a bad human system, because the data that it would be training on is from that bad human system,” said Michelle Mello, a co-author of the study.

Although, Mello said, the research team found “real positives alongside the risks.”

In this video produced by 吃瓜不打烊’ Hannah Norman, Darius Tahir, a correspondent covering health technology, explains.

You can read Tahir’s recent coverage of AI’s use by health insurers below:

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