"Getting a vaccine is always an expression of brotherly love."
Health Insurance and Costs
Ever-rising health care costs keep jeopardizing the law and its effectiveness as a backstop for the uninsured and uninsurable.
In California, Filipino Americans constitute about 25% of the state’s Asian population yet they represent at least 35% of COVID-19 deaths in that group.
Despite red flags, the city was slow to come up with a COVID-19 response targeting the Latinx community.
Much of rural Texas is a maternity care desert with few doctors to deliver babies. In some other states, licensed midwives fill in to handle uncomplicated births. But roadblocks limit their practice here.
The city has long struggled to make progress in improving the health of mothers and newborns. Do these shutdowns lead to worse care?
This story was produced by Ida Mojadad, a participant in the 2019 Data Fellowship, who is investigating the efficacy of the health access program Healthy SF in San Francisco.
Her other stories include:
Workers may get cash payout from medical reimbursement accounts
Millions left sitting in medi
Hospitals and insurance companies use a variety of algorithms to calculate risk, but they don’t always yield equitable results.
“If we really cared, we would be getting the housing,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, a professor at UCSF. “Everything else follows.”
In Silicon Valley, the pandemic has exacerabated long-running inequities between places such as Atherton and East Palo Alto.