Senator Urges Biden Administration To Thwart Fraudulent Obamacare Enrollments ( kffhealthnews.org )
Clean Needles Save Lives. In Some States, They Might Not Be Legal. ( kffhealthnews.org )
Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions ( kffhealthnews.org )
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Paid sick leave sticks after many pandemic protections vanish ( kffhealthnews.org )
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Biden Administration sets higher staffing mandates. Most nursing homes don’t meet them ( kffhealthnews.org )
The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so....
As bans spread, fluoride in drinking water divides communities across the US ( kffhealthnews.org )
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Organ Transplant Surgeon In Texas Accused Of Manipulating Database ( kffhealthnews.org )
After Appalachian hospitals merged into a monopoly, their ERs slowed to a crawl ( kffhealthnews.org )
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As More States Target Disavowed ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis, Police Groups Push Back ( kffhealthnews.org )
Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in several states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law enforcement training, police incident reports, and civil court testimony....
A New Orleans Neighborhood Confronts the Racist Legacy of a Toxic Stretch of Highway - KFF Health News ( kffhealthnews.org )
Aside from a few discarded hypodermic needles on the ground, the Hunter’s Field Playground in New Orleans looks almost untouched. It’s been open more than nine years, but the brightly painted red and yellow slides and monkey bars are still sleek and shiny, and the padded rubber tiles feel springy underfoot....
Bathroom Bills Are Back — Broader and Stricter — In Several States ( kffhealthnews.org )
Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match their sex assigned at birth....
Florida Defies CDC in Measles Outbreak, Telling Parents It's Fine to Send Unvaccinated Kids to School ( kffhealthnews.org )
Lawsuits claim South Carolina kids underwent unnecessary genital exams during abuse investigations ( kffhealthnews.org )
Three ongoing federal lawsuits filed in South Carolina accuse the state of forcing boys and girls to undergo traumatic genital exams during child abuse investigations, even when no allegations of sexual abuse have been raised....
Death and Redemption in an American Prison ( kffhealthnews.org )
Steven Garner doesn’t like to talk about the day that changed his life. A New Orleans barroom altercation in 1990 escalated to the point where Garner, then 18, and his younger brother Glenn shot and killed another man. The Garners claimed self-defense, but a jury found them guilty of second-degree murder. They were sentenced...
GoFundMe Has Become a Health Care Utility ( kffhealthnews.org )
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Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’ ( kffhealthnews.org )
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans....
'I’m not safe here': Schools ignore federal rules on restraint and seclusion ( kffhealthnews.org )
Photos show blood splattered across a small bare-walled room in a North Carolina school where a second grader repeatedly punched himself in the face in the fall of 2019, according to the child’s mom....
Trump official who OK'd drugs from Canada chairs company behind Florida's import plan ( kffhealthnews.org )
The Food and Drug Administration’s unprecedented approval of Florida’s plan to import drugs from Canada was made possible only after Alex Azar, as the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, certified that bringing medicines over the border could be done safely....
Child Care Gaps in Rural America Threaten to Undercut Small Communities ( kffhealthnews.org )
Candy Murnion remembers vividly the event that pushed her to open her first day care business in Jordan, a town of fewer than 400 residents in a sea of grassland in eastern Montana....
States expand health coverage for immigrants as GOP hits Biden over border crossings ( kffhealthnews.org )
A growing number of states are opening taxpayer-funded health insurance programs to immigrants, including those living in the U.S. without authorization, even as Republicans assail President Joe Biden over a dramatic increase in illegal crossings of the southern border....
Medicare Advantage Popular with Seniors – But Not Hospitals and Doctors ( kffhealthnews.org )
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
More Cities Address ‘Shade Deserts’ as Extreme Heat Triggers Health Issues ( kffhealthnews.org )
Neighborhoods with more trees and green space stay cooler, while those coated with layers of asphalt swelter. Lower-income neighborhoods tend to be hottest, a city report found, and they have the least tree canopy....
Why Even Public Health Experts Have Limited Insight Into Stopping Gun Violence in America ( kffhealthnews.org )
Gun violence has exploded across the U.S. in recent years — from mass shootings at concerts and supermarkets to school fights settled with a bullet after the last bell....
