They Were Injured at the Super Bowl Parade. A Month Later, They Feel Forgotten.
By Bram Sable-Smith and Peggy Lowe, KCUR
A Kansas family remembers Valentine’s Day as the beginning of panic attacks, life-altering trauma, and waking to nightmares of gunfire.
Exclusive: Social Security Chief Vows to Fix ‘Cruel-Hearted’ Overpayment Clawbacks
By Fred Clasen-Kelly
New Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley is promising to change how the agency reclaims billions of dollars it wrongly pays to beneficiaries, saying the existing process is “cruel-hearted and mindless.”
Daily Edition for Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Opponents Concede That Prop. 1 Likely Will Pass: The mental health bond measure hung on to its narrow lead Tuesday, prompting leaders of the opposition movement to concede likely defeat. “It is almost certain to pass,” said Californians Against Proposition 1. Read more from LA Daily News.
Concerns Grow Over Quality of Care as Investor Groups Buy Not-for-Profit Nursing Homes
By Harris Meyer
For-profit groups own more than 70% of U.S. nursing homes. Industry leaders and researchers wonder whether corporations and investors can succeed where not-for-profit organizations have struggled. Or, will quality of care suffer in the name of making money?
West Virginia City Once Battered by Opioid Overdoses Confronts ‘Fourth Wave’
By Taylor Sisk
Years of struggle prepared residents in Cabell County, West Virginia, to confront the latest wave of the opioid epidemic as mixtures of fentanyl and other drugs claim lives nationwide.
Secret Contract Aims to Upend Landmark California Prison Litigation
By Don Thompson
California has commissioned an exhaustive study of whether its prisons provide a constitutional level of mental health care, which it could use to try to end one of the lawsuits that have federal courts overseeing the state’s prisons. But corrections officials won’t disclose even basic details of the consultants’ contract, including its cost to taxpayers.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Proposition 1 update, measles, gun violence, long covid, homelessness, flu strains, opioid treatments, and more are in the news.
How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health
By Amy Maxmen
Framed in the rhetoric of choice, Tennessee’s new law governing childhood vaccinations is among more than a dozen recently passed or pending nationwide that set parental freedom against community and children’s health.
California Voters Are Skeptical That More Money Is the Answer to Homelessness
By Angela Hart
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature ballot measure to address mental illness, addiction, and homelessness with a $6.4 billion bond and other reforms is barely ahead in the ongoing ballot count. The slim margin reflects a growing unease among Californians over the governor’s homelessness initiatives.
Movimientos en contra de las vacunas perjudican a los niños más vulnerables
By Amy Maxmen
La desinformación, junto con un movimiento por el derecho de los padres que aleja la toma de decisiones de la salud pública, ha contribuido a las tasas de vacunación infantil más bajas en una década.
