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Michigan school districts offer insurance-free care to beat rising health costs
Three Michigan school districts are betting that a specialized clinic may be the antidote to surging health care costs. The medical care here at the Corunna Plum Health clinic — inside a collection of converted high school classrooms on the…
Michigan school districts offer insurance-free care to beat rising health costs
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A $421M jury award against Blue Cross heads to the Louisiana Supreme Court
Nearly two years after an Orleans Parish jury rendered a $421 million judgment against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, finding the insurer shortchanged a New Orleans surgical hospital on thousands of reconstructive breast surgeries, the…
CMS taps Mathematica, Deloitte to improve effectiveness of its healthcare models
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has launched a project to help its innovation unit scale the deployment of effective healthcare payment and service delivery models. Mathematica first announced the effort in an Aug. 24 press release…
America built thousands of colleges for more students. Now there are about to be 500,000 fewer of them
America has spent decades building a sprawling higher-education system around a steady supply of college-age students. Now, there are about to be fewer of them to go around. The U.S. graduated a record 3.9 million high school students in 2025. But…
Patient Privacy on Healthcare Websites
When patients share personal information with healthcare or mental healthcare providers, those providers have ethical duties to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the information they collect (ACA, 2014 ; AMA, n.d.;. APA, 2017 ; NASW…
How much does it cost to freeze your eggs?
Egg freezing is becoming an increasingly popular and visible choice among women. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently joined the ranks of public figures who have shared their experience, detailing on social media her own decision-making and the…
Editorial: 56.4% Of Ghanaians Living In Poverty Is Unacceptable! - The Ghanaian Chronicle
The World Bank dropped a bombshell last week, announcing that 56.4% of Ghanaians remain in poverty, which is more than half the country's population. According to the Breton Wood institution, widening disparities across the regions point to a…
Businesses have lost the trust of a generation
Someone in my network moved his family across the country for a new job last year. New schools. New mortgage. A whole life uprooted on the strength of an offer letter. He was laid off eleven weeks later. He is not the exception. I'm part of a…
Older, savvier, and more ambitious
Remaining India's No. 1 life insurer 70 years since inception and 26 years after the insurance sector was opened to private and foreign players is a remarkable achievement in itself, says R Doraiswamy, CEO and MD, Life Insurance Corporation of…
Voter ID, abortion and bans on trans athletes on ballots in November
Voters across the country will be voting on how elections are administered, access to reproductive healthcare and one measure to require students to undergo sex verification examinations to participate in sports as early as elementary school. File…
Changes to Medicaid are coming. Are users ready?
On January 1, thousands of Minnesotans who rely on Medicaid for health insurance will be required to work or volunteer for at least 80 hours per month in order to keep their benefits. Some, however, will be exempt from the requirement, which…
Lawmakers seek solutions after closure of midcoast hospital's birthing center
When MaineHealth announced this spring that it was considering closing the birthing center at Lincoln Hospital in Damariscotta, it sparked fierce community backlash. Many politicians, including Gov. Janet Mills, urged MaineHealth to delay a…
Election 2026: Where governor candidates Garrity and Shapiro stand on Medicaid, fraud, and more
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG — Key federal Medicaid changes will…
Trump's 2027 pay freeze has unions warning of recruitment, retention problems
Organizations representing federal employees and their allies in Congress in recent days have decried President Trump's plan to freeze most federal workers' pay while directing sizeable raises for federal law enforcement and members of the…
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