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A new COVID booster is here. Will those at greatest risk get it?
By Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends new COVID-19 booster vaccines for all — but many who need them most won’t get them. About 75% of people in the United States appear to have skipped last year’s bivalent booster, and nothing suggests uptake will be better this […]
A new Medicare proposal would cover training for family caregivers
By Judith Graham / KFF Health News Even with extensive caregiving experience, Patti LaFleur was unprepared for the crisis that hit in April 2021, when her mother, Linda LaTurner, fell out of a chair and broke her hip. LaTurner, 71, had been diagnosed with early-onset dementia seven years before. For two years, she’d been living […]
Meet the people deciding how to spend $50 billion in opioid settlement cash
By Aneri Pattani / KFF Health News As more than $50 billion makes its way to state and local governments to compensate for the opioid epidemic, people with high hopes for the money are already fighting over a little-known bureaucratic arm of the process: state councils that wield immense power over how the cash is […]
‘We’re not doing that’: Why a Black couple wouldn’t crowdfund to pay off medical debts
By Noam N. Levey / KFF Health News SUFFOLK, Va. — When Kristie Fields was undergoing treatment for breast cancer nine years ago, she got some unsolicited advice at the hospital: Share your story on the local news, a nurse told her. Viewers would surely send money. Fields, a Navy veteran and former shipyard worker, […]
Opioid settlement payouts to localities made public for first time
Aneri Pattani / KFF Health News Thousands of local governments nationwide are receiving settlement money from companies that made, sold or distributed opioid painkillers, like Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen and Walmart. The companies are shelling out more than $50 billion total in settlements from national lawsuits. But finding out the precise amount each city or […]
Lawyer fees draw scrutiny as Camp Lejeune claims stack up
By Michelle Andrews | KFF Health News David and Adair Keller started their married life together in 1977 at Camp Lejeune, a military training base on the Atlantic Coast in Jacksonville, North Carolina. David was a Marine Corps field artillery officer then, and they lived together on the base for about six months. But that […]