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Lo que hay que saber para no perder Medicaid
El sistema de seguro médico de la nación está en plena convulsión: cerca de 8,2 millones de personas necesitan encontrar nueva cobertura desde que terminaron en abril las protecciones para los beneficiarios de Medicaid por la…
Medi-Cal Covers Gender-Transition Treatment, but Getting It Isn’t Easy
Bernard J. Wolfson
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — From an early age, Pasha Wrangell felt different. Societal expectations of boys, and many characteristics of masculinity, did not match how Wrangell felt inside.
Bullied and…
Lost Medicaid Health Coverage? Here’s What You Need to Know
Samantha Liss
The nation’s health insurance system is undergoing tremendous upheaval as an estimated 8.2 million people will need to find new coverage since pandemic protections for Medicaid enrollees came to an end this spring.…
Voters Rejected an Anti-Abortion Measure. State GOP Lawmakers Passed a Similar Bill Anyway.
In the months following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision that gave states the power to ban abortion, voters in a half-dozen states spoke on the issue — and, in every case, chose to uphold abortion rights or reject an attempt to…
Pioneering Study Links Testicular Cancer Among Military Personnel to ‘Forever Chemicals’
Gary Flook served in the Air Force for 37 years, as a firefighter at the now-closed Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois and the former Grissom Air Force Base in Indiana, where he regularly trained with aqueous film forming foam, or…
As a Union Pushes to Cap Hospital CEO Pay, It’s Accused of Playing Politics
LOS ANGELES — The aim is aspirational: Hospital executives shouldn’t make more than the president of the United States.
Next spring, Los Angeles city voters will have a chance to put the brake on runaway salaries by capping…
Amid Lack of Accountability for Bias in Maternity Care, a California Family Seeks Justice
Aniya was ready to leave. She was dressed in a fuzzy white onesie her mother had packed for her first trip home. Yet Aniya’s family had more questions than answers as they cradled the newborn out of the hospital, her mother’s body…
Seeking Medicare Coverage for Weight Loss Drugs, Pharma Giant Courts Black Influencers
Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has turned to influential Black Americans in pursuit of what would be a lucrative victory: having Medicare cover a new class of weight loss drugs, including the company’s highly sought Wegovy,…
What One Lending Company’s Hospital Contracts Reveal About Financing Patient Debt
With tens of millions of Americans burdened by medical debt, hospitals and other medical providers are increasingly shuttling their patients into loans serviced by banks, credit cards, and other financial services companies.…
How the Texas Trial Changed the Story of Abortion Rights in America
During the five decades that followed Roe v. Wade, lawsuit after lawsuit in states across the country chipped away at abortion rights. And again and again, the people who went to court to defend those rights were physicians who…