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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. Isaacs immune system was on high alert and could continue to attack his intestines. She spent hours on the phone between the company, pharmacy and the physician. Hes now 10 years old and back to playing soccer, she said.

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

HEALTHBEAT

On the ground, health care experts and homeless service providers say the law enforcement crackdown is undercutting taxpayer investments in evidence-based treatment and housing services that are being deployed by cities and states around the nation as politicians look to the health care system to aggressively move people off the streets.

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“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion

The Health Care Blog

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In late June, 2024, two economists, Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Zack Cooper, from the University of Chicago and Yale respectively, released an economic analysis arguing that hospital mergers damage local economies and result in an increase in deaths by suicide and drug overdoses in the markets where mergers occur.

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From abortion to Hurricane Helene to medical debt, here’s what drew readers to NC Health News in 2024

NC Health News

As we look back on the year that was, some of the most-read NC Health News stories included articles about Helenes effects, from its upheaval of municipal water systems to the use of cadaver dogs and other issues that arose during the aftermath of the havoc generated by the storm. Roy Cooper told NC Health News during a Sept.

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10 Ways an ACA Repeal Could Impact Our Health

Black Health Matters

healthcare system. If enacted, those plans would have reduced federal funding for health care by about $1 trillion over a decade, with the trade-offs being higher out-of-pocket premiums for people, more uninsured, higher spending and greater risk for states, and restrictions in Medicaid eligibility.”