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Financial pressures prompt women’s services cuts at NC rural hospitals

NC Health News

If a hospital begins to see declining numbers of births, due to an aging or shrinking population in the area, per-birth costs increase dramatically. Most hospitals in the state are governmental, educational and/or nonprofit, which means their pursuit of health care is supposed to come before the balance sheet.

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At His HHS Job Interview, RFK Jr. Stumbles Over Health Policy Basics 

KFF Health News

the anti-vaccine activist President Donald Trump nominated to lead the nation’s top health agency, did little to win over his critics at two Senate confirmation hearings this week. And by botching answers to basic questions about health policy, Kennedy supplied some evidence. Kennedy Jr., Bill Cassidy (R-La.),