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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 17:20
People who served in the Canal Zone were left out of a law that made it easier to get care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Added: Apr 08, 2024
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 3
The Marine Corps says the private companies that make military uniforms fell behind because of inflation and COVID-related labor shortages.
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 4
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 27:55
A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 19:17
With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 15:44
A lack of barracks space - as well as poor living conditions in some barracks buildings - are contributing to complaints about sailors' quality of ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 6
Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way h...
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 18:49
Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 23:50
A Pentagon report finds that troops' suicides are often preceded by legal or administrative troubles
From: American Homefront Project
About a quarter of all suicide deaths occur among troops caught up in legal or administrative battles - sometimes for minor infractions.
Bought by North Country Public Radio, KTEP, Texas Public Radio, KPBS, KUT and more
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 7
After a string of high-profile deaths and disappearances, the Army is trying harder to find soldiers who fail to report for duty.
Bought by KTEP, KRPS, North Country Public Radio, KMXT, KUT and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2023
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 8
Fentanyl-related deaths among teens more than tripled across the U.S. from 2019 to 2021. And the CDC reports that two thirds of teens who died had ...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Dec 01, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 22:59
Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shie...
- Added: Nov 15, 2023
- Length: 29:50
As overdose fatalities reach two to three deaths a day in San Francisco, demands for supervised consumption sites are getting more urgent. But city...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 16:55
A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 16:39
Some San Francisco city officials are advocating jail for unhoused people who use drugs and murder charges for people who sell drugs. Critics say t...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
San Francisco city officials have decided that arresting unhoused people for using drugs is the way to get them into treatment programs. Critics sa...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
While San Francisco is on track to break records for the highest number of fatal overdoses in one year, health experts say the city is failing when...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
San Francisco is experiencing its worst rate of drug-related fatalities ever, and as city officials impose increasingly punitive measures against p...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
The deaths among Washington crewmembers occurred during a six-year period when the carrier remained in the shipyard for maintenance.
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 03:50
- Purchases: 6
Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Sep 22, 2023
- Length: 24:12
- Purchases: 1
The family of a woman murdered by a former Marine is taking the government to court. They say the killer - who was forced out of the military for m...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WHRV, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KTEP and more
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 03:49
- Purchases: 6
This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...
- Added: Sep 08, 2023
- Length: 17:02
