‘Still a Lot of Pain’: Four Years After Mass Shooting, Texas Community Grapples With Fallout
Santa Fe, Texas, was a mental health care desert until a 17-year-old gunman killed 10 people at the local high school in 2018. Now the city, which sits between Houston and Galveston, has a resiliency center, where anyone affected by the shooting can get free counseling. But even with an influx of mental health care, the community struggles with the aftermath.
Community Health Centers’ Big Profits Raise Questions About Federal Oversight
Nonprofit federally funded health centers are a linchpin in the nation’s health care safety net because they treat the medically underserved. The average profit margins is 5%, but some have recorded margins of 20% or more in three of the past four years.
For Medically Vulnerable Families, Inflation’s Squeeze Is Inescapable
Inflation hasn’t hit Americans like this in decades. And families living with chronic diseases have little choice but to pay more for the medicine, supplies, and food they need to stay healthy.
Abortion Is Just the Latest Dividing Line Between the Twin Cities of Bristol and Bristol
The community of Bristol straddles the border between two states with very different abortion laws. Tennessee prohibits most abortions at about six weeks and will soon ban them nearly outright. Virginia allows them at least through the second trimester. To maintain abortion access in the area, staff at a clinic on the Tennessee side of the state line are helping open a clinic about a mile down the road on the Virginia side.
Journalists Scrutinize Retail Giants' Push Into Health Care and Government's HIV Surveillance
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Watch: How Nursing Homes Put Friends and Families on the Hook for Residents’ Debts
Big Pharma Went All In to Kill Drug Pricing Negotiations
Inflation Reduction Act Contains Important Cost-Saving Changes for Many Patients — Maybe for You
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: A Big Week for Biden
EPA Action Boosts Grassroots Momentum to Reduce Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’
No, the Senate-Passed Reconciliation Bill Won’t Strip $300 Billion From Medicare
They Call It ‘Tranq’ — And It’s Making Street Drugs Even More Dangerous
California Gov. Newsom Pins Political Rise on Abortion, Guns, and Health Care
Diagnosis: Debt
100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt
The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.
