In Connecticut, Doctors and Dentists Are More Likely Than Hospitals To Sue Patients
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Readers Chime In on Reproductive Rights, Therapy Chatbots, Medical Debt, and More
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
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A 鈥楤arbaric鈥 Problem in American Hospitals Is Only Getting Bigger
Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward.
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Watch: Acknowledging Health Care鈥檚 Great Divide
As part of her “How Would You Fix It?” series, podcast host Julie Rovner chats with health policy expert David Blumenthal about how politics can gum up health policy progress.
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Food Stamp Work Rules Don鈥檛 Increase Employment, Researchers Say
Work requirements will encourage people who are able to work to seek and maintain jobs, proponents say. But researchers haven鈥檛 found that they lower the unemployment rate.
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Medigap Premiums Leap, and Consumers Have Few Alternatives
Millions of people rely on the supplemental insurance to offset the deductibles, copayments, and other costs faced by enrollees in the traditional Medicare program.
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California Lawmakers Seek Protections for Patients in ICE Custody
Moving through the California Senate are two bills, informed by 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News reporting, that would strengthen protections for patients brought to health facilities by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Montana Moves Ahead With Doula Pay but Warns Medicaid Cuts Still May Come
Montana health officials say they鈥檙e seeking to add doula services to the state鈥檚 Medicaid program, reversing a previous statement that they would 鈥渘ot be moving forward鈥 amid a budget shortfall.
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They鈥檙e in Remission, but Their Medical Bills Aren鈥檛: Cancer Survivors Navigate Soaring Costs
The costs of posttreatment care are forcing cancer survivors to make tough choices. GOP proposals to bring down health insurance costs won鈥檛 help people who need constant care and monitoring, health policy researchers and patient advocates say.
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The “杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News Minute鈥 brings original health care and health policy reporting from our newsroom to the airwaves each week.
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Real Estate Investors Profit From Long-Term Care While Residents Languish
Real estate investment trusts are landlords for thousands of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals. Some select the managers and keep close watch over their performance but deny responsibility for bad care.
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Listen: Cheap Health Insurance Isn鈥檛 Always Cheap
Across the country, people are choosing lower monthly premiums in exchange for higher out-of-pocket risk. Reporter Jackie Forti茅r explains what the shift means for Americans鈥 health and wallets.
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Democrats Demand Trump Administration Halt Plan To Collect Federal Workers鈥 Health Data
After 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News reported that the Trump administration is seeking federal workers鈥 medical records, Democratic lawmakers are insisting that the Office of Personnel Management drop its request.
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The Accidental Architect of America鈥檚 Drug Patent Problem
An Arm and a Leg launches its 鈥101鈥 series with the story of Alfred Engelberg, a lawyer who鈥檚 been crusading to improve access to generic drugs by fixing loopholes in a law he helped draft more than 40 years ago.
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In Connecticut, Doctors Now Sue Patients Most Over Medical Bills, Surpassing Hospitals
Physicians, dentists, and other nonhospital providers account for more than 80% of health care debt collection cases in Connecticut courts, a CT Mirror-杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News investigation finds.
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Journalists Talk Hot Health Topics: Urgent Care Clinics Performing Abortions and Doulas’ Pay
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
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A New CDC Nominee, Again
President Donald Trump this week nominated a former deputy surgeon general who has expressed support for vaccines to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Considered a more traditional fit for the job, Erica Schwartz would be the agency鈥檚 fourth leader in roughly a year, should she be confirmed by the Senate. And Health […]
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States Update Guardianship Laws To Keep Children of Immigrants Out of Foster Care
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Listen: With Little Federal Regulation, States Are Left To Shape the Rules on AI in Health Care
As artificial intelligence embeds itself into health care, some physicians and patient advocates worry it could be used by insurance companies to refuse payment for care. Maryland passed one law banning AI from acting alone on a denial. Meanwhile, Virginia鈥檚 then-governor vetoed that state鈥檚 attempt at regulating AI in health insurance.
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Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human
With high demand for mental health care, a wave of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are being marketed as therapy apps 鈥 with little evidence they work and few regulations.
