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KHN: Covid Cases Plummet 83% Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy
March 15, 2021: Joan Phillips, a certified nursing assistant in a Florida nursing home, loved her job but dreaded the danger of going to work in the pandemic. When vaccines became available in December, she jumped at the chance to get one. Months ...Read more >
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KHN: Reopening of Long-Term Care Facilities Is ‘an Absolute Necessity for Our Well-Being’
March 08, 2021: For nearly a year, nursing homes and assisted living centers have been mostly closed to visitors. Now, it’s time for them to open back up and relieve residents of crushing isolation, according to a growing chorus of long-term care exp...Read more >
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KHN: Why AstraZeneca and J&J’s Vaccines, In Use Elsewhere, Are Still on Hold in America
March 01, 2021: By Sarah Jane Tribble The World Health Organization greenlighted emergency use of AstraZeneca and Oxford’s covid-19 vaccine this month, following in the steps of the United Kingdom, the European Union and others, who are already injecting i...Read more >
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KHN: Countless Homebound Patients Still Wait for Covid Vaccine Despite Seniors’ Priority
February 22, 2021: By Judith Graham Opening another front in the nation’s response to the pandemic, medical centers and other health organizations have begun sending doctors and nurses to apartment buildings and private homes to vaccinate homebound seniors. ...Read more >
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KHN: As Drug Prices Keep Rising, State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Them
February 16, 2021: Fed up with a lack of federal action to lower prescription drug costs, state legislators around the country are pushing bills to penalize drugmakers for unjustified price hikes and to cap payment at much-lower Canadian levels. These bills, sponsor...Read more >
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KHN: When Your Chance for a Covid Shot Comes, Don’t Worry About the Numbers
February 02, 2021: By Arthur Allen and Liz Szabo When getting vaccinated against covid-19, there’s no sense being picky. You should take the first authorized vaccine that’s offered, experts say. The newest covid vaccine on the horizon, from Johnson & J...Read more >
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KHN Poll: Nearly Half of American Adults Now Want the Covid Vaccine — ASAP
January 27, 2021: By Phil Galewitz Americans’ reluctance to get vaccinated for covid-19 is waning, according to a poll released Wednesday. Nearly half of adults surv...Read more >
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View NARA’s Forum on the Five 2020 Ballot Questions
October 05, 2020: Learn more about Nevada's Five 2020 Ballot questions. Please see the general description of the issues from the Las Vegas Sun, followed by a link to NARA's forum on September 30, 2020 with more information. BOARD OF REGENTS Question 1 on th...Read more >
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KHN: Federal Judge Rules Medicare Patients Can Challenge ‘Observation Care’ Status
March 30, 2020: By Susan Jaffe Hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries who have been denied coverage for nursing home stays because their time in the hospital was changed from “inpatient” to “observation care” can now appeal to Medicare for reimbu...Read more >
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‘Hobnobbing With Billionaires in Davos,’ Trump Admits—If Reelected—He Will Seek to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare
January 23, 2020: "It'll be toward the end of the year," Trump said from Davos, Switzerland. "And at the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that's actually the easiest of all things, if you look, cause it's such a big percentage." By Jon Queally, st...Read more >