DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-03-22 Money Flows Into Addiction Tech, But Will It Curb Soaring Opioid Overdose Deaths? Brian Rinker David Sarabia had already sold two startups by age 26 and was sitting on enough money to never have to work another day in his life. He moved from Southern California to New York City and began […]
2022-03-19 How to Avoid Surprise Bills — And the Pitfalls in the New Law Dan Weissmann Patients are no longer required to pay for out-of-network care given without their consent when they receive treatment at hospitals covered by their health insurance since a federal law took effect at the start of this year. […]
Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month’s […]
2022-03-17 Want Vulnerable Californians to Have Healthier Pregnancies? Doulas Say the State Must Pay Up. Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This was supposed to be the year that low-income Californians could hire a doula to guide them through pregnancy and advocate for them in the hospital. But the new benefit for […]
2022-03-17 Pollen season is getting longer and more intense with climate change – here’s what allergy sufferers can expect in the future Ragweed pollen, instigator of headaches and itchy eyes across the U.S. Bob Sacha/Corbis Documentary via Getty Images Yingxiao Zhang, University of Michigan and Allison L. Steiner, University of Michigan Brace yourselves, allergy suffers […]
2022-03-16 Medicare Advantage Plans Send Pals to Seniors’ Homes for Companionship — And Profits Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Widowed and usually living alone, Gloria Bailey walks with a cane after two knee replacement surgeries and needs help with housekeeping. So she was thrilled last summer when her Medicare Advantage plan, SummaCare, […]
2022-03-12 More Black Americans Are Buying Guns. Is It Driving Up Black Suicide Rates? Alex Smith, KCUR If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or text HOME to the Crisis Text Line at 741741. When Russell and Sharis Lewis want to unwind, they […]
2022-03-07 $35 Insulin Cap Is Welcome, Popular, and Bipartisan. But Congress May Not Pass It Anyway. Michael McAuliff Democrats in the Senate are primed this month to make their first attempt at salvaging one of the most popular elements of President Joe Biden’s stalled Build Back Better plan — the proposal to cap insulin […]
2022-03-05 Seeking to Shift Costs to Medicare, More Employers Move Retirees to Advantage Plans Susan Jaffe As a parting gesture to a pandemic-ravaged city, former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio hoped to provide the city with a gift that would keep on giving: new health insurance for 250,000 city retirees partly funded by […]
2022-03-04 HIV Preventive Care Is Supposed to Be Free in the US. So, Why Are Some Patients Still Paying? Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News Anthony Cantu, 31, counsels patients at a San Antonio health clinic about a daily pill shown to prevent HIV infection. Last summer, he started taking the medication himself, an approach […]