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Trump’s Legacy Looms Large as Colorado Aims to Close the Hispanic Insurance Gap
Rae Ellen Bichell and Markian Hawryluk
Armando Peniche Rosales has a crooked toe that for years has predicted the weather, growing sensitive when rain or cold is coming.
“It never healed right,” said Peniche Rosales, who…
U.S. Senate moves forward on gun safety legislation
WASHINGTON — The Senate is poised to pass a bipartisan bill later this week that could become the most comprehensive federal gun safety legislation in years, including billions in new mental health funding.
Senators on a procedural vote…
Senate Deal Raises Hopes for a Reduction in Gun Suicides
A bipartisan U.S. Senate agreement negotiated after high-profile mass shootings in Texas, New York, and Oklahoma lacks gun access restrictions that advocates say are needed to prevent such attacks. But the deal’s focus on mental…
New Weight Loss Treatment Is Marked by Heavy Marketing and Modest Results
First came the “edible billboard,” which appeared last year during the holidays in New York’s East Village loaded with cake treats. Then, in late January, came the national marketing campaign, with TV and digital media promoting…
White House announces increased wages, support for firefighters
Firefighters have been working around the clock to battle one of the worst wildfire years ever in New Mexico with minimal pay that doesn’t always cover the bills. On Tuesday, the White House announced…
Más de 100 millones de estadounidenses viven acosados por las deudas médicas
Noam N. Levey
Elizabeth Woodruff tuvo que usar los ahorros de su jubilación y buscar tres trabajos luego que ella y su esposo fueran demandados por casi $10,000 por un hospital de Nueva York, en donde al hombre le amputaron una pierna…
Watch: She Almost Died. The $250K Debt Took Their House.
June 21, 2022
Cindy Powers needed 19 surgeries over the course of five years for abdominal problems and life-threatening infections. “I knew of at least three times where she died on the operating table…
Sobering Lessons in Untying the Knot of a Homeless Crisis
PORTLAND, Ore. — Michelle Farris never expected to become homeless, but here she was, sifting through garbage and towering piles of debris accumulated along a roadway on the outskirts of Northeast Portland. Farris, 51, has spent…
Medical Bills Can Shatter Lives. North Carolina May Act to ‘De-Weaponize’ That Debt.
Aneri Pattani
RALEIGH, N.C. — When Erin Williams-Reavis faced a $3,500 surgery bill, the hospital offered to let her pay in $300 monthly installments. It was too much, said Williams-Reavis, 44, who lives in Greensboro, about an hour west…
Medi-Cal Will Cover Doulas at More Than Twice California’s Initial Proposed Rate
California will cover doula services for low-income residents at more than twice the state’s initial proposed rate under a spending plan lawmakers passed last week.
Some advocates welcomed the new benefit in Medi-Cal, the…