Ever-rising health care costs keep jeopardizing the law and its effectiveness as a backstop for the uninsured and uninsurable.
Healthcare Systems & Policy
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.
Dr. Thomas’ “continued practice of medicine would pose an immediate danger to the public and to his patients," the Oregon Medical Board said.
The impact of the pandemic on young children in California, especially children of color, has been severe. A new reporting project will analyze key indicators.
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.
Two Texas hospitals performed episiotomies at rates four to six times the recommended level last year. But women giving birth should know: You have the final say.
Whether a woman delivers by cesarean has less to do with her health than the hospital she goes to. Case in point: Doctors Hospital of Laredo, where rates of surgical intervention during childbirth are way above the norm. Experts say something isn’t right.
The city has long struggled to make progress in improving the health of mothers and newborns. Do these shutdowns lead to worse care?
What has the pandemic changed about the lives of children of farmworkers in Florida?