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Shelter Sickness: Migrants See Health Problems Linger and Worsen While Waiting at the Border
Renuka Rayasam
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Two days after arriving at a temporary migrant shelter at the border with the U.S. in June, Rosa Viridiana Ceron Alpizar’s 9-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son fell ill. Most of the kids in the…
Buy and Bust: Collapse of Private Equity-Backed Rural Hospitals Mired Employees in Medical Bills
The first unexpected bill arrived in December, just weeks before Tara Lovell’s husband of 40 years died from bladder cancer.
Lovell worked as an ultrasound technologist at the local Audrain Community Hospital, in Mexico,…
After Wiping Out $6.7 Billion in Medical Debt, This Nonprofit Is Just Getting Started
Yuki Noguchi, NPR News
Soon after giving birth to a daughter two months premature, Terri Logan received a bill from the hospital. She recoiled from the string of numbers separated by commas.
Logan, who was a high school math…
On the Wisconsin-Illinois Border: Clinics in Neighboring States Team Up on Abortion Care
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Around two days a week, Natalee Hartwig leaves her home in Madison, Wisconsin, before her son wakes up to travel across the border into Illinois.
“Luckily it’s summer,” said Hartwig, a nurse midwife at…
Community Health Centers’ Big Profits Raise Questions About Federal Oversight
Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News and Bram Sable-Smith
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Just off the deserted town square, with its many boarded-up businesses, people lined up at the walk-up pharmacy window at Genesis Health Care, a federally…
‘Still a Lot of Pain’: Four Years After Mass Shooting, Texas Community Grapples With Fallout
If you or someone you know is in crisis, dial “988” for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or text HOME to the Crisis Text Line at 741741. (The previous phone number, 800-273-8255, will continue to function indefinitely.)…
For Medically Vulnerable Families, Inflation’s Squeeze Is Inescapable
ROSAMOND, Calif. — Deborah Lewis rose from bed before dawn and signed in to her phone so she could begin delivering fast food, coffee, and groceries to residents in this western patch of the Mojave Desert where test pilot Chuck…
Journalists Scrutinize Retail Giants’ Push Into Health Care and Government’s HIV Surveillance
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Watch: How Nursing Homes Put Friends and Families on the Hook for Residents’ Debts
Barbara Robinson was just trying to help her mother’s friend sign up for Medicaid and move into the Monroe County nursing home in Rochester, New York. But because Robinson signed the admissions form, the nursing home considered her…
Democrats Didn’t Achieve All Their Goals, but Inflation Reduction Act Makes Historic Medicare…
The giant health care, climate, and tax bill expected to pass the House on Friday and be sent to the president for his signature won’t be as sweeping as the Democrats who wrote it had hoped, but it would help millions of…