Dec 26 Watch 7:09 How planning for long-term care is burdening middle-class Americans By William Brangham, Karina Cuevas Long-term care is already a huge problem in the United States, one that's growing as the baby boom population ages, and one with big financial costs. William Brangham explores the impact this is having on middle-class Americans and how they… Continue watching
Dec 15 Decades after historic Black hospital closes, former nurses fight to keep the memory alive By Gabrielle Hays Historian Cicely Hunter said the mere number of Black health professionals who came out of the institution was significant — the hospital educated Missouri residents, but also Black residents from elsewhere in the U.S. Continue reading
Nov 14 Advocates say Biden administration could do more to prevent millions from losing Medicaid coverage By Amanda Seitz, Kenya Hunter, Associated Press Advocates interviewed around the country say problems with the government forms, websites and phone lines in states including Texas, Florida, North Carolina and Arkansas have led to millions of people losing Medicaid. Continue reading
Nov 08 Watch 5:24 Explaining the staggering rise of syphilis in newborn babies By Amna Nawaz, Shoshana Dubnow The last decade has brought an alarming rise in the number of babies born in the U.S. with syphilis. New CDC data showed more than 3,700 babies born with the disease in 2022, about 10 times the number born in… Continue watching
Oct 27 Vaccine data shows rates for latest COVID-19 booster is ‘abysmal’, only 7 percent of U.S. adults with shot By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press More than a month after federal officials recommended a new version of the COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot. One expert calls the numbers “abysmal.”… Continue reading
Oct 04 Health care workers kick off 3-day strike in multiple states By Stefanie Dazio, Damian Dovarganes, Associated Press Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers took to picket lines on Wednesday, launching a massive strike that the company warned could cause delays at its hospitals and clinics that serve nearly 13 million Americans. Continue reading
Sep 21 Medicaid coverage restored to about a half-million people after computer errors kicked them off By David A. Lieb, Associated Press All states are undertaking a massive review of Medicaid eligibility after they were prohibited from ending coverage for people during the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch 7:27 What’s behind an alarming rise in violent incidents in health care facilities By John Yang, Claire Mufson Health care workers are five times as likely to experience workplace violence as other workers, according to government data. In a National Nurses United survey in 2022, 40 percent of hospital nurses said they’d seen an increase in violent incidents. Continue watching
Sep 15 Texas schools and families struggle as hundreds of thousands of kids lose Medicaid coverage By Laura Santhanam Advocates say Medicaid’s unwinding has put affected families in a precarious situation, with research suggesting that many who have lost coverage were still eligible. But in Texas, where child disenrollment rates are among the nation's highest, state officials say they… Continue reading
Sep 03 Watch 8:15 Arkansas Medicaid recipients fight to stay covered after federal protections end By Ali Rogin, Kaisha Young Medicaid enrollments reached unprecedented levels when Congress temporarily blocked states from kicking people off of the health insurance plan during the pandemic. But that policy has ended, and now states have until 2024 to check people’s eligibility and remove those… Continue watching