Medicaid 鈥楿nwinding鈥 Decried as Biased Against Disabled People
People with disabilities say they are abruptly losing their Medicaid home health benefits and are being advised incorrectly when they call state offices for more information. 鈥淓very day the anxiety builds,鈥 one beneficiary told 蘑菇影院 Health News.
First Responders, Veterans Hail Benefits of Psychedelic Drugs as California Debates Legalization
California lawmakers have modified a psychedelic drug bill that was vetoed last year, narrowing it to allow only supervised use of psilocybin mushrooms, ecstasy, and other hallucinogens rather than decriminalize more broadly. The current bill would establish new state agencies to regulate the program.
Medical Residents Are Increasingly Avoiding States With Abortion Restrictions
A new analysis shows that students graduating from U.S. medical schools were less likely to apply this year for residency positions in states with abortion bans and other significant abortion restrictions.
Desaparecen protecciones pand茅micas, pero permanece la licencia por enfermedad paga
Estados Unidos es uno de los nueve pa铆ses que no garantizan licencia por enfermedad paga, seg煤n datos compilados por el World Policy Analysis Center.
Paid Sick Leave Sticks After Many Pandemic Protections Vanish
The U.S. is one of nine countries that do not guarantee paid sick leave. Since the covid pandemic, advocates in states including Missouri, Alaska, and Nebraska are organizing to take the issue to voters with ballot initiatives this November.
Este delgado dispositivo, que funciona con bater铆as, se llama BioButton y registra los signos vitales de los pacientes, incluidas la temperatura, y las frecuencias card铆aca y respiratoria.
Forget Ringing the Button for the Nurse. Patients Now Stay Connected by Wearing One.
Dozens of hospitals have deployed a device that uses artificial intelligence to monitor patients remotely. One hospital says it reduces nurses鈥 workloads 鈥 but some nurses fear the technology could replace them.
Biden Team鈥檚 Tightrope: Reining In Rogue Obamacare Agents Without Slowing Enrollment
Federal regulators face a growing challenge 鈥 how to prevent rogue health insurance agents from switching unknowing consumers鈥 Obamacare coverage without making the enrollment process so cumbersome that enrollment declines.
Las pruebas han detectado el virus en el ganado en nueve estados, principalmente en Texas y Nuevo M茅xico, y m谩s recientemente en Colorado. Una persona ha dado positivo para el H5N1.
Bird Flu Is Bad for Poultry and Dairy Cows. It鈥檚 Not a Dire Threat for Most of Us 鈥 Yet.
Cattle across the country are infected by the H5N1 bird flu. The virus isn鈥檛 spreading among people 鈥 but if it evolves to do that, fears of another pandemic could be realized.
En Colorado, reeval煤an leyes formuladas para proteger a los menores
Hay esfuerzos en Colorado y otros estados para revertir las leyes que obligan a informar sobre sospechas de abuso o negligencia, argumentando que el resultado ha sido demasiados informes infundados, que perjudican desproporcionadamente a las familias que son pobres, negras, ind铆genas o tienen miembros con discapacidades.
Mandatory Reporting Laws Meant To Protect Children Get Another Look
The state is looking at ways to weed out false reporting of child abuse and neglect as the number of reports reaches a record high.
Doctors Take On Dental Duties to Reach Low-Income and Uninsured Patients
More doctors are integrating oral health care into their practices, filling a need in America鈥檚 dental deserts.
M茅dicos de atenci贸n primaria asumen tareas de dentista para ayudar a pacientes vulnerables
En Denver, la inestabilidad de la vivienda, las barreras del idioma, la falta de transporte y el “costo astron贸mico” de la odontolog铆a sin seguro hacen que la atenci贸n dental sea inaccesible para muchos nuevos inmigrantes.
Medical Debt Affects Much of America, but Colorado Immigrants Are Hit Especially Hard
Colorado is ahead of the curve on policies to prevent medical debt, but the gap between the debt load in places inhabited primarily by people of color versus non-Hispanic white residents is greater than the national average.
La deuda m茅dica afecta a gran parte de EE.UU., pero en especial a inmigrantes en Colorado 聽
Las luchas del 谩rea reflejan una paradoja sobre Colorado. En general, la carga de deuda m茅dica del estado es m谩s baja que la de la mayor铆a. Pero las disparidades raciales y 茅tnicas son m谩s amplias.
ACA Plans Are Being Switched Without Enrollees鈥 OK
Insurance agents say it鈥檚 too easy to access consumer information on the Affordable Care Act federal marketplace. Policyholders can lose their doctors and access to prescriptions. Some end up owing back taxes.
California Is Expanding Insurance Access for Teenagers Seeking Therapy on Their Own
A California law that takes effect this summer will grant minors on public insurance the ability to get mental health treatment without their parents鈥 consent, a privilege that their peers with private insurance have had for years. But the law has become a flashpoint in the state鈥檚 culture wars.
Adolescentes podr铆an ir al psic贸logo sin tener el permiso de sus padres
Seg煤n la nueva ley en California, los j贸venes podr谩n hablar con un terapeuta sobre la identidad de g茅nero sin el consentimiento de sus padres. Pero no podr谩n recibir tratamiento residencial, medicaci贸n o cirug铆a de afirmaci贸n de g茅nero sin el visto bueno de sus padres, como han sugerido algunos opositores.
This State Isn鈥檛 Waiting for Biden To Negotiate Drug Prices
As the federal government negotiates with drugmakers to lower the price of 10 expensive drugs for Medicare patients, impatient legislators in some states are trying to go even further. Leading the pack is Colorado, where a new Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board is set to recommend an 鈥渦pper payment limit鈥 for drugs it deems unaffordable. In late […]
