<p>Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.<br>—</p><p>Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million — a warning for other states looking to impose restrictions on Medicaid in a second Trump presidency.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-to-coverage-hurdles?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-to-coverage-hurdles?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/geo</span><span class="invisible">rgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-to-coverage-hurdles?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>
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We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech<br><p>Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn<br><br>Maine’s exchange, CoverME.gov, sent information on drug prescriptions and dosages to Google through an analytics tool. It also sent the names of doctors and hospitals that people had previously visited.<br></p>Google is an illegal monopoly, losing three different antitrust cases in the US over the last few years. None of us should be sending them data anymore, let alone state-run services.<br><br><a href="https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/we-caught-4-more-states-sharing-personal-health-data-with-big-tech" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/we-caught-4-more-states-sharing-personal-health-data-with-big-tech"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/</span><span class="invisible">06/17/we-caught-4-more-states-sharing-personal-health-data-with-big-tech</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/maine/" rel="tag">#maine</a> <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/healthdata/" rel="tag">#HealthData</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/illegalmonopoly/" rel="tag">#IllegalMonopoly</a><br>
<p>After Vernor’s breathing machine stopped working, a Lincare representative promised his mother a company respiratory therapist would stay in contact “until we get him a new machine.”</p><p>But she didn’t hear from Lincare until 7 days later, the same day Vernor died.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/lincare-wrongful-death-lawsuit-sleep-apnea-oxygen?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/lincare-wrongful-death-lawsuit-sleep-apnea-oxygen?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/lin</span><span class="invisible">care-wrongful-death-lawsuit-sleep-apnea-oxygen?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/sleepapnea/" rel="tag">#SleepApnea</a></p>
<p>A Health System Is Fighting Idaho’s Abortion Ban. It’s Not Its First Controversial Stance.<br>—</p><p>St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/st-lukes-hospital-idaho-abortion-ban?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/st-lukes-hospital-idaho-abortion-ban?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/st-</span><span class="invisible">lukes-hospital-idaho-abortion-ban?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/idaho/" rel="tag">#Idaho</a> <a href="/tags/abortion/" rel="tag">#Abortion</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
<p>Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.<br>—</p><p>GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/geo</span><span class="invisible">rgia-medicaid-work-requirement-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> <a href="/tags/bigbeautifulbill/" rel="tag">#BigBeautifulBill</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>'s <a href="/tags/onebigbeautifulbill/" rel="tag">#OneBigBeautifulBill</a> cuts federal <a href="/tags/spending/" rel="tag">#spending</a> on <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> & <a href="/tags/affordablecareact/" rel="tag">#AffordableCareAct</a> marketplaces by ~$1 trillion over a decade, acc/to the <a href="/tags/nonpartisan/" rel="tag">#nonpartisan</a> <a href="/tags/cbo/" rel="tag">#CBO</a>, threatening the physical & financial <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> of tens of millions of <a href="/tags/americans/" rel="tag">#Americans</a>.</p><p>The bill, which the <a href="/tags/senate/" rel="tag">#Senate</a> passed Tues, would reverse many of the health coverage gains of <a href="/tags/biden/" rel="tag">#Biden</a> & <a href="/tags/obama/" rel="tag">#Obama</a>, whose policies made it easier for millions of people to access <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> & reduced the US <a href="/tags/uninsured/" rel="tag">#uninsured</a> rate to record lows.</p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5453870/senate-republicans-tax-bill-medicaid-health-care" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5453870/senate-republicans-tax-bill-medicaid-health-care"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.npr.org/sections/shots-hea</span><span class="invisible">lth-news/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5453870/senate-republicans-tax-bill-medicaid-health-care</span></a></p>
<p>The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of upholding key provisions of the Affordable Care Act—a WIN for health care access.</p><p><a href="/tags/scotus/" rel="tag">#scotus</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#UnitedStates</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/27/supreme-court-rulings-decisions-today-news-analysis/supreme-court-ruling-obamacare-braidwood-00428003" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/27/supreme-court-rulings-decisions-today-news-analysis/supreme-court-ruling-obamacare-braidwood-00428003"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.politico.com/live-updates/</span><span class="invisible">2025/06/27/supreme-court-rulings-decisions-today-news-analysis/supreme-court-ruling-obamacare-braidwood-00428003</span></a></p>
<p>On Dec. 7, we’re taking you to Albany, Georgia, and telling a story as we never have before.</p><p>In a new 5-part series, ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues one question: “Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?”</p><p>Sign up to get this story as soon as it publishes: <a href="https://www.propublica.org/newsletters/the-big-story" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/newsletters/the-big-story"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/newsletters</span><span class="invisible">/the-big-story</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/lisamurkowski/" rel="tag">#LisaMurkowski</a> will never be looked at as someone w decency again. She's a ghoul. She is <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#maga</a> </p><p>"This Awful Mistake Will Haunt Her for The Rest of Her Life" </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFmQ14XWFM" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFmQ14XWFM"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFmQ1</span><span class="invisible">4XWFM</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/bbb/" rel="tag">#bbb</a> <a href="/tags/bigbeautifulbill/" rel="tag">#bigbeautifulbill</a> <a href="/tags/alaska/" rel="tag">#alaska</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#uk</a> <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#france</a> <a href="/tags/germany/" rel="tag">#germany</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/budget/" rel="tag">#budget</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/snap/" rel="tag">#SNAP</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a></p>
