DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-03-03 Desperate for Cash: Programs for People With Disabilities Still Not Seeing Federal Funds Lauren Weber and Andy Miller LILBURN, Ga. — Matthew Southern, 35, who has intellectual and developmental disabilities, is able to stay out of an institution because health aides paid through a Medicaid program assist him and his roommate with ordinary […]
2022-02-02 Biden’s Blanket Statement — ‘No More Surprise Billing’ — Doesn’t Quite Cover It Victoria Knight “Millions of hardworking Americans will no longer have to worry about unexpected medical bills.” President Joe Biden, in a Feb. 10 speech about lowering health care costs. During a Feb. 10 speech about lowering health care costs, President […]
2022-03-01 The Demise of Single-Payer in California Trips Up Efforts in Other States Angela Hart SACRAMENTO — Single-payer health care didn’t stand a chance in California this year. Even in this deep-blue bastion, Democratic lawmakers shied away from legislation that would have put state government in charge of health care and taxed Californians heavily […]
2022-02-28 Health Care Firms Were Pushed to Confront Racism. Now Some Are Investing in Black Startups. Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Marcus Whitney stands out in Nashville’s $95 billion health care sector as an investor in startups. In addition to co-founding a venture capital firm, he’s organized an annual health tech […]
2022-02-26 An $80,000 Tab for Newborns Lays Out a Loophole in the New Law to Curb Surprise Bills Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News Photos by Heidi de Marco When Greg and Sugar Bull were ready to start a family, health challenges necessitated that they work with a gestational surrogate. The woman who carried and […]
2022-02-20 Missouri Takes Months to Process Medicaid Applications — Longer Than Law Allows Bram Sable-Smith and Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Aneka French applied for Medicaid in October, not long after Missouri became the 38th state to expand eligibility for the program. But her application sat for months in a backlog with tens of […]
2022-02-19 Demand for Service Dogs Unleashes a ‘Wild West’ Market Markian Hawryluk Jenni Mahnaz admits she’s not much of a dog person. She’s mildly allergic and the only pet she had as a child was a hermit crab. But once she learned that specially trained dogs could help her daughters with their […]
2022-02-18 What Does It Say About Your Neighborhood If the Supermarket Isn’t So Super? Chaseedaw Giles Though I grew up in Roxbury, “the heart of Black culture in Boston,” I now live in Los Angeles, where I typically shop for groceries at Whole Foods Market or Trader Joe’s. Their produce is fresh, green, abundant. […]
2022-02-17 Inside the Tactical Tug of War Over the Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug Arthur Allen The drug industry, patient advocates, and congressional Republicans have all attacked federal officials’ decision to decline routine Medicare coverage for a controversial Alzheimer’s drug. They’ve gone as far as to accuse them of tacit racism, ageism, and discrimination against the […]
2022-02-15 Why Millions on Medicaid Are at Risk of Losing Coverage in the Months Ahead Rachana Pradhan The Biden administration and state officials are bracing for a great unwinding: millions of people losing their Medicaid benefits when the pandemic health emergency ends. Some might sign up for different insurance. Many others are bound to […]