Health Care : NPR

Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News, describes the latest Medicare-for-all bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders and the options for single-payer coverage proposed by lawmakers.

NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Nashville Tennessean reporter Brett Kelman about why Tennessee’s health insurance programs dropped more than 100,000 low-income children from the rolls over two years.

GOP Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, charged by President Trump to come up with an Obamacare replacement, tells Steve Inskeep that drug prices are too high. NPR’s Alison Kodjak comments on the discussion.

NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Republican strategist Antonia Ferrier about President Trump’s push for Republicans to come up with a health care law that could replace the Affordable Care Act.

NPR’s Rachel Martin talks with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson about a federal judge’s decision this week that blocked his state’s Medicaid work requirement rules.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Sabrina Corlette from Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms about how a lawsuit against Obamacare could impact people with pre-existing conditions.

NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Arkansas Department of Human Services Director Cindy Gillespie about a judge’s decision to block Arkansas’ work requirements for Medicaid recipients.

NPR’s Rachel Martin speaks to Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter about his state’s settlement against Purdue Pharma, the maker of the powerful opioid OxyContin.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Mother Jones reporter Julia Lurie about the loosely regulated rehab industry, and how it shuffles people in and out of treatment programs and cashes in on insurance money.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Carl Eriksson, assistant professor of pediatrics at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, about treating a case of tetanus in a 6-year-old boy.