<p>What lengths will a hospital go to in order to become the only game in town — and what does it mean for the patients?</p><p>Read Sick in a Hospital Town, a new series debuting Dec. 7 on ProPublica.</p><p>➡️ Sign up to get this investigation in your inbox as soon as it's published: <a href="https://www.propublica.org/newsletters/the-big-story" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/newsletters/the-big-story"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/newsletters</span><span class="invisible">/the-big-story</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a></p>
<p>For the residents of one Georgia town, the name “Phoebe” dominates the economic, political and health care landscape.</p><p>On Dec. 7, see what it’s like to be sick in a hospital town.</p><p>✉️ Sign up to receive this investigation in your inbox: <a href="https://www.propublica.org/newsletters/the-big-story" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/newsletters/the-big-story"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/newsletters</span><span class="invisible">/the-big-story</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a></p>
<p>The story of Albany, Georgia, is the story of American health care.</p><p>Sick in a Hospital Town, a new series from ProPublica, debuts Sunday, Dec. 7.</p><p>Sign up to get it in your inbox: <a href="https://www.propublica.org/newsletters/the-big-story" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/newsletters/the-big-story"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/newsletters</span><span class="invisible">/the-big-story</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>
<p>Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills.</p><p>But the insurer did make some exceptions. On several occasions, Blue Cross executives signed deals to pay for their wives’ treatment.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-blue-shield-louisiana-insurance-lawsuit-breast-cancer-doctors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-blue-shield-louisiana-insurance-lawsuit-breast-cancer-doctors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/blu</span><span class="invisible">e-cross-blue-shield-louisiana-insurance-lawsuit-breast-cancer-doctors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/cancer/" rel="tag">#Cancer</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/louisiana/" rel="tag">#Louisiana</a></p>
<p>The <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> plan already funded by the Public has been scuttled with NO replacement. The tax credits to states - also already paid for by the Public - funding hundreds of me marketplace programs that provide <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> & <a href="/tags/medical/" rel="tag">#medical</a> services to tens of thousands of people, were taken and given away by <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> - largely by donors to the Senate Minority Leader and House Speaker, with a few vague promises to negotiate some scraps back, all now evidently broken. At the end of 2025 the so-called Private <a href="/tags/insurance/" rel="tag">#Insurance</a> Industry was greenlighted massive increases to premiums and the associated payments of co-insurance & deductibles. The 2026 budget will scrap virtually all of <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> and most of <a href="/tags/medicare/" rel="tag">#Medicare</a> right after this year's midterm <a href="/tags/elections/" rel="tag">#elections</a>. Particularly in rural areas, upward of 40% of hospital revenues come from Medicaid reimbursements which will abruptly cease. HUNDREDS OF HOSPITALS NATIONWIDE are likely to shut down and, in some areas, nearly all will sharply reduce critical services like primary care, emergency rooms, OB/GYN, pharmacy, dialysis, and pediatrics. Many of these particular services will be consolidated to other <a href="/tags/hospitals/" rel="tag">#hospitals</a> far away with no transportation provided. Thousands will die, tens of thousands will be impoverished, as a direct result. A national <a href="/tags/economic/" rel="tag">#economic</a> failure is more than merely likely. And without good cause; only to crush the Public and to transfer away the remains of its <a href="/tags/wealth/" rel="tag">#wealth</a> - our <a href="/tags/savings/" rel="tag">#savings</a>, our <a href="/tags/investments/" rel="tag">#investments</a> - for <a href="/tags/redistribution/" rel="tag">#redistribution</a> to the untaxed parasites who create nothing, to further ensure that their next six generations will be exempted from the Social Compact.</p><p>TrumpRx Denounced as Corrupt Scheme to Line Pockets of Big Pharma—and Don Jr.</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumprx-prescription-drugs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.commondreams.org/news/trumprx-prescription-drugs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.commondreams.org/news/trum</span><span class="invisible">prx-prescription-drugs</span></a></p><p>> "Trump has dressed up yet another corporate giveaway as a boon to <a href="/tags/patients/" rel="tag">#patients</a>," said one watchdog. "Real drug price reform doesn’t look like a website."</p>
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<p>We’re proud to welcome to the Observer masthead <span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsie.social/@candicequestions" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>candicequestions</span></a></span> and Mary Tuma as special investigative correspondents, joining <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@stevanzetti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stevanzetti</span></a></span> as freelance reporters helping us tackle the <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a>, reproductive rights, and <a href="/tags/extremism/" rel="tag">#extremism</a> respectively: <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/home/staff/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/home/staff/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/home/sta</span><span class="invisible">ff/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/reproductiverights/" rel="tag">#ReproductiveRights</a> <a href="/tags/abortion/" rel="tag">#abortion</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/nonprofit/" rel="tag">#nonprofit</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a></p>
