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Weekly News Roundup for Feb 10, 2025

  New Code WACK! episode   “…What we do know is that tens of thousands, indeed,hundreds of thousands of people die each yearbecause of holes in our health insurance system.“ – James G. Kahn, MD, MPH     How Many Must Die?America’s Health Crisis Featuring […]

Weekly News Roundup for Feb 3, 2025

  New Code WACK! episode   “…Every year we have deaths which appear to be attributable tohealth insurance problems that are a thousand timesgreater than the deaths in the LA fires.”  – James G. Kahn, MD, MPH     Murder, Money & Medicine: The United […]

Most Insurance Covers IUDs. Hers Cost More Than $14,000.

  “Anderson got a rare glimpse of what can happen when insurance doesn’t cover contraception. The Affordable Care Act requires health plans to offer preventive care, including a variety of contraceptives, without cost to the patient. “But Anderson’s plan doesn’t have to comply with the ACA. That’s […]

Weekly News Roundup for Jan 27, 2025

  New Code WACK! episode   “…when there’s racially concordant care – when there’s carewhere the clinician and the patient are both Black –… there are better outcomes….”  – Uché Blackstock, MD     Health Equity Now: Tackling Racism in Medicine with Dr. Uché Blackstock […]

The Growing Inequality in Life Expectancy Among Americans

  “The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti. For many Asian Americans, it’s around 84 — on par with life expectancies in Japan […]