Money-making L.A. hospitals quit delivering babies. Inside the fight to keep one labor ward open by Kristen Hwang, Ana B. Ibarra and Erica Yee June 6, 2024 Detranay Blankenship was 16 weeks pregnant when she found out she was expecting. The days passed quickly, and soon she was 7 centimeters dilated at Martin Luther […]
‘Poster Child for…Corporate Greed’: Sanders Slams Health Industry CEO’s Subpoena Refusal By Brett Wilkins September 04, 2024 U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blasted Dr. Ralph de la Torre—the CEO of a bankrupt health services company “who has made hundreds of millions of dollars ripping off patients and healthcare providers”—for refusing to comply with
As COVID Emergency Funding Sunsets, Public Health Faces Budget Cuts and Layoffs By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, KFF Health News September 9, 2024 Even as federal aid poured into state budgets in response to the covid-19 pandemic, public health leaders warned of a boom-and-bust funding cycle on the horizon as the emergency ended and federal
Children in Gaza will be protected from polio but not Israel’s airstrikes By Yara M. Asi September 6, 2024 At the beginning of the month, a joint effort bringing together the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, UNRWA, and other partners, started in an effort to vaccinate 640,000 children in
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Why I Left The Network By Annie Waldman, Maya Miller, Duaa Eldeib and Max Blau, photography by Tony Luong, special to ProPublica, design by Zisiga Mukulu August 25, 2024 They studied, honed their skills and opened practices, joining health insurance networks that put them within reach of people who couldn’t afford to pay for
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A California Medical Group Treats Only Homeless Patients — And Makes Money Doing It By Emily Alpert Reyes; Staff Writer August 20, 2024 LOS ANGELES — They distribute GPS devices so they can track their homeless patients. They stock their street kits with glass pipes used to smoke meth, crack, or fentanyl. They keep
Nearly $1 billion in funds left unspent by centers for disabled Californians By Emily Alpert Reyes; Staff Writer August 20, 2024 Nearly $1 billion allocated for regional agencies that purchase supportive services for Californians with developmental disabilities went unspent in a recent year and was ultimately returned to the state, even as some disabled
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Can’t find a doctor? California bill would punish insurers for giving customers outdated info by Ryan Sabalow July 29, 2024; Updated July 30, 2024
This Company Promised to Improve Health Care in Jails. Dozens of Its Patients Have Died. By Cary Aspinwall, Brianna Bailey and Sachi Mcclendon July 30, 2024 NORMAN, Oklahoma — Two days after Thanksgiving in 2022, Shannon Hanchett walked into an AT&T store for a new phone, and ended up in handcuffs. Hanchett ran
What Elmo — and his human friends — learned by asking Americans about their mental health by Karen Kaplan August 15, 2024 Remember when Elmo went viral in January by asking folks on the Internet how they were doing and briefly became the unofficial therapist of X? “The world is burning, Elmo,” an
