This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. It might be hard to recall, but only a few years ago people were not wearing masks in high-risk settings. Even within hospitals, the majority of...
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a paper that sounded the alarm about the rising death rates among children and teenagers. Among 1- to 19-year-olds, deaths have increased due to car crashes, homicide, suicide, and...
Cigna health insurance has an efficient system to process claims quickly and easily: they just ask their medical reviewers to outright reject most claims. This streamlined system allows a doctor to review the claim and reject it without even opening the file. In...
The government-declared that the “pandemic health emergency” ends at the end of March, along with the mandated guarantee of Medicaid coverage for anyone enrolled. The eligibility requirements and regulations will return to individual state control. This means that...
With Roe v. Wade overturned, abortion is now banned or severely restricted in over 18 states, with more on the way. Now, right-wing efforts to ban abortion medication, are intensifying. Over half of all abortions in the U.S. use oral medication, rather than a medical...
