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Listen: NPR and KFF Health News Explore How Racism and Violence Hurt Health

KFF Health News

KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony and Emily Kwong, host of NPR’s podcast “ Shortwave ,” talk about Black families living in the aftermath of lynchings and police killings in their communities. Hear the full podcast episodes Anthony and Kwong reference from “Silence in Sikeston” here.

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Watch: ‘Silence in Sikeston & The Effects of Racial Violence’

KFF Health News

KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony appeared in a two-part special of Nine PBS’ “Listen, St. 9, explores the connections between a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police shooting in a rural Missouri community — and what those killings say about the nation’s silencing of racial trauma. Learn more about KFF.

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‘Breaking Down Interstate Barriers to Telehealth Delivery’ Tops ATA’s Priorities for 2023

The Health Care Blog

by JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH. Kyle Zebley, SVP of Public Policy at the ATA and Executive Director of ATA Action (the ATA’s affiliate advocacy organization) gives us the skinny on where policies currently stand at the federal and state level and, more importantly, what’s in jeopardy of changing soon.

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‘No one can see you now’: What states are doing to boost primary care

Association of Health Care Journalists

Evidence abounds that access to primary care improves health and lowers costs. And yet, only 5% of health care spending in this country goes to primary care, less than in any other Western democracy. Freyer is a health care journalist based in Rhode Island. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island.

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Mountain Town Confronts an Unexpected Public Health Catastrophe

KFF Health News

Without electricity, their health is at risk. Fitzsimmons, Weaverville’s mayor, said he’s concerned about the impact of the storm on mental health. ” Richard Zenn, chief medical officer at North Carolina-based Vaya Health, said the recovery will be long. ” U.S. “Their nerves are frayed.”

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. As a consequence, the Biden administration has targeted the health care industry for enhanced and more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Forty years later, there were 700 fewer facilities generating about $1.2

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Stein’s budget proposal invests in health care workforce, child care, improved access

NC Health News

Stein, a Democrat who served as attorney general for the past eight years and a legislator in the General Assembly before that, noted that such a commitment includes health care. Too many families cant afford bare necessities like groceries, housing, health care. So we have to lower costs whenever we can. Allocating $1.3