National editor at KFF Health News. Loves D.C. local news. [email protected] Find me on Signal: Kytja.887
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“You can’t expect that people will be fine if the next-closest children’s hospital is a flight away or an eight-hour drive,” said Elizabeth Mack, a pediatric critical care doctor.
My latest for @KFFHealthNews, @CBSNews
Hospital units dedicated to treating the nation's sickest kids are disappearing nationwide. In the past year alone, hospitals have closed pediatric intensive care units for critically ill kids in Montana, Oregon, and Missouri. Overnight hospital wings for kids have also shuttered in Illinois and California.
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More than 130 Americans have reached out to @KFFHealthNews about how healthcare costs are upending their lives. “It’s become an all-of-us issue,” one patient advocate said. @renurayasam & Sam Whitehead explain why bringing the costs down won’t be easy. kffhealthnews.org/health-car…
Average U.S. health spending per person increased to $15,474 in 2024, not necessarily because we’re sicker, but because of increased prices. Find out where the money’s coming from and how it’s being spent. @renurayasam & Lydia Zuraw dive into the data: kffhealthnews.org/health-car…
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A proposed federal rule could dramatically reduce access to remote patient monitoring programs for ppl on Medicare, especially in rural areas. Learn how one rural patient uses RPM + why many agree more oversight is needed but think this rule goes too far:
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A few years ago, @MarkianHawryluk retired from a long career in healthcare journalism. Turns out it's still so interesting he cannot stay away! He's launched his own Substack on Oregon's looming proposal for a universal healthcare plan: markianhawryluk.substack.com…
And here's a curtain-raiser piece he wrote for us at @KFFHealthNews about Oregon's proposal as the national conversation once again turns to various universal healthcare proposals, such as Medicare For All kffhealthnews.org/elections/…
So great to have @MarkianHawryluk's healthcare reporting and writing back in the mix.
Is our U.S. healthcare system scaring you? Write a haiku about it for our annual Halloween healthcare haiku contest for your chance to win fame and glory -- and a custom illustration of your poem by @oonatempest kffhealthnews.org/news/hallo…
A Black man with mental health issues died after he was shocked with a Taser and put into hobble restraints. Has the national reckoning over police brutality died, too? @CaraRAnthony reports from Sikeston, Missouri: kffhealthnews.org/public-hea…
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A @KFFHealthNews team has collected most states' approved plans and first-year budgets for the #RuralHealthTransformationProgram! #RHTP #RuralHealth
Team: Me, @sjtribble + Nate Payne
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In 1955, the U.S. had more than half a million psychiatric beds. Today, about 61,000 are left despite more than 14 million people a year experiencing severe mental illness. Helen Santoro explains what this meant for her, with illustrations by @oonatempest kffhealthnews.org/health-ind…
President Trump has taken a pro-tobacco regulatory stance in office -- while he also grew his stock holdings this year to as much as $1.64 million in tobacco giant Philip Morris, @kffhealthnews' @dariustahir reports kffhealthnews.org/courts/fda…
“People are not shunning sunscreen because they have stopped believing UV is dangerous. They are shunning it because they have lost trust in what is in the bottle.” Will a newly approved sunscreen chemical change that?kffhealthnews.org/public-hea…
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Immigrant detainees have told courts across the nation that detention officials have failed to treat or stabilize their conditions, from pregnancy to prostate cancer, suggesting that systemic lapses in care extend well beyond record deaths in ICE custody. kffhealthnews.org/courts/ice…
Since President Donald Trump retook office, detainees in at least 33 states have claimed they received delayed or deficient medical care — if they weren’t denied it outright — for everything from diabetes to Parkinson’s. Read our @AP & @KFFHealthNews piece kffhealthnews.org/courts/ice…
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New Washington Post, new approach to news. Today: News reruns! On the Metro front, this excellent piece about the theft of a $24,000 wine bottle—a story that originally appeared on November 26 of last year. So nice, they ran it twice. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
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Our story has a map/database of state applications to the Rural Health Transformation Program! Proposals include using drones to deliver medication, installing produce refrigerators, and bringing telehealth to libraries and senior centers.
W/ @sjtribble
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LOCALIZE THIS: Feds promised “radical transparency” with the $50 billion federal rural health program but are withholding states’ applications. @KFFHealthNews filed records requests for states’ complete applications. See the records here: kffhealthnews.org/news/artic…
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🧵Is opioid settlement $ living up to its promise? @KFFHealthNews, @JohnsHopkinsSPH & @ShatterproofHQ built a database showing 10,500+ ways it was spent (or not) last year, from treatment & housing to police drones & drug awareness magicians. kffhealthnews.org/news/artic…
People can have their wages garnished to pay back medical bills. But in Colorado, no data existed on how often that happens. So, @raelnb built a database to find out. Read what she discovered: kffhealthnews.org/MjA5Mjk0OQ via @kffhealthnews
