Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Medicaid

Medicaid weighs attaching strings to nursing home payments to improve patient care

The Biden administration is considering a requirement that the nation’s 15,500 nursing homes spend most of their payments from Medicaid on direct care for residents and limit the amount that is used for operations, maintenance, and capital improvements or diverted to profits.

Tribune News Service

Voters reject GOP's anti-Medicaid effort

The amendment would have required support from 60% voters, instead of a simple majority, to expand to program

Salon

US abortion rate rises, reversing three decades of declines

WASHINGTON — Ahead of a historic Supreme Court decision on the fate of Roe v. Wade, the nation recorded its first significant increase in the abortion rate in more than three decades, according to new statistics.

Los Angeles Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

US abortions rise: 1 in 5 pregnancies terminated in 2020

The number and rate of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2020 after a long decline

The Independent UK

Initiative to expand Medicaid to appear on South Dakota ballot

On June 9, 2022, South Dakota Secretary of State Steve Barnett (R) announced that an initiated state statute to expand Medicaid will appear on the ballot for November 8. The initiative will appear on the ballot as Initiated Measure 28.

Ballotpedia

About Where the Market is Headed? Consider These 5 Recession Resistant Stocks

The U.S. equity market has experienced elevated volatility lately amid record-high inflation, increased possibility of the Fed’s drastic interest rate increases to bring price stability, and growing recession fears. As the U.S. economy is slowly sliding into a recession, fundamentally strong consumer discretionary stocks UnitedHealth (UNH), Assurant (AIZ), Pilgrim’s Pride…

StockNews.com

3 Defensive Stocks to Outperform in this Bear Market

While the stock market has entered a bear phase following the release of multi-decade high inflation data, the health insurance industry could survive the downturn because of the near-inelastic demand for health coverage. Therefore, investors looking to dodge a market downturn could bet on fundamentally sound health insurance stocks Anthem…

StockNews.com

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Democrat Joe Cunningham to face Republican Henry McMaster in S.C. race for governor

Former Congressman Joe Cunningham, a Democrat who once flipped a congressional seat in deep-red South Carolina, will face Republican Gov. Henry McMaster in the race for governor in November.

WEKU

What if hospice services weren’t just for the dying?

Gloria Foster wasn’t ready for hospice, even though, with a prognosis of less than six months to live, she qualified for it. She was debilitated by diabetes and congestive heart failure, and was living with both a pacemaker and a device to help pump blood from her heart to the…

Tribune News Service

Abrams vows to raise minimum teacher pay to $50K if elected governor

Democrat Stacey Abrams proposed raising the minimum salary for Georgia public school teachers to $50,000 a year if she's elected governor, part of a four-year plan that would hike the pay of K-12 educators by $11,000.

Tribune News Service

Amid abortion debate, clinic asks: Who's caring for moms?

The founder of a midwifery clinic in Mississippi's capital is trying to open the state's first birth center

The Independent UK

Feds withhold $1.2M as Florida refuses to enforce COVID vaccine rule for health care workers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.— As Gov. Ron DeSantis fights COVID-19 vaccination passports and mandates — most recently by threatening the Special Olympics with a $27.5 million fine — there’s one mandate he can’t stop.

Tribune News Service

Democrats seek national plan for protecting abortion

WASHINGTON — Democrats and abortion rights advocates are seeking clarity on federal restrictions and challenges ahead of the Supreme Court releasing a decision expected to reverse the 50-year-old precedent set by Roe v. Wade.

Tribune News Service

Mortality gap between red, blue counties

Curiously, the "mortality gap" between red and blue counties was evident long before the pandemic began

Salon

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Roll Call

Democrats seek national plan for protecting abortion - Roll Call

With a Supreme Court decision on abortion looming, Democrats urge President Joe Biden to make moves to protect some types of abortion access.

Chicago Sun-Times

Children’s vision problems often go undetected despite calls for regular screening

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 600,000 children and teens are blind or have a vision disorder.

Los Angeles Times

Social Security trustees say the U.S. is rich enough to expand, not shrink, benefits

The army of perennial doomsayers about the financial condition of Social Security had to be a little crestfallen after the release of the program trustees' annual report last week.

Ballotpedia

Amendment C defeated in South Dakota

Amendment C was defeated by South Dakota voters on June 7, 2022.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

WEKU

Trump has friends — and foes — in South Dakota Republicans running for reelection

In South Dakota, former President Trump has endorsed GOP Gov. Kristi Noem. As for Republican Sen. John Thune, Trump said his political career was "over" after Thune dismissed election fraud claims.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Florida's DeSantis launches new attack on his state's transgender citizens

Never one to miss a chance to claim the crown as America's reigning culture warrior, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has unveiled yet another in his long line of antitransgender policies. This time he's proposing to deprive his transgender citizens — minors and adults alike — of fundamental medical care.

Tribune News Service

500,000 Floridians could lose health coverage without tax credits, study warns

More than 500,000 Floridians could lose their health insurance if Congress fails to extend tax credits passed through the American Rescue Plan Act, a new report warns.

The Independent UK

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis moves to ban transgender youth and Medicaid recipients from all transition care

LGBT+ advocates condemn Florida’s latest measures as politically motivated, ‘deeply biased and anti-science’

Ballotpedia

Amendment C on the June 7 ballot for South Dakota voters

In South Dakota, one statewide ballot measure will appear on the June 7 primary ballot. Amendment C would change the vote requirement for future ballot measures, and may impact measures appearing on the ballot this November. Amendment C is the only statewide ballot measure that will appear on the June…

WEKU

Medical respite offers refuge for homeless people recovering from illness

A growing number of private insurance companies are starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people. Here's what's driving the trend.

Miami Herald

Florida will extend Medicaid coverage for new mothers to a full year following childbirth

MIAMI — For a decade, Florida lawmakers have refused to expand eligibility for the public health insurance program, Medicaid, to all low-income adults as prescribed under the Affordable Care Act.

1 … 86 87 88 89

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Human Rights Campaign

63 stories

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.