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Some clinicians stress mental health care for kids questioning their gender

May 18, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Placeholder while article actions load Good morning, and happy Monday. I’m McKenzie Beard, your Health 202 researcher, filling in today for Rachel Roubein. Let’s dive in. On today’s edition: Some conservatives leaders are pushing to end abortion exceptions, and the federal government is trying to recoup $163 billion in unemployment pandemic fraud. But first… These…

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Americans can expect to pay a lot more for medical care in retirement

May 17, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Lisafx | Istock | Getty Images “There’s a lot of upward cost pressure in the health-care system right now, due to investments that providers need to make to get ready for the next pandemic, due to issues around labor, particularly hospital nurses,” said Hope Manion, senior vice president and chief health and welfare actuary at…

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District 225 proposal would take basic health care in-house

May 15, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Coming soon: a health center at Glenbrook South. The Glenbrook High Schools District 225 board on Monday heard Associate Superintendent R.J. Gravel outline a proposal for a health center in the school, to be staffed by an outside agency such as NorthShore University Health System, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital or Loyola University Medical Center. It…

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Health care workers need rescuing. It’s time for a Dunkirk moment

May 13, 2022 Sharika Soukup

In the late spring of 1940, thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of northern France were spent, demoralized, and facing near-certain defeat at the hands of Nazi forces. The British government undertook one of the boldest rescue operations in military history. Using military ships, merchant navy vessels, and, famously, a flotilla of civilian watercraft,…

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Health care giants improperly denied Medicare benefits

May 11, 2022 Sharika Soukup

The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement. The health care companies offering Medicare Advantage plans improperly denied services and payments at what might seem an alarming rate during a one-week test period in 2019, according to a government report released last week. The…

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center health care workers begin a 5-day strike; accuse hospital of unfair labor practices

May 10, 2022 Sharika Soukup

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Citing “unfair labor practices as well as employee and patient safety concerns, short-staffing and low wages,” members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West started a planned weeklong strike Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The union, which has been bargaining with hospital management over a new labor contract…

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Opinion | When Health Care Workers Are Protected, Patients Are, Too

May 9, 2022 Sharika Soukup

America was in a health care crisis before Covid, and the stresses of the pandemic have made it worse. Since the pandemic began, the health care work force — the country’s largest industry by employment — has shrunk by nearly 2 percent. That may seem like a small amount, but historically, the health care work…

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After Medical Bills Broke the Bank, This Family Headed to Mexico for Care

May 7, 2022 Sharika Soukup

The Fierro family of Yuma, Arizona, had a string of bad medical luck that started in December 2020. That’s when Jesús Fierro Sr. was admitted to the hospital with a serious covid-19 infection. He spent 18 days at Yuma Regional Medical Center, where he lost 60 pounds. He came home weak and dependent on an…

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