DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-11-05 Centene Showers Politicians With Millions as It Courts Contracts and Settles Overbilling Allegations Samantha Young and Andy Miller and Rebecca Grapevine On Nov. 2, 2021, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s reelection campaign received 10 separate $10,000 contributions from what appeared to be unrelated health insurance plans from across the country. The Buckeye Community […]
2022-11-04 Hurricane Ian’s Deadly Impact on Florida Seniors Exposes Need for New Preparation Strategies Judith Graham All kinds of natural disasters — hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, dangerous heat waves — pose substantial risks to older adults. Yet, not enough seniors prepare for these events in advance, and efforts to encourage them to do […]
2022-11-03 Hospital Investigated for Allegedly Denying an Emergency Abortion After Patient’s Water Broke Harris Meyer The federal government has launched its first confirmed investigation of an alleged denial of an abortion to a woman experiencing a medical emergency. In late October, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services opened an investigation at […]
2022-11-02 Open Enrollment for Marketplace Health Plans Is Soon. Here’s What You Need to Know. Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News It’s fall again, meaning shorter days, cooler temperatures, and open enrollment for Affordable Care Act marketplace insurance — sign-ups begin this week for coverage that starts Jan. 1, 2023. Even though much of […]
Nov 1, 2022 California Patients Fear Fallout From Third Dialysis Ballot Measure Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News ELK GROVE — Toni Sherwin is actually looking forward to the procedure that will relocate her dialysis port from her chest to her arm, which will be easier to keep dry. Since she started dialysis in […]
2022-10-31 Ambulance Company to Halt Some Rides in Southern California, Citing Low Medicaid Rates Sarah Kwon For 23 years, the private ambulance industry in California had gone without an increase in the base rate the state pays it to transport Medicaid enrollees. At the start of the year, it asked the state legislature […]
2022-10-30 When Monkeypox Reaches Rural Communities, It Collides With Strained Public Health Systems Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez When a case of monkeypox was reported in Nevada’s Humboldt County in August, it was the state’s first detected occurrence of the virus in a rural area. Soon, cases were found in other rural counties — Nye, […]
2022-10-29 Knoxville’s Black Community Endured Deeply Rooted Racism. Now There Is Medical Debt. Noam N. Levey KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — When Dr. H.M. Green opened his new medical office building on East Vine Avenue in 1922, Black residents of this city on the Tennessee River could be seen only in the basement of Knoxville […]
2022-10-28 Employers Are Concerned About Covering Workers’ Mental Health Needs, Survey Finds Michelle Andrews Almost three years after the covid-19 pandemic upended workplaces, mental health coverage remains a priority for employers, according to an annual employer survey fielded by KFF. Nearly half of surveyed large employers — those with at least 200 workers […]
2022-10-28 Lawmakers and Public Health Advocates Call for Congress to Finally Ban Asbestos by Neil Bedi and Kathleen McGrory ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Toxic Burden How American Chemical Regulations Failed the Public Days […]