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Floridaās new immigration law requires hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status at admission and in emergency rooms, and report that information plus the cost of care for residents without legal status. Doctors and nurses who oppose the policy seem reluctant to criticize lawmakers for fear of political retribution.
As the number of refugees entering the U.S. grows, those arriving in Montana and other rural areas find limited dental care options.
The Supreme Court is considering the future of the abortion pill mifepristone, after GenBioPro sued the FDA over limitations that effectively block generic production of the drug, a major part of the market. Congress is considering proposals that would impose Medicaid work requirements, crack down on pharmacy benefit managers, and more. And President Joe Biden moved to expand health coverage to young immigrants known as āDreamers.ā Rachel Cohrs of Stat, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico join Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health Newsā Mary Agnes Carey to discuss these issues and more.
Nearly half a million Californians without legal residency make too much to qualify for Medicaid yet they canāt afford to buy coverage. A state lawmaker is proposing to open up the stateās health insurance exchange as a first step to providing them affordable insurance.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is winding down state assistance for health care services to migrants seeking asylum. Heās lobbying the Biden administration to increase aid along the stateās southern border.
Responding to covid has taken so much attention and energy that some public health workers believe it pushed tuberculosis off peopleās radar.
Local health departments combat disparities by funding immigrant and minority community groups and letting them decide how best to spend the money.
The industry has long relied on immigrants to bolster its ranks, and theyāll be critical to meeting future staffing needs, experts say. But as the baby boom generation fills beds, policymakers are slow to open new pathways for foreign workers.
Covid remains a threat for the roughly 30,000 people in the countryās network of immigration facilities. But ICE continues to flout its own pandemic protocols, an extension of the facilitiesā poor history of medical care.
Refugees are arriving in the U.S. in greater numbers after a 40-year low, prompting some health professionals to rethink ways to provide culturally competent care amid a shortage of mental health services.
Los Angeles taps Marta Segura, director of the cityās climate emergency mobilization office, as its first heat officer. Segura, the first Hispanic person to hold such a position in the country, will work across city departments on an early warning system while developing cooling strategies.
Hispanic residents have long been among the least likely to have health insurance ā in Colorado and across the country ā in part because of unauthorized immigrants. The state is expanding coverage to some of them, although the change runs up against lingering fears about the use of public benefits.
Julia Espinosa is a U.S. citizen who needs high-tech care and three transplants. But if the federal government wonāt let her father work here, she could lose her insurance.
Thousands of ICE detainees nationwide have tested positive for covid; 11 have died. Medical providers in California are volunteering to educate immigrants awaiting trial or deportation about covid treatment and vaccination.
Stressed vaccine communicators battle anti-vaccine propaganda while seeking to persuade Latino farmworkers to get covid boosters.
Some doctors, sick of mainstream health careās red tape, are finding refuge in practices that combine concierge medicine with charity care.
A class action lawsuit seeks better care for immigrants with physical disabilities or mental illness who were detained after trying to enter the country. Other disabled immigrants without legal status are also finding it difficult to get care.
Those seeking to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom in Tuesdayās recall election disagree with him on more than mask and vaccine mandates. The conservative candidates tend to favor free-market solutions over Newsomās expansion of publicly funded health coverage.
Medical-legal partnerships in Montana, Colorado and elsewhere across the nation operate on the notion that fixing patientsā legal ills is a vital part of their health care.
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