2023-11-30 Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Makes Other Public Assistance Harder to Get Katheryn Houghton and Rachana Pradhan and Samantha Liss MISSOULA, Mont. — An hour before sunrise, Shelly Brost walked a mile in freezing rain to the public assistance office. She was running out of time to prove she still qualified for food aid after […]

    2023-11-30 ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Thousands of Private Wells Near Military Sites, Study Finds Patricia Kime Water tests show nearly 3,000 private wells located near 63 active and former U.S. military bases are contaminated with “forever chemicals” at levels higher than what federal regulators consider safe for drinking. According to the Environmental Working Group, […]

    2023-11-29 Progressive and Anti-Abortion? New Group Plays Fast and Loose to Make Points Darius Tahir This summer pedestrians, drivers, and passengers in Washington, D.C., saw a new type of graffiti among the usual urban scrawls: anti-abortion advocacy designed to troll this ultra-blue city. On sidewalks, on bridge overpasses, and near Metro stations some […]

    2023-11-28 Many Autoimmune Disease Patients Struggle With Diagnosis, Costs, Inattentive Care Andy Miller After years of debilitating bouts of fatigue, Beth VanOrden finally thought she had an answer to her problems in 2016 when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune disorder. For her and millions of other Americans, that’s the most […]

    2023-11-27 From Hospital to Hospitality: Spin Doctors Brand Getting Sick as an Adventure. It’s Not. Elisabeth Rosenthal The last time I stepped on a plane for vacation, for fun, was more than three years ago. I haven’t been able to visit California, whose coast I adore. Nor Rome, where my husband and I […]

    2023-11-26 Why Long-Term Care Insurance Falls Short for So Many Jordan Rau, KFF Health News and JoNel Aleccia, KFF Health News For 35 years, Angela Jemmott and her five brothers paid premiums on a long-term care insurance policy for their 91-year-old mother. But the policy does not cover home health aides whose assistance […]

    2023-11-25 Evolving Overdose Crisis Shakes Previously Effective Treatments Taylor Sisk BURLINGTON, Vt. — “You can’t inject a horse tranquilizer and think nothing bad is gonna happen” to you, said Ty Sears, 33, a longtime drug user now in recovery. Sears was referring to xylazine, a sedative used for animal surgeries that has infiltrated […]

    2023-11-24 Lost in the Mix of Medicaid ‘Unwinding’: Kentucky Cut Off Her Health Care Over a Clerical Error Rachana Pradhan The day her Medicaid coverage ended, Beverly Likens was in the hospital after a scary trip to the emergency room. The Kentucky resident was diagnosed with severe anemia and given a blood transfusion […]

    2023-11-23 Out for Blood? For Routine Lab Work, the Hospital Billed Her $2,400 Rachana Pradhan Reesha Ahmed was on cloud nine. It was January and Ahmed was at an OB-GYN’s office near her home in Venus, Texas, for her first prenatal checkup. After an ultrasound, getting anti-nausea medication, and discussing her pregnancy care […]

    2023-11-22 US Military Says National Security Depends on ‘Forever Chemicals’ Patricia Kime The Department of Defense relies on hundreds, if not thousands, of weapons and products such as uniforms, batteries, and microelectronics that contain PFAS, a family of chemicals linked to serious health conditions. Now, as regulators propose restrictions on their use or […]