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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 […]

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

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

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 California bill would punish insurers for giving customers outdated info by Ryan Sabalow July 29, 2024; Updated July 30, 2024  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

Pluralistic: The long lineage of private equity’s looting by Cory Doctorow June 2, 2023   Fans of the Sopranos will remember the “bust out” as a mob tactic in which a business is taken over, loaded up with debt, and driven into the ground, wrecking the lives of the business’s workers, customers and suppliers. When

When private equity destroys your hospital by Cory Doctorow February 28, 2024   As someone who writes a lot of fiction about corporate crime, I naturally end up spending a lot of time being angry about corporate crime. It’s pretty goddamned enraging. But the fiction writer in me is especially upset at how cartoonishly evil

Private Equity in Health Care: Prevalence, Impact and Policy Options for California and the U.S. By Christopher Cai, Resident Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Zirui Song, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine, Harvard Medical School May 7, 2024   At its most recent peak in 2021, private equity (PE) investment into the broad