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Mashup Score: 07 of 10 States Backed Abortion Rights, but Don’t Expect Change Overnight - KFF Health News - 6 hour(s) ago
Voters backed abortion rights in seven of the 10 states where the issue appeared on ballots Tuesday, including in Missouri, among the first states to ban abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections with its 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. At first glance, the nation’s patchwork of abortion […]
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Mashup Score: 4Post-Helene, Patients Who Rely on IV Nutrition Face Severe Shortages - KFF Health News - 9 day(s) ago
Hurricane Helene, which struck North Carolina last month, wrecked a Baxter International factory that produced 60 percent of the country’s IV fluids, according to the American Hospital Association. The company is rationing its products, and some hospitals have delayed or canceled surgeries that require large amounts of IV hydration. Among the worst-hit patients are those […]
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Hurricane Helene wrecked a factory that produced 60 percent of the country’s IV fluids. The company is rationing its products. Among the worst-hit patients are those who rely on IV nutrition. @ArthurAllen202 has more in today's #HealthBrief. ⤵️ https://t.co/oOkKJiOv3t
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Mashup Score: 1Long-Term Care Facilities Must Provide Addiction Care, Advocates Say - KFF Health News - 14 day(s) ago
When you think about the opioid crisis, the image of adults in their 20s, 30s, even sometimes those who are middle-aged, may come to mind. Rightly so, since most overdose deaths occur in people between ages 25 and 64. But did you know older adults are increasingly at risk of overdosing from opioids, too? In fact, from 2021 […]
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Did you know older adults are increasingly at risk of overdosing from opioids? Yet their addiction care needs are often overlooked, even in places teeming with medical staff that primarily serve older patients. @HMLLarweh has more in today's #HealthBrief: https://t.co/3cTEyAwZn8
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Mashup Score: 13As Hospitals Get Bigger, Medical Debt Is Harder for Patients To Shake - KFF Health News - 21 day(s) ago
If you get sick in America, there’s a good chance you’ll end up in debt. Four in 10 U.S. adults have some form of health-care debt, KFF has found. One surprising risk: living in a community where hospitals have consolidated — an increasingly common development as health systems merge or large systems gobble up smaller hospitals. That’s […]
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If you get sick in America, there’s a good chance you’ll end up in debt. One surprising risk: living in a community where hospitals have consolidated. @NoamLevey has more in today's #HealthBrief.⤵️ https://t.co/BJnwDRhhMG
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Mashup Score: 2Cash Shortages and Complex Rules Impede Native American Health-Care Access - KFF Health News - 28 day(s) ago
Each year, the Indian Health Service rejects tens of thousands of requests to fund outside care that it doesn’t provide, forcing patients to go without treatment or pay big medical bills themselves. The IHS is supposed to provide free care to Native Americans, but it does so only at scattered clinics and hospitals the agency funds and then manages […]
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The IHS is supposed to provide free care to Native Americans, but cash shortages and complex rules impede access to care. @Ajzionts has more in today's #HealthBrief. ⤵️ https://t.co/JmL9cqf4tq
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Mashup Score: 1
Californians in November will weigh in on a ballot initiative to increase scrutiny over the use of health-care dollars — particularly money from a federal drug discount program — meant to support patient care largely for low-income or indigent people. The revenue is sometimes used to address housing instability and homelessness among vulnerable patient populations. Voters […]
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Californians in November will weigh in on a ballot initiative to increase scrutiny over the use of health-care dollars meant to support patient care largely for low-income or indigent people. @ahartreports has more in today's #HealthBrief. ⤵️ https://t.co/Gp9YtfFDjb
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Mashup Score: 13
It was expected that the past year and a half would be a fraught time for Medicaid, the workhorse of the nation’s health system, which covers more people than any other government health insurance program. In April 2023, states resumed screening people for Medicaid eligibility and terminating coverage for those they said no longer qualified […]
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While more than 25 million Americans have lost Medicaid coverage during the Medicaid “unwinding,” many also gained coverage as more than a dozen states expanded health coverage. @philgalewitz has more in today's #HealthBrief. https://t.co/SbfJuJ7NpW
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Mashup Score: 2States’ Efforts To Alter Arcane Hospital Rules Mix Politics With Drama - KFF Health News - 1 month(s) ago
Georgia is one of dozens of states that require health-care facilities to ask for permission to build or expand by obtaining “certificates of need.” Basically, state regulators get to decide whether a town needs a new hospital or long-term care center. If the need is deemed real, they’re granted a “CON.” The intent of the […]
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#HealthBrief: States’ Efforts To Alter Arcane Hospital Rules Mix Politics With Drama https://t.co/aZfsdm393R
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Mashup Score: 2
Every year more than 10,000 taxpayer-supported public housing units are lost to disrepair. But federal lawmakers routinely ignore the full amount, around $115 billion, needed to keep the units in “decent, safe and sanitary” condition. One-time funds for public housing repairs were cut from the final version of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to appeal […]
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Every year more than 10,000 taxpayer-supported public housing units are lost to disrepair. But federal lawmakers routinely ignore the full amount needed to keep the units in “decent, safe and sanitary” condition. Today's #HealthBrief has more. ⤵️ https://t.co/37YVRBSyga
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Mashup Score: 0Abortion Clinics — And Patients — Are on the Move as State Laws Shift - KFF Health News - 2 month(s) ago
Last month, Planned Parenthood Great Plains opened its newest clinic in Pittsburg, Kan., a city of about 21,000 people mere minutes from the borders of both Missouri and Oklahoma. It’s the second new clinic the regional affiliate has opened in Kansas in a little over two years, to accommodate the growing number of patients coming […]
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Abortion clinics — and patients — are on the move as state laws shift. @besables has more in today's #HealthBrief: https://t.co/vmFAHdxC3Z
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Voters backed abortion rights in seven of the 10 states where the issue appeared on ballots Tuesday. But actual access to abortion in the country remains largely unchanged. @besables has more in today's #HealthBrief. ⤵️ https://t.co/LINFnR99kH