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One Texas Judge Will Decide Fate of Abortion Pill Used by Millions of American Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNnAQD24GFc
AMARILLO, Texas — Federal judges in Texas have delivered time and again for abortion opponents.
They upheld a state law that allows for $10,000 bounties to be placed on anyone who…
California Dangles Bonuses for Nursing Homes That Add Staff
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is revamping how it rewards nursing homes to get them to improve patient care.
Rather than limit bonuses to top-performing facilities, the state will hand out additional Medicaid payments next…
Montana Seeks to Insulate Nursing Homes From Future Financial Crises
Wes Thompson, administrator of Valley View Home in the northeastern Montana town of Glasgow, believes the only reasons his skilled nursing facility has avoided the fate of the 11 nursing homes that closed in the state last year…
California dice que ya no puede costear las pruebas de covid ni las vacunas para los migrantes
Durante todo el día, y a veces hasta altas horas de la noche, buses y furgonetas llegan a tres centros de reconocimiento médico financiados por el estado cerca de la frontera sur de California con México. Los funcionarios…
Fin de beneficios extra de SNAP por la pandemia amenazan la seguridad alimentaria en zonas rurales
Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez
Elko, Nevada. – En una mañana fría a principios de febrero, Tammy King llenó y cargó cajas y bolsas de vegetales, frutas, leche, carne congelada y refrigerios en autos alineados frente al banco de alimentos…
Ante vacío federal, estados promueven leyes duras contra el uso de sustancias tóxicas en cosméticos
Michael Scaturro
Washington se unió a más de una docena de estados en tomar medidas enérgicas contra las sustancias tóxicas en cosméticos después que un estudio financiado por el estado encontró plomo, arsénico y formaldehído en…
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…