2023-06-03 How to Negotiate With Resistant Aging Parents? Borrow These Tips From the Business World Judith Graham You’ve reached a standstill with your mother and father, who are in their late 80s. You think they need some help in the home, but they vigorously refuse. You’re frustrated because you want to make their […]

    2023-06-02 As Medicaid Purge Begins, ‘Staggering Numbers’ of Americans Lose Coverage Hannah Recht More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since pandemic protections ended on April 1. And a KFF Health News analysis of state data shows the vast majority were removed from state rolls for not completing paperwork. Under normal circumstances, […]

2023-06-01 Mood-Altering Mushroom Sales Bloom Despite Safety Concerns Sam Ogozalek, Tampa Bay Times TAMPA, Fla. — When a hemp dispensary in this Florida city started to stock edibles with certain mushroom extracts last year, state regulators quickly ordered it to stop selling the items. The shop had been advertising fruit-flavored gummies and other products containing […]

    2023-05-31 Many People Living in the ‘Diabetes Belt’ Are Plagued With Medical Debt Robert Benincasa, NPR and Nick McMillan, NPR Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 when she was working in a weaving plant near her home in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and the world around her seemed to go dim. She […]

    2023-05-30 A Catch-22 for Clinics: State Bans Limit Abortion Counseling. Federal Title X Rules Require It. Rachana Pradhan State abortion bans in Tennessee and beyond, which constrain women’s health care, have put family planning clinics at risk of losing their federal funding. The conflict involves the Title X family planning program, which provides […]

    2023-05-29 California Hospitals Seek a Broad Bailout, but They Don’t All Need It Samantha Young and Angela Hart SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One of the country’s richest hospitals, which caters to Hollywood elites, accepted nearly $28 million last year from an unusual source: a charity that siphons money from other California hospitals, many of […]

    2023-05-28 This Panel Will Decide Whose Medicine to Make Affordable. Its Choice Will Be Tricky. Markian Hawryluk Catherine Reitzel’s multiple sclerosis medication costs nearly $100,000 a year. Kris Garcia relies on a drug for a blood-clotting disorder that runs $10,000 for a three-day supply. And Mariana Marquez-Farmer would likely die within days without […]

    2023-05-27 Small, Rural Communities Have Become Abortion Access Battlegrounds Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez WEST WENDOVER, Nev. — In April, Mark Lee Dickson arrived in this 4,500-person city that hugs the Utah-Nevada border to pitch an ordinance banning abortion. Dickson is the director of the anti-abortion group Right to Life of East Texas and founder […]

    2023-05-26 California’s Fentanyl Problem Is Getting Worse Don Thompson California has allocated more than $1 billion in recent years to combat its opioid crisis. Much of the money has been used to distribute fentanyl test strips and the overdose reversal drug naloxone, as well as deliver medical care to people who are homeless. […]

    2023-05-25 He Returned to the US for His Daughter’s Wedding. He Left With a $42,000 Hospital Bill. Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News Last June, Jay Comfort flew to the United States from his home in Switzerland to attend his only daughter’s wedding. But the week before the ceremony — on a Friday […]