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Health care workers on the front lines of the COVID crisis have spent exhausting months working and self-quarantining off-duty to keep from infecting others, including their families. Encountering people who indignantly refuse face coverings can feel like a slap in the face.
The coronavirus has forced drug rehabilitation centers to scale back operations or temporarily close, leaving people who have another potentially deadly disease 鈥 addiction 鈥 with fewer opportunities for help.
In an investigation last year, KHN detailed the rise and fall of Miami businessman Jorge A. Perez鈥檚 rural hospital empire, which spanned eight states and encompassed half of the rural hospital bankruptcies in 2019.
The shortages are so dire that nursing homes and other health centers are going to extraordinary lengths for masks, gowns and essential materials.
KHN executive editor Damon Darlin wades through mounds of health care policy stories 鈥 so you don鈥檛 have to.
As some states begin the delicate task of lifting stay-at-home orders and allowing businesses to reopen, many employers are considering whether their strategy should include wide testing of workers.
Many Americans order drugs from Canada and other countries because they are cheaper, but U.S. authorities appear to be cracking down on the practice.
In the first round of emergency relief, some states will get more than $300,000 per COVID-19 patient, while hard-hit New York gets just $12,000 per patient.
The coronavirus death toll in Palm Beach County 鈥 home to President Donald Trump鈥檚 palatial home and club, Mar-a-Lago 鈥 is the highest in Florida, where the large senior population is at risk.
Florida joins more than 30 other states and the District of Columbia that have similarly restricted residents and businesses. Florida was the only state with more than 5,000 coronavirus cases that had yet to act.
At least 30 states have issued statewide stay-at-home orders. Florida, one of the eight states with the highest number of COVID-19 cases recorded so far, is the only one in that group not to have such an order.
Just 5 miles from Mar-a-Lago, the POTUS鈥 outpost, Florida residents find that the president鈥檚 pledge to make testing accessible hasn鈥檛 materialized.
After Kaiser Health News鈥 questions, the association tells the aspirin maker to take down display bins at Walmart pharmacies that gave a false impression that the over-the-counter drug is recommended for everyone to prevent heart attacks.
Florida has struggled for years with opioid overdoses 鈥 and the highest rate of HIV infection in the U.S. Lawmakers now hope needle exchanges and a "harm reduction" approach could help save lives.
Colorado, Florida and Vermont 鈥 with the support of President Donald Trump 鈥 are exploring plans to bring drugs across the border from Canada to help lower costs.
Joanne Kenen of Politico, Jen Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss the latest news about the Trump administration鈥檚 effort to allow health care practitioners and organizations to refuse to provide care or refer patients for services that violate their conscience or religion. Also this week, the administration orders TV ads for prescription drugs to include list prices. And Tennessee wants free rein from the federal government to run its Medicaid program. Plus, Rovner interviews Joan Biskupic, author of a new book on Chief Justice John Roberts, about the behind-the-scenes negotiations that led to the 2012 ruling upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.
The Food and Drug Administration claims CanaRX, a company used by more than 500 cities, counties and school districts to help their employees get cheaper drugs from overseas, has sent 鈥渦napproved鈥 and 鈥渕isbranded鈥 drugs to U.S. consumers, jeopardizing their safety.
The state鈥檚 governor said the plan has the full support of the White House. But the Trump administration was noncommittal about whether allowing states to buy and import cheaper drugs from up north could be the answer to the nation鈥檚 drug-pricing problem.
Enrollment is lagging compared with last year鈥檚 pace. But experts say sign-ups tend to accelerate as the deadline nears, and many people will be automatically re-enrolled, so the final numbers could approach last year鈥檚 totals.
Nearly three-quarters of voters say that health care is the most important issue for them, but fewer than half are hearing much from candidates about it, according to a poll released by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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