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Watch: Payback for the Opioid Crisis: How Did the Sackler Family Skirt Liability?
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Gobernador de California y legisladores demócratas discrepan sobre el uso de miles de millones de…
SACRAMENTO – Cuando el gobernador Gavin Newsom asumió el cargo hace cuatro años, el demócrata arremetió contra los republicanos a nivel nacional ante su intento de destruir la…
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More States OK Postpartum Medicaid Coverage Beyond Two Months
Matt Volz
At least eight states this year have decided to seek federal approval to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage, leaving just a handful that have opted not to guarantee at…
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As Medicaid Purge Begins, ‘Staggering Numbers’ of Americans Lose Coverage
More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since pandemic protections ended on April 1. And a KFF Health News analysis of state data shows the vast majority were…
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Health Care Coalition Jockeys Over Medi-Cal Spending, Eyes Ballot Initiative
SACRAMENTO — Influential health care interests are jockeying over a potential infusion of $19.4 billion into Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, while also angling for a…
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How a Medical Recoding May Limit Cancer Patients’ Options for Breast Reconstruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhL7IaQMrEg
The federal government is reconsidering a decision that breast cancer patients, plastic surgeons, and members of Congress have…
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Readers and Tweeters Weigh Marijuana’s Merits Against Those of Alcohol or Opioids
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On Alcohol Abuse:…
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California Governor and Democratic Lawmakers at Odds Over Billions in Health Care Funds
Angela Hart
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Gov. Gavin Newsom took office four years ago, the Democrat went after Republicans on the national stage as they sought to gut the Affordable…
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Many People Living in the ‘Diabetes Belt’ Are Plagued With Medical Debt
Robert Benincasa, NPR and Nick McMillan, NPR
Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 when she was working in a weaving plant near her home in Bennettsville, South Carolina,…
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Mammograms at 40? Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines Spark Fresh Debate
While physicians mostly applauded a government-appointed panel’s recommendation that women get routine mammography screening for breast cancer starting at age 40, down from…
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