Archive for April, 2018
Puerto Rico’s Oversight Board Certifies Fiscal Plan: What are the Implications for Medicaid?
Friday, April 27th, 2018April 24, 2018 Edwin Park As I have previously written, a robust and resilient Medicaid program is essential to Puerto Rico’s long-run recovery from the devastation of Hurricanes Maria and Irma. Its residents disproportionately rely on Medicaid for their health coverage due to their low incomes and relative lack of access to private insurance. For example, 62 percent […]
How is health care in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria? No one knows.
Friday, April 20th, 2018By Mekela Panditharatne April 18 Mekela Panditharatne is an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council In Puerto Rico, locals say the best way to know whether someone died because of Hurricane Maria is to turn up at a morgue or funeral parlor rather than consult official sources. Six months after Maria hit, the hurricane’s death toll is […]
Why America’s Black Mothers And Babies Are In A Life-Or-Death Crisis
Monday, April 16th, 2018NY Times Magazine Feature Article: ‘Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants’ Why America’s Black Mothers And Babies Are In A Life-Or-Death Crisis The New York Times Magazine “‘The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a […]
About Half Of Americans Support Single-payer Health Care
Monday, April 16th, 2018New Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds a slight majority of Americans support single–payer health care approach, with numbers showing glaring partisan divide About Half Of Americans Support Single–payer Health Care The Washington Post “As President Trump’s administration tries to chip away at the Affordable Care Act by giving more authority to states to regulate private insurance, a new poll finds […]
Dialysis Patients are Still Trekking 12 Hours for Care After Hurricane Maria
Friday, April 13th, 2018Left without a hospital, some Puerto Ricans must travel by plane for lifesaving treatment. Joe Garcia and Radamés Cabral Trinidad fly back to Vieques after dialysis treatment.Carmen Heredia Rodriguez / Kaiser Health News CARMEN HEREDIA RODRIGUEZ VIEQUES, P.R.—As the cry of a rooster heralded the dawn, Joe Garcia, 41, pulled a vial of insulin from […]