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Knoxville’s Black community endured deeply rooted racism. Now there is medical debt

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — When Dr. H.M. Green opened his new medical office building on East Vine Avenue in 1922, Black residents of this city on the Tennessee River could be seen only in the basement of Knoxville General Hospital. They were barred from the city’s other three medical centers.

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3 Stocks That'll Help You Prepare for a Potential Economic Downturn

The Fed officials seem all set to approve a massive rate hike in its upcoming meeting, paving the way for the policy rate to climb above 5% by March next year. The rapid tightening of monetary policy will likely trigger a recession. Thus, investing in resilient stocks Visa (V), Centene…

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Could polio and measles make a comeback in Ky.? School vaccination rates say kids are vulnerable

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3 Brilliant Stocks to Buy on the Dip

With underwhelming earnings and an imminent interest rate hike by the Fed weighing heavily on investor sentiment, the market seems to have relapsed into a fresh bout of volatility. However, this might be the right opportunity for bargain hunters to load up on fundamentally strong stocks Microsoft (MSFT), Centene (CNC),…

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Why Georgia’s midterm could set the stakes for 2024

ATLANTA — Georgia may be one of the nation’s most politically competitive states, but its midterm election doesn’t fit into the national narrative as a referendum of President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump.

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Commentary: Voting is good for you; it might even save your life

The midterm election is just days away. One of the most important issues on the ballot is health equity.

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In Knoxville, the burden of medical debt reinforces a long history of segregation

Black communities in the U.S. suffer disproportionately from health care debt. The reasons go back to segregation and a history of racist policies that have limited Black wealth.

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Pa. health care providers and lawmakers face off in state Supreme Court case to decide Medicaid coverage for abortion

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania's high court is weighing whether a state rule prohibiting low-income people from paying for abortions with state-funded health insurance violates their equal rights and discriminates against women.

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Why pediatricians are worried about the end of the federal COVID emergency

In the pandemic, the government allowed millions of children to stay on Medicaid — no need to have an adult re-enroll them every year. But that may end soon, and many kids could lose their coverage.

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Inside a bus, East Texans get the health care they can’t afford or find anywhere else

Access to health care is limited in rural Texas. The mobile clinic operated by Beaumont-based TAN Healthcare aims to close that gap.

The Texas Tribune

Michael Hiltzik: How Congress could rein in the rogue Supreme Court

If the Supreme Court's decisions in 2022 made your skin crawl, what with its eviscerating abortion rights, hobbling gun restrictions and undermining the government's ability to address global warming, strap yourself in: The 2022-23 session could be as bad, or worse.

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Administration eyes national hepatitis C treatment plan

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is preparing a comprehensive initiative to fight hepatitis C that would streamline testing and treatment and secure an agreement with drugmakers to bring down the cost of treatment of the disease, which has spiked during the pandemic.

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Administration eyes national hepatitis C treatment plan - Roll Call

Treatments for the hepatitis C have been around since 2013, but high costs and red have slowed efforts to stop the spread.

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Expanding Medicaid is popular. That's why it's a key issue in some statewide midterms

Next month, South Dakotans will decide whether to expand Medicaid to 42,500 state residents. Democratic candidates elsewhere are making it a part of their pitch to flip GOP-held governors' offices.

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Abrams offers lots of plans, but she’ll face uphill fight putting them into action

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A wholesale overhaul of how to confront systemic poverty in Georgia. A multipronged plan to combat the scourge of climate change. A set of policy changes to address the state’s growing affordable housing crisis.

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Why are half of Texas’ 5 million uninsured passing on affordable health coverage?

DALLAS — What’s more surprising: that a record 1.84 million Texans enrolled in Obamacare for 2022 or that over 2 million others passed on insurance despite being eligible for cost-cutting subsidies?

The Independent UK

Abortion ruling means more and riskier births in Mississippi

Mississippi expects 5,000 more births each year as a result of the Supreme Court ruling denying abortion rights

The Independent UK

Dems push Medicaid expansion for left-behind rural Georgia

Democrats want Georgia to join 38 other states in expanding the state-federal Medicaid health insurance program to cover all able-bodied adults

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Pritzker insider Nikki Budzinski cashing in as a consultant since leaving state government

In 10 months, she has made more than $500,000 from a lobbyist, Democratic groups that don’t disclose their contributors and political and labor groups. She’s now running for Congress.

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Health department medical detectives find 84% of U.S. maternal deaths are preventable

More than half of these deaths occur well after the mom leaves the hospital. To save lives, mothers need more support in the "fourth trimester, that time after the baby is born," one researcher says.

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Kids’ mental health care leaves parents in debt and in the shadows

Rachel and her husband adopted Marcus out of Guatemalan foster care as a 7-month-old infant and brought him home to Lansing, Michigan. With a round face framed by a full head of dark hair, Marcus was giggly and verbal — learning names of sea animals off flashcards, impressing other adults.

The Independent UK

Stacey Abrams slams ‘grotesque’ Brian Kemp for Covid failings during event with Oprah

Democrat says Medicaid expansion could give 500,000 people healthcare

The Independent UK

Nevada voters weigh state version of Equal Rights Amendment

Nevada voters are deciding whether to adopt an Equal Rights Amendment into their state constitution, which would add language guaranteeing equal rights to groups of people who have historically been discriminated against

Axios

Preterm birth drug saga reflects broader issues with FDA process

Congress may still try to reform the FDA's accelerated approval process this year.

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As hepatitis C proliferates, states lift barriers to treatment

While national efforts to eliminate hepatitis C have faced setbacks because of increased drug use, the impact of COVID-19 and insurance complications, there’s a bright spot: Some states are now making it easier for patients to treat the disease.

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