DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-07-28 The Ambulance Chased One Patient Into Collections Bram Sable-Smith In retrospect, Peggy Dula said, she shouldn’t have taken the ambulance. She was the least injured of the three siblings who were in a car when it was struck by a pickup truck last September. Her daughter had even offered to come to […]
2022-07-27 ‘True Cost of Aging’ Index Shows Many Seniors Can’t Afford Basic Necessities Judith Graham Fran Seeley, 81, doesn’t see herself as living on the edge of a financial crisis. But she’s uncomfortably close. Each month, Seeley, a retired teacher, gets $925 from Social Security and a $287 disbursement from an individual […]
2022-07-22 How sustainable are fake meats? Marketed to meat lovers, plant-based burgers like Impossible and Beyond claim to taste like the real thing and to have far lighter environmental footprints. Here’s what the numbers have to say. By Bob Holmes If you’re an environmentally aware meat-eater, you probably carry at least a little guilt […]
2022-07-20 California’s Public Health Tax Is Dead for the Year Angela Hart SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A ballot initiative that would have raised taxes on California millionaires and billionaires to fund public health programs and pandemic prevention is dead — at least for this year. The Silicon Valley tech executives who bankrolled the measure, […]
2022-07-19 FTC Official: Antitrust Push in Health Care Must Focus on a Merger’s ‘Human Impact’ Harris Meyer President Joe Biden has ordered the Federal Trade Commission to combat consolidation in the health care industry, saying that it is driving up prices for consumers and limiting their access to care. The new Democratic majority […]
2022-07-18 In Afghanistan, a Quiet Epidemic of Mass Psychogenic Illness by Lynzy Billing In April 2021, Anita was lying on a stained bed in the women’s room of the psychiatric ward in Herat Regional Hospital, a government-run facility in western Afghanistan. Stiff and covered in sweat, the 20-year-old was unresponsive. It was 8 a.m. and […]
2022-07-16 Her Ex-Husband Is Suing a Clinic Over the Abortion She Had Four Years Ago by Nicole Santa Cruz ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Nearly four years after a woman ended an unwanted pregnancy with abortion pills […]
2022-07-12 The City Where Investigations of Police Take So Long, Officers Kill Again Before Reviews Are Done by Laurence Du Sault, Open Vallejo ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Around dinner time on Feb. 13, 2018, Ronell Foster […]
2022-07-11 Medi-Cal’s Reliance on Prisoners to Make Cheaper Eyeglasses Proves Shortsighted Colleen DeGuzman To dodge hefty costs for eyewear, California’s health insurance program for low-income people, Medi-Cal, has an innovative strategy: It contracts exclusively with the state’s prisons, and inmates make glasses for its beneficiaries. But the partnership that began more than 30 […]
2022-07-09 Feds Want a Policy That Advocates Say Would Let Hospitals Off the Hook for Covid-Era Lapses Lauren Weber The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is responding to the chaos of the covid-19 pandemic by proposing to hide from the public a rating that lets consumers compare hospitals’ safety records and to […]