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Looming Cuts to Emergency SNAP Benefits Threaten Food Security in Rural America
ELKO, Nev. — On a cold morning in early February, Tammy King prepared and loaded boxes and bags of vegetables, fruits, milk, frozen meat, and snacks into cars lined up outside the Friends in Service Helping food pantry, known in…
Proposed Medicare Advantage Changes Cannot Accurately Be Called ‘Cuts,’ Experts Say
Madison Czopek, PolitiFact and Yacob Reyes, PolitiFact
“It’s President Biden who is proposing to cut Medicare Advantage.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in a tweet on February 6, 2023
More than 60 million people rely on Medicare for…
A Bitter Battle Over the ‘Orphan Drug’ Program Leaves Patients’ Pocketbooks at Risk
A prescription drug that helps Lore Wilkinson walk and talk despite a rare muscle disease cost her so little for more than a decade that she didn’t even use her insurance to pay for it. But now, her Medicare insurance is shelling…
Cleanup Workers Got Sick After Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. They Want BP to Pay.
Christopher O’Donnell, Tampa Bay Times and Max Chesnes, Tampa Bay Times
The oil washed ashore every day, globs of tarlike ooze blighting sugar-white sand beaches. Rodney Boblitt’s job was to report it.
A special agent for…
A Law Was Meant to Free Sick or Aging Inmates. Instead, Some Are Left to Die in Prison.
Jimmy Dee Stout was serving time on drug charges when he got grim news early last year.
Doctors told Stout, now 62, the sharp pain and congestion in his chest were caused by stage 4 lung cancer, a terminal condition.
“I’m…
Why Do Politicians Weaponize Medicare? Because It Works
Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News
The Medicare wars are back, and almost no one in Washington is surprised.
This time it’s Democrats accusing Republicans of wanting to maim the very popular federal health program that covers 64 million…
Journalist Angela Hart Furnishes Framework on Homelessness in California
KHN senior correspondent Angela Hart discussed homelessness in California and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s legacy on KPBS’ “Midday Edition” on Feb. 9. She discussed the same issue on Cap Radio’s “Insight” on Feb. 13.
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Senators Say Health Worker Shortages Ripe for Bipartisan Compromise
Senators are eying the growing shortage of health care workers in the United States as one of the few problems where there is room for bipartisan solutions, even in a deeply divided Congress gearing up for a presidential election…
California requiere que hospitales recurran a familiares cercanos de pacientes para decisiones…
Mark Kreidler
Hace unos cuatro años, el doctor Gene Dorio formó parte del comité de ética de un hospital del sur de California cuyos administradores insistían en que ellos podían decidir si desconectaban el respirador de un paciente…
California Requires Hospitals to Turn to a Patient’s Next of Kin, Closing a Longtime Loophole
Mark Kreidler
About four years ago, Dr. Gene Dorio sat on the ethics committee of a Southern California hospital whose administrators insisted they could decide whether to disconnect a ventilator from an unconscious patient — even though…