June 2023

This Rural California County Lost its Only Hospital, Leaving Residents with Dire Healthcare Choices By Melissa Gomez, Hannah Fry Photography By Genaro Molina June 6, 2023      MADERA, Calif. — It was dinnertime when Sabrina Baker, a mother of six, felt the familiar twinge of contractions. At first, she brushed it off as Braxton

The For-Profit Takeover of Medicare Is a Huge Scam By Matthew Cunningham-Cook & Andrew Perez May 26, 2023    The health insurance behemoth Humana enjoyed a banner 2022. The Louisville, Kentucky–based insurer made $2.8 billion in profits last year, while paying out $448 million in dividends to shareholders and more than $17 million in compensation

‘We’re at a standstill’: Patients can face agonizing waits for hospital transfers By Emily Alpert Reyes (Staff Writer) Photography By Francine Orr May 28, 2023    When the pain kicked in again in February, Lahisha Marquez-Soto held off on going to the hospital for days, until she was struggling to walk out of her college