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Conservative Blocs Unleash Litigation to Curb Public Health Powers
Through a wave of pandemic-related litigation, a trio of small but mighty conservative legal blocs has rolled back…
Listen: Why Medical Debt Touches Every Corner of America
KHN’s Noam N. Levey talks with Sasha-Ann Simons of WBEZ about America’s sprawling medical debt crisis. Levey explains that the…
California’s Public Health Tax Is Dead for the Year
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A ballot initiative that would have raised taxes on California millionaires and billionaires to…
Nurse Midwives Step Up to Provide Prenatal Care After Two Rural Hospitals…
MUSCATINE, Iowa — Bailee Tordai, who was 33 weeks into her pregnancy, barely made it to the prenatal checkup. Her clunky…
As Big Pharma Loses Interest in New Antibiotics, Infections Are Only…
Forget covid-19, monkeypox, and other viruses for the moment and consider another threat troubling infectious disease…
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Life After ‘Roe’ Is … Confusing
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Rural Hospital Rescue Program Is Met With Skepticism From Administrators
Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News and Tony Leys
In West Texas, the tiny hospital in Crosbyton has only two beds, and…
‘American Diagnosis’: A Tribal Court in California Works to Heal Family…
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Kids Want to Put Montana on Trial for Unhealthy Climate Policies
For her birthday every October, Grace Gibson-Snyder and her family explore the Lamar Valley just inside the northern…
Three Things to Know About Insurance Coverage for Abortion
Will your health plan pay for an abortion now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade?
Even before the June…