<p>📽️ WATCH: The most powerful institution in Albany, Georgia, is its hospital: Phoebe Putney Memorial. Yet for decades, the city’s residents have suffered some of the nation’s worst health disparities.</p><p>“Sick in a Hospital Town,” our new 5-part series, drops tomorrow, Dec. 7.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvl7TOp7aXk" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvl7TOp7aXk"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvl7TO</span><span class="invisible">p7aXk</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a> <a href="/tags/documentary/" rel="tag">#Documentary</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/investigation/" rel="tag">#Investigation</a></p>
<p>In Part 2 of “Sick in a Hospital Town,” we look at how a century-old community hospital in Albany, Georgia, became the only hospital in town — and grew into a sprawling health care system by waging a yearslong battle to eliminate its competition.<br><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-two/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-two/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/albany</span><span class="invisible">-georgia-hospital/part-two/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistory/" rel="tag">#BlackHistory</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>
<p>NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:</p><p>Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?</p><p>Start with Part 1 here: <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-one/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-one/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/albany</span><span class="invisible">-georgia-hospital/part-one/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#Poverty</a> <a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#COVID</a></p>
<p>These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.<br>---</p><p>Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay. But ProPublica found at least five across the country filing lawsuits and garnishing paychecks to collect unpaid bills.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/federally-qualified-health-centers-unpaid-bills-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/federally-qualified-health-centers-unpaid-bills-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fed</span><span class="invisible">erally-qualified-health-centers-unpaid-bills-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#Poverty</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/lawsuit/" rel="tag">#Lawsuit</a> <a href="/tags/debt/" rel="tag">#Debt</a></p>
<p>“We had soiled beds, waiting rooms with holes in the chairs, mounting sepsis issues and had just laid off 200 qualified nurses,” a former Phoebe executive recalled, “but we had a new logo.”</p><p>Read Part 3 of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:<br><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-three/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-three/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/albany</span><span class="invisible">-georgia-hospital/part-three/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#Poverty</a> <a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#COVID</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>
<p>When a well-off, widely respected pillar of the community and member of the hospital’s board can’t get the care he needs at the town’s only hospital, it raises the question: Who can?<br><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-five/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-five/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/albany</span><span class="invisible">-georgia-hospital/part-five/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/hospital/" rel="tag">#Hospital</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
<p>Introducing the September/October 2025 issue of Texas Observer magazine, with cover art by Adrià Volt, and stories by Michelle Pitcher, Julie Poole, Francesca D'Annunzio and more. </p><p>Become a member to get our magazine 6 times per year: <a href="https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.fundjournalism.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/join/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#disability</a> <a href="/tags/nonprofit/" rel="tag">#nonprofit</a></p>
<p>Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis<br>---</p><p>The recent government shutdown, with families skipping meals and babies unfed, could have been a preview of what’s to come when Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill shifts billions in costs for the SNAP program to states that may not be able to afford them.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/food-stamps-crisis-snap-big-beautiful-bill-state-tax-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/food-stamps-crisis-snap-big-beautiful-bill-state-tax-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/foo</span><span class="invisible">d-stamps-crisis-snap-big-beautiful-bill-state-tax-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/snap/" rel="tag">#SNAP</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#Poverty</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#Food</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/tax/" rel="tag">#Tax</a></p>
<p>The vaccine laws of many states are tied to ACIP’s recommendations…incl. for school entry, guidelines for health care workers, whether pharmacists can provide <a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#COVID</a> vaccinations…</p><p>Without those recommendations, states are creating their own rules, seeking information elsewhere & banding together to ensure coverage for their citizens (excluding Florida, which has gone in the opposite direction & seeks to end all vaccine mandates).</p><p>1🧵<br><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#vaccines</a><br>—<br><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/06/nx-s1-5532121/states-vaccine-guidance-washington-oregon-new-mexico" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/06/nx-s1-5532121/states-vaccine-guidance-washington-oregon-new-mexico"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.npr.org/sections/shots-hea</span><span class="invisible">lth-news/2025/09/06/nx-s1-5532121/states-vaccine-guidance-washington-oregon-new-mexico</span></a></p>
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<p>Canadians know their healthcare isn't 'free'</p><p>But they also know what they ought to be getting for their taxes.</p><p>Canadians know that public insurance works on exactly the same principle as private insurance, </p><p>so they ought to know that privatization is the theft of the premiums they've already paid public insurance</p><p><a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#CANADA</a> <br><a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#Healthcare</a></p>