Colorado Charts Its Own Course on Vaccines Amid Federal Pullback
In response to abrupt and politicized changes to federal vaccine policy, concerned Coloradans have taken several steps to shore up support for vaccine science. A...
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Listen: A Federal Agency Is After Workers’ Health Data, and Critics Are Alarmed
Privacy between doctors and patients is protected by law. But the Trump administration is, in effect, trying to peek into the exam room. The Office...
States Eye Aid To Prop Up Distressed Hospitals Amid Federal Medicaid Cuts
LOS ANGELES — At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care, and overflow...
Big Companies Position Themselves for Payday From $50B Federal Rural Health Fund
Tory Starr is worried about the people who get medical care at Open Door Community Health Centers along California’s North Coast. “They’re the folks that...
Democrats Demand Trump Administration Halt Plan To Collect Federal Workers’ Health Data
Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the Trump administration halt plans to collect sensitive medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as...
Listen: With Little Federal Regulation, States Are Left To Shape the Rules on AI in Health Care
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New Federal Medicaid Rules Require One Month of Work. Some States Demand More.
Millions of people who apply for Medicaid in the coming years will have to prove they’ve been working, going to school, or volunteering for at...
Trump’s Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers’ Medical Records
The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, and their families. A brief notice from...
Give and Take: Federal Rural Health Funding Could Trigger Service Cuts
BIG SANDY, Mont. — The emergency department at Big Sandy Medical Center is one room with a single curtain between two beds. It’s one of...
Reckoning With State and Federal Cuts, Los Angeles Safety-Net Clinics Push for a New Tax
LOS ANGELES — Mia Angulo, who is pregnant and due in May, is living in a tent with her boyfriend in the predominantly Latino neighborhood...