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Legislative battle continues over how to address health care costs in North Carolina

NC Health News

He was diagnosed with severe Crohns disease Isaacs immune system had decided that his own intestines were an enemy. Franklins insurance company required prior approval before covering the medications Isaac needed a process that took months, Franklin said. We reached out to 16 health economists and spoke to seven of them.

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Homeless sweeps thwarting health care in California as medicine, ID lost

HEALTHBEAT

Andrew Douglass shoved his clothes and belongings into plastic trash bags as five police officers surrounded his encampment — a drab gray tent overflowing along a bustling sidewalk in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood, where homeless people lie sprawled on public sidewalks, sometimes in drug overdoses.