Open records requests revealed something that I didn’t expect to find. I assumed that state health agencies handled state health programs. I was wrong.
Health Insurance and Costs
Good mining jobs with good benefits can counterintuitively hurt access to care.
For nearly two decades, the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program in Texas has filed repayment claims against Medicaid recipients after they die, threatening the inheritances of vulnerable Texans.
Vaping and other smokeless alternative forms of nicotine have proliferated as cigarette substitutes, creating in turn new types of addiction in adolescent users.
President Biden decided to put off a plan to ban menthol cigarettes until March after several civil rights groups argued that the ban would unfairly target African Americans.
He says treatment can help unhoused people, survivors of domestic violence.
More than half of Nevada counties do not have a hospital that provides routine labor and delivery and is without an OB-GYN. The first story to kick off the series: The Long Road to Maternal Care.
Does expanding access to doulas result in better health for low-income mothers and their babies?
Washington Post reporter Christopher Rowland is telling powerful narratives of older Americans who have been snared in our woefully deficient long-term care system.
In this webinar, we examined how the loss of the pandemic’s Medicaid protections has impacted vulnerable families and what the sudden loss of public insurance means for families’ health.