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Fewer NC children dying at the hands of a parent or caregiver, new report shows

NC Health News

More Coverage of Children’s Health What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year. While state funding for the centers was recently increased, federal funding has been decreasing, NC Health News has reported. They’re not a problem group, he said.

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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

In one case highlighted in a September article , a cancer patient was charged hundreds of dollars more after Novant Health acquired her oncology practice, even though she had been seeing the same doctor in the same building at a lower cost before the acquisition. As leadership in the U.S. North Carolinians who came to D.C.

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What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

NC Health News

Well be closely following the incoming administrations movements on Medicaid and related health policies in the weeks and months ahead. The National Conference of State Legislatures also predicted addressing the health care workforce shortage as another top issue for state legislatures next year.

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10 Ways an ACA Repeal Could Impact Our Health

Black Health Matters

“As president, Trump’s budget proposals included plans to convert the ACA into block grants to states, cap federal funding for Medicaid, and allow states to relax the ACA’s rules protecting people with pre-existing conditions,” says Samantha Artiga, vice president and director of the Racial Equity and Health Policy Program at KFF. “If