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As Covid Grabbed the World’s Attention, Texas’ Efforts to Control TB Slipped
Narciso Lopez has spent more than two decades working to control the spread of tuberculosis in South Texas. He used to think that when patient traffic into the clinics where he worked was slow, that meant the surrounding community…
Republican Lawmakers Shy Away From Changing Montana’s Constitutional Right to Abortion
Katheryn Houghton
Republican lawmakers in Montana wield a supermajority that gives them the power to ask voters to approve a constitutional amendment that would break the link between abortion rights and the right to privacy in the…
Watch: In Insurers’ Eyes, Not All Midwives Are Equal
February 15, 2023
Vanessa Garcia Clark wanted a more personal, nontraditional birth when she was pregnant with her son. She hired a midwife and gave birth at her home in California. But when she asked…
As Opioids Mixed With Animal Tranquilizers Arrive in Kensington, So Do Alarming Health Challenges
Many people living on the streets in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood — the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — are in full-blown addiction, openly snorting, smoking, or injecting illicit drugs, hunched over…
Armed With Hashtags, These Activists Made Insulin Prices a Presidential Talking Point
Hannah Crabtree got active on Twitter in 2016 to find more people like herself: those with Type 1 diabetes who’d hacked their insulin pumps to automatically adjust the amount of insulin delivered.
Soon, though, Crabtree found a…
In California, Democrats Propose $25 Minimum Wage for Health Workers
Samantha Young
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Union-aligned Democrats were set to introduce legislation Wednesday mandating a statewide $25 minimum wage for health workers and support staffers, likely setting up a pitched battle with hospitals,…
Special Delivery: Heart-Heavy Health Policy Valentines
This year’s health policy valentine submissions were full of compassion for patients and concern over the nation’s health care system.
KHN’s readers and tweeters are among the most creative news consumers, sending in poetic valentines…
It Takes a Village: Foster Program Is a New Model of Care for Indigenous Children
LA PLANT, S.D. — Past a gravel road lined with old white wooden buildings is a new, 8-acre village dotted with colorful houses, tepees, and a sweat lodge.
The Simply Smiles Children’s Village, in this small town on the Cheyenne…
Your Money or Your Life: Patient on $50,000-a-Week Cancer Drug Fears Leaving Behind Huge Medical…
After several rounds of treatment for a rare eye cancer — weekly drug infusions that could cost nearly $50,000 each — Paul Davis learned Medicare had abruptly stopped paying the bills.
That left Davis, a retired physician in…
Montana’s Tax-Exempt Hospitals Oppose Increased Oversight by State Officials
Nonprofit hospitals are fighting Montana’s attempt to boost oversight of the ways they claim they provide benefits to their communities in exchange for millions of dollars in tax breaks.
It’s the latest clash in a national…