Do Kamala Harris and Joe Biden Really Understand Their Own Health Plans?
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates on Wednesday, July 31, 2019 in Detroit. Paul Sancya/AP After months of not clarifying where, exactly, she stood on the details of health care reform, Sen. Kamala Harris released her idea for a version of…
How Journalists Took Down One Dialysis Patient’s $524,000 Insurance Bill
Sovereign Valentine, a personal trainer in Montana, underwent dialysis and got stuck with an incorrect bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars.Tommy Martino/Kaiser Health News Welcome to Recharge, a weekly newsletter full of stories that will energize your inner hellraiser. See more editions and sign up here. The dialysis kept him alive. Then the Montana…
How a Revolutionary Genetic Discovery Is Changing What We Know About Anorexia
Nattakorn Maneerat/iStock/Getty “Why won’t she eat more? Why won’t he eat more?” Cynthia Bulik, a clinical psychologist, and founding director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, says this is the question she hears repeatedly from parents of children with anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder which causes…
A Federal Court Appears Ready to Buy the GOP’s Argument to Kill Obamacare
Sachelle Babbar/Zuma The fate of the Affordable Care Act remains uncertain following a hearing about the law at a federal appeals court in New Orleans. The hearing concerned a lawsuit originally filed by Republican state attorneys general in a Texas district court in 2018, which alleges that the entirety of Obamacare should be invalidated because…
We Just Got a Ton of Clarity on Where the Democrats Stand on Medicare for All
Ten Democratic presidential candidates respond to a question about health care during the first 2020 Democratic debate in Miami, Fla., on June 25, 2019.MSNBC Twenty minutes into the first night of the first 2020 Democratic debate, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt asked a straightforwards yes or no question of the field: “Who here would…
Ayanna Pressley Wants to Ditch an Old Anti-Abortion Law. House Democrats Aren’t Listening.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks to demonstrators outside of the Supreme Court on May 21, 2019.Stefani Reynolds/AP Images The Democratic majority in the US House appears likely to pass a spending bill which will include the Hyde Amendment, a measure that blocks federal funds from being spent on abortions, despite clear opposition from the the party’s base and…