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‘American Diagnosis’: When Indigenous People Move to Cities, Health Care Funding Doesn’t Follow
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Episode 12: Indigenous and Invisible in the Big City…
Health Plan Shake-Up Could Disrupt Coverage for Low-Income Californians
Almost 2 million of California’s poorest and most medically fragile residents may have to switch health insurers as a result of a new strategy by the state to improve care in its Medicaid program.
A first-ever statewide…
At This Recovery Center, Police Cope With the Mental Health Costs of the Job
Katja Ridderbusch
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — Ken Beyer can’t think of a day in the past few months when his phone didn’t flutter with calls, text messages, and emails from a police department, a sheriff’s office, or a fire station seeking…
Britain’s Hard Lessons From Handing Elder Care Over to Private Equity
Christine Spolar
LONDON — A little over a decade ago, Four Seasons Health Care was among the largest long-term care home companies in Britain, operating 500 sites with 20,000 residents and more than 60 specialist centers. Domestic and…
Is Covid ‘Under Control’ in the US? Experts Say Yes
Promise: “I’m never going to raise the white flag and surrender. We’re going to beat this virus. We’re going to get it under control, I promise you.”
President Joe Biden caused a stir in a “60 Minutes” interview on Sept. 18…
Embedded Bias: How Medical Records Sow Discrimination
Darius Tahir
David Confer, a bicyclist and an audio technician, told his doctor he “used to be Ph.D. level” during a 2019 appointment in Washington, D.C. Confer, then 50, was speaking figuratively: He was experiencing brain fog — a…
Journalists Dissect Medical Coding and Parse the President’s Words
KHN freelancer Helen Santoro discussed insurance coverage for transgender medical care on KCRW’s “Press Play with Madeleine Brand” on Sept. 21.
Click here to hear Santoro on “Press Play With Madeleine Brand”Read Santoro’s “Medical…
Pruebas genéticas crean oportunidades de tratamiento, pero también confusión, entre las pacientes de…
La última década ha sido testigo de una rápida expansión de las pruebas genéticas, que incluyen nuevos instrumentos para informar a las pacientes, a las que se les ha diagnosticado cáncer de mama, sobre el riesgo de recurrencia y…
Padres con hijos muy enfermos encuentran consuelo y esperanza en la ayuda de hospicio en el hogar
Pomona, California.- Cuando conoces por primera vez a Aaron Martinez, de 17 meses, no es evidente que algo está catastróficamente mal.
Lo que ves es un hermoso niño pequeño con piel suave y brillante, abundante cabello castaño…
Shattered Dreams and Bills in the Millions: Losing a Baby in America
Lauren Weber
The day after his 8-month-old baby died, Kingsley Raspe opened the mail and found he had been sent to collections for her care.
That notice involved a paltry sum, $26.50 — absurd really, given he’d previously been told he…