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Hospitals and Doctors Are Fed up With Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage plans are pretty popular with both lawmakers and ordinary Americans — they now enroll about 31 million people, representing just over half of everyone in Medicare, by KFF’s count.
But among doctors and…
GOP Presidential Hopefuls Use Trump’s Covid Record to Court Vaccine Skeptics
Former President Donald Trump often seems proud to advertise his administration’s record on speedily developing covid-19 vaccines.
On the campaign trail to win another term in the White House, though, he also has knocked the…
Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Makes Other Public Assistance Harder to Get
MISSOULA, Mont. — An hour before sunrise, Shelly Brost walked a mile in freezing rain to the public assistance office. She was running out of time to prove she still qualified for food aid after being stymied by a backlogged state…
Medicaid’s ‘Unwinding’ Can Be Especially Perilous for Disabled People
Earlier this year, Beverly Likens thought she’d done everything she needed to do to keep her Medicaid. Then came an unwelcome surprise: Ahead of surgery to treat chronic bleeding, the hospital said her insurance was inactive,…
She Once Advised the President on Aging Issues. Now, She’s Battling Serious Disability and…
Judith Graham
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Back Pain? Bum Knee? Be Prepared to Wait for a Physical Therapist
Mark Kreidler
At no point along his three-year path to earning a degree in physical therapy has Matthew Lee worried about getting a job.
Being able to make a living off that degree? That’s a different question — and the…
La atención de salud, en el centro del debate entre DeSantis y Newsom
Daniel Chang and Angela Hart
Florida
Gobernador Ron DeSantisEdad: 45Población de Florida: 22.2 million
California
Gobernador Gavin NewsomEdad: 56Población de California: 39 million
El candidato presidencial…
How the Thyroid Gland Mystifies Doctors and Patients
By Oona Tempest and Andy Miller
November 27, 2023
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Oona Tempest and Andy Miller
About 25 years ago, Andy Miller learned he had hypothyroidism, a condition that…
Many Autoimmune Disease Patients Struggle With Diagnosis, Costs, Inattentive Care
After years of debilitating bouts of fatigue, Beth VanOrden finally thought she had an answer to her problems in 2016 when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune disorder.
For her and millions of other…
Backlash to Affirmative Action Hits Pioneering Maternal Health Program for Black Women
For Briana Jones, a young Black mother in San Francisco, a city program called the Abundant Birth Project has been a godsend.
Designed to counter the “obstetric racism” that researchers say leads a disproportionate number of…