Category: Health Care
Primary care doctors are a critical link to better health for seniors
Reaching retirement age can be a wonderful time in life — traveling to the places on your bucket list, spending…
Mom’s $4M bill for quadruplets’ care sparks conversation on high health care costs
A mom’s hospital bills for her quadruplets’ neonatal intensive care unit stay, totaling over $4 million, is sparking a conversation…
NI health: ‘My father’s care during Covid was negligent’
By Marie-Louise Connolly BBC News NI health correspondent A woman whose 84-year-old father died in hospital during the pandemic said…
State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs
WASHINGTON — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep…
Hennepin leaders want ballpark tax to fund health care improvements
Hennepin County leaders want state lawmakers to make the sales tax used to build Target Field permanent so most future…
Facing public backlash, some health care companies are abandoning hospital deals
ANNA CLAIRE VOLLERS Stateline.org Worried about hospitals closing and higher costs for patients, state lawmakers are increasingly tangling with hospitals…
Why foster kids aren’t getting the mental health care they need
Last fall, a 15-year-old foster child in Kansas took his own life. According to a local news report, the boy’s…
Weight loss drug Wegovy is now approved for heart health — but that won’t mean broad insurance coverage just yet
The blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy is now approved in the U.S. for heart health. But some health plans and…
Judge mulls third contempt case against Arizona for failing to improve prison health care
PHOENIX — A judge presiding over a nearly 12-year-old lawsuit challenging the quality of health care in Arizona’s prisons is…
Georgia Senate OKs bill to loosen limits on health care facilities, but talks ongoing
Sen. Bill Cowsert, an Athens Republican, urged lawmakers to vote for a healthcare proposal even though they may not like…
