Daily Edition for Friday, August 16, 2024
California Supreme Court Ruling Is A Loss For Hospital Workers: In a unanimous ruling, the court said thousands of hospital employees at Alameda Health System are not protected by state laws requiring daily meal and rest breaks for private employees. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Inside Conservative Activist Leonard Leo’s Long Campaign To Gut Planned Parenthood
By Rachana Pradhan
Illustration by Oona Zenda
Anti-abortion groups and their allies secured a generational victory in 2022 when the Supreme Court overturned “Roe v. Wade.” A lawsuit in Texas demonstrates how those same forces threaten access to other health services, including birth control and screenings for cancer and sexually transmitted infections.
Amid Medicaid ‘Unwinding,’ Many States Wind Up Expanding
By Phil Galewitz
The end of pandemic-era Medicaid coverage protections coincided with changes in more than a dozen states to expand coverage for lower-income people, including children, pregnant women, and the incarcerated.
En medio de las expulsiones de Medicaid, muchos estados deciden expandirlo
By Phil Galewitz
Esta ampliación de las afiliaciones en estos estados se producen en medio de la mayor conmoción en las casi seis décadas de historia del programa.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Happy 50th, ERISA
What does a law to protect worker pensions have to do with how health insurance is regulated? Far more than most people may think. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, turns 50 in September. The law fundamentally changed the way the federal and state governments regulate employer-provided health insurance and continues to shape health policy in the United States. In this special episode of “What the Health?”, host and KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner speaks to Larry Levitt of KFF, Paul Fronstin of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, and Ilyse Schuman of the American Benefits Council about the history of ERISA and what its future might hold.
Daily Edition for Thursday, August 15, 2024
Fatal Overdoses In San Francisco Fall For Second Straight Month: In a hopeful sign that San Francisco’s devastating overdose crisis may be turning a corner, the city saw the number of fatal overdoses fall for the second consecutive month — to 39 in July. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Most Black Hospitals Across the South Closed Long Ago. Their Impact Endures.
By Lauren Sausser
Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, was established to exclusively admit Black patients during a time when Jim Crow laws barred them from accessing the same health care facilities as white patients. Its closure underscores how hundreds of Black hospitals in the U.S. fell casualty to social progress.
New Lines of Attack Form Against the Affordable Care Act
By Julie Appleby
While fighting potential fraud in government programs has long been a conservative rallying cry, recent criticisms of the Affordable Care Act represent a renewed line of attack on the program when repealing it is unlikely.
The FDA Calls Them ‘Recalls,’ Yet the Targeted Medical Devices Often Remain in Use
By David Hilzenrath
With medical devices, recalls are not always what they seem. In some recalls, including some of the most serious, the FDA and the manufacturers let doctors and hospitals continue to use the devices.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Rady Children’s Nurses Reach Tentative Deal: As a second nurses strike is looming, the union representing nurses at Rady Children's Hospital has come to a tentative collective bargaining agreement with hospital officials. The nurses are expected to start voting Thursday morning. Read more from ABC 10 News.
