DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-06-23 Dementia Can Take a Toll on Financial Health, as Some Families Learn the Hard Way Sarah Boden, WESA Angela Reynolds knew her mother’s memory was slipping, but she didn’t realize how bad things had gotten until she started to untangle her mom’s finances: unpaid bills, unusual cash withdrawals, and the discovery that, […]
2023-06-22 Medical Exiles: Families Flee States Amid Crackdown on Transgender Care Bram Sable-Smith and Daniel Chang and Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez and Sandy West Hal Dempsey wanted to “escape Missouri.” Arlo Dennis is “fleeing Florida.” The Tillison family “can’t stay in Texas.” They are part of a new migration of Americans who are uprooting […]
2023-06-21 California’s Homelessness Crisis Is Homegrown, Study Finds Angela Hart SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s homelessness crisis is a homegrown problem that is deepening amid a shortage of affordable housing and emergency shelter, and it’s often the brutal conditions of living on the street that trigger behavioral health problems, such as depression and anxiety, […]
2023-06-20 Doctor Lands in the Doghouse After Giving Covid Vaccine Waivers Too Freely Brett Kelman A Tennessee doctor has lost his medical license for issuing covid-19 vaccine waivers to patients he never met in at least three states. One, it turned out, was a dog named Charlie Kraus. Robert Coble, 76, of Goodspring, Tennessee, agreed […]
2023-06-19 International Rights Group Calls Out US for Allowing Hospitals to Push Millions Into Debt Noam N. Levey Human Rights Watch, the nonprofit that for decades has called attention to the victims of war, famine, and political repression around the world, is taking aim at U.S. hospitals for pushing millions of American patients […]
2023-06-18 Opioid Settlement Payouts to Localities Made Public for First Time Aneri Pattani Thousands of local governments nationwide are receiving settlement money from companies that made, sold, or distributed opioid painkillers, like Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, and Walmart. The companies are shelling out more than $50 billion total in settlements from national lawsuits. […]
2023-06-17 Fraudsters Are Duping Homeless People Into Signing Up for ACA Plans They Can’t Afford Daniel Chang MIAMI — Mary Zhelyazkova was surprised when pharmacists at Florida’s largest safety net hospital said they could not fill her prescription. Zhelyazkova, 40, was living at a homeless shelter and needed Suboxone, a medication to manage […]
2023-06-16 At Least 1.7M Americans Use Health Sharing Arrangements, Despite Lack of Protections Markian Hawryluk A new report has provided the first national count of Americans who rely on health care sharing plans — arrangements through which people agree to pay one another’s medical bills — and the number is higher than previously […]
2023-06-15 Foster Kids in Casino Hotels? It Happened in Rural Nevada Amid Widespread Foster Home Shortages Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez ELKO, Nev. — Brandy Holbrook spent April driving hundreds of miles across four counties in northeastern Nevada to deliver a plea to local leaders about a smoldering crisis in the regional foster care system. […]
2023-06-14 Biden Admin Implores States to Slow Medicaid Cuts After More Than 1M Enrollees Dropped Hannah Recht Too many Americans are losing Medicaid coverage because of red tape, and states should do more to make sure eligible people keep their health insurance, the Biden administration said Monday. More than a million Americans have […]