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Jacob Gooch Sr. is standing on crutches in a room in his home. The room is dark, but he stands in a beam of light coming in through a window.

Sobrevivientes del tiroteo en el desfile de los Chiefs esperan las donaciones prometidas mientras acumulan cuentas médicas

By Peggy Lowe, KCUR and Bram Sable-Smith June 21, 2024

Los costos médicos para los sobrevivientes del tiroteo son muy altos y no terminarán pronto. Según un estudio de la Escuela de Medicina de Harvard, el gasto médico promedio para alguien que recibió un disparo se eleva a casi $30,000 el primer año.

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Jacob Gooch Sr. is standing on crutches in a room in his home. The room is dark, but he stands in a beam of light coming in through a window.

Super Bowl Parade Shooting Survivors Await Promised Donations While Bills Pile Up

By Peggy Lowe, KCUR and Bram Sable-Smith June 21, 2024

Families of the people hurt during the Feb. 14 mass shooting are carrying what one expert calls “victimization debt.” In the third story of our series “The Injured,” we learn about the strain of paying small and large medical bills and other out-of-pocket costs.

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DiJuana Davis and her child Treasure Woodard sit on a couch in their home.

Medicaid for Millions in America Hinges on Deloitte-Run Systems Plagued by Errors

By Rachana Pradhan and Samantha Liss June 24, 2024

The technology has generated notices with errors, sent Medicaid paperwork to the wrong addresses, and been frozen for hours at a time, according to state audits, court documents, and interviews. While it can take months to fix problems, America’s poorest residents pay the price.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': On Capitol Hill, RFK Defends Firings at CDC

September 5, 2025

Just days after his firing of the brand-new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a defiant Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. secretary of health and human services, defended that action and others before a sometimes skeptical Senate Finance Committee. Criticism of Kennedy’s increasingly anti-vaccine actions came not just from Democrats on […]

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A digital illustration in watercolor and pencil shows a hand holding an ID card in the foreground of the scene. Instead of showing a picture of a person, the ID card shows a microscopic image of an embryo. The ID card reads, “Class: embryo; name: TBD; date of birth: unknown; sex: unknown; weight: unknown; height: unknown; eyes: unknown.” In the background, there is an empty chair where the person holding the ID card might have expected to see a person.

Can a Fetus Be an Employee? States Are Testing the Boundaries of Personhood After ‘Dobbs’

By Bram Sable-Smith May 5, 2023

Laws granting rights to unborn children have spread in the decades since the U.S. and Missouri supreme courts allowed Missouri’s definition of life as beginning at conception to stand. Now, a wrongful death lawsuit involving a workplace accident shows how sprawling those laws — often intended to curb abortion — have become.

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Three photos are shown in a collage. The left photo is a portrait of a woman standing indoors with a walker. The top right photo shows a woman in a hospital bed. The bottom right photo shows a man in a Kansas City Chiefs jersey carrying his daughter on his shoulders.

Tres personas heridas en el desfile del Super Bowl viven con balas que siguen alojadas en sus cuerpos

By Bram Sable-Smith and Peggy Lowe, KCUR May 8, 2024

A casi tres meses del tiroteo en el desfile del Super Bowl de los Kansas City Chiefs, que dejó al menos 24 personas heridas, recuperarse de esas heridas es algo profundamente personal e incluye una sorprendente área gris de la medicina: si las balas deberían o no extraerse.

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Three photos are shown in a collage. The left photo is a portrait of a woman standing indoors with a walker. The top right photo shows a woman in a hospital bed. The bottom right photo shows a man in a Kansas City Chiefs jersey carrying his daughter on his shoulders.

Three People Shot at Super Bowl Parade Grapple With Bullets Left in Their Bodies

By Bram Sable-Smith and Peggy Lowe, KCUR May 8, 2024

Despite the rise of gun violence in America, few medical guidelines exist on removing bullets from survivors’ bodies. In the second installment of our series “The Injured,” we meet three people shot at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade who are dealing with the bullets inside them in different ways.

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They Were Injured at the Super Bowl Parade. A Month Later, They Feel Forgotten.

By Bram Sable-Smith and Peggy Lowe, KCUR March 14, 2024

A Kansas family remembers Valentine’s Day as the beginning of panic attacks, life-altering trauma, and waking to nightmares of gunfire.

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An illustration drawn with pencil and colored digitally shows a row of hands dropping ballot envelopes into a large box in the center of the image. Inside of the ballot box is a senior male judge, who is ripping a paper in half that says, "YES."

Voters Backed Abortion Rights but State Judges Have Final Say

By Bram Sable-Smith and Katheryn Houghton Illustration by Oona Zenda January 14, 2025

Though abortion rights supporters prevailed on ballot measures in seven of the 10 states where abortion was up for a vote on Nov. 5, the state supreme courts voters have elected indicate legal fights to come aren’t clear-cut.

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Temp Nurses Cost Hospitals Big During Pandemic. Lawmakers Are Now Mulling Limits.

By Bram Sable-Smith March 17, 2023

Missouri is considering making it a felony to jack up temporary health care staffing prices during a statewide or national emergency. It’s one of at least 14 states looking to reel in travel nurse costs, after many hospitals struggled to pay for needed staffers earlier in the covid pandemic.

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