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California’s Resolve Questioned After It Grants Medi-Cal Contract Concessions
California’s decision last month to cancel the results of a long-planned bidding competition among commercial health plans in its Medicaid program has some industry insiders and consumer advocates wondering whether the state can…
Florida Gov. DeSantis Falsely Claims Bivalent Booster Boosts Chances of Covid Infection
Yacob Reyes, PolitiFact
“Almost every study now has said with these new boosters, you’re more likely to get infected with the bivalent booster.”
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, on Jan. 17, 2023, during a press conference…
More Californians Are Dying at Home. Another Covid ‘New Normal’?
Phillip Reese
The covid-19 pandemic has spurred a surge in the proportion of Californians who are dying at home rather than in a hospital or nursing home, accelerating a slow but steady rise that dates back at least two decades.…
Unmet Needs: Critics Cite Failures in Health Care for Vulnerable Foster Children
One night last month, a 9-year-old boy who had autism and talked about killing himself was among about 70 foster care children and youth under state supervision sleeping in hotels across Georgia.
Georgia’s designated…
Wave of Rural Nursing Home Closures Grows Amid Staffing Crunch
WAUKON, Iowa — Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she’d lived comfortably for six years.
The Good Samaritan Society facility in Postville, Iowa, would close,…
Adolescentes latinos se entrenan para educar sobre las vacunas contra covid
Los compañeros de clase paran a menudo a Alma Gallegos en los bulliciosos pasillos de la secundaria Theodore Roosevelt, en el sureste de Fresno. Le preguntan a la estudiante de 17 años sobre pruebas para covid-19, la seguridad de…
Watch: Fifty Years after ‘Roe,’ Abortion Rights Battle Shifts to the States
Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News
Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade, granting federal constitutional protection for the right to seek an abortion. Last year, a very different…
As States Seek to Limit Abortions, Montana Wants to Redefine What Is Medically Necessary
Montana’s conservative leaders, stymied by the courts from passing laws that impose significant statewide abortion restrictions, seek to tighten the state’s Medicaid rules to make it more difficult for low-income women to receive…
Latino Teens Are Deputized as Health Educators to Sway the Unvaccinated
Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News
Classmates often stop Alma Gallegos as she makes her way down the bustling hallways of Theodore Roosevelt High School in southeast Fresno, California. The 17-year-old senior is frequently asked by…
Watch: Anti-Abortion Activists Rally in DC in a Watershed Moment for Their Movement
By Sarah Varney
January 23, 2023
Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News
Thousands of anti-abortion activists descended on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20 for the annual…