Florida Hospitals Discharge Uninsured Gunshot Victims Faster Than Insured Ones
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Florida Hospitals Act Fast To Discharge Gun Victims Especially if Theyre Not Insured
Uninsured patients made up about 1 in 4 of the more than 20,000 gunshot wound inpatient hospitalizations in Florida from 2018 to 2024, an analysis of state data by 窪蹋勛圖厙 News and The Trace found. They also had shorter hospital stays than those with any form of coverage.
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Guns Marketed for Personal Safety Fuel Public Health Crisis in Black Communities
During the covid pandemic, gun marketers told many Americans they needed firearms to defend against criminals and protesters. Then firearm deaths mounted rapidly in racially segregated and low-income neighborhoods, according to federal data.
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Disability Bias Complaints Peak as the Office That Investigates Them Is Gutted
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Parents Fear Losing Disability Protections as Trump Slashes Civil Rights Office
The Education Departments civil rights office often intervenes when students face discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or disability and their families cant resolve complaints locally. Parents fear the effort to gut the federal agency will leave them with nowhere to seek justice.
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Guns, Race, and Profit: The Pain of Americas Other Epidemic
Firearm violence is killing Americans at the scale of a public health epidemic. The suffering is concentrated in Black neighborhoods damaged by segregation, disinvestment, hate crimes, and other forms of racial discrimination.
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Watch: Why the US Has Made Little Progress Improving Black Americans Health
窪蹋勛圖厙 News senior correspondents Fred Clasen-Kelly and Renuka Rayasam discuss how government decisions undermine Black health.
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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Heres Why Theres So Little Progress.
The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. The government, some critics argue, is often the underlying culprit.
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A Boys Bicycling Death Haunts a Black Neighborhood. 35 Years Later, Theres Still No Sidewalk.
John Parker was in first grade when he was struck by a pickup truck driving on Durhams Cheek Road, which lacks sidewalks to this day. Neighborhoods with no sidewalks, damaged walkways, and roads with high speed limits are concentrated in Black neighborhoods, research finds.
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A Teens Murder, Mold in the Walls: Unfulfilled Promises Haunt Public Housing
For years, federal lawmakers have failed to deliver the money needed to fix derelict public housing, leaving tenants mostly people of color and families with low incomes living with mold and gun violence that has had lasting health consequences.
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US Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis
Gun violence is the No. 1 cause of death for children and teens in America. Vivek Murthy says the toll extends beyond deaths, as survivors deal with a lifetime of physical and mental health impacts and those who witness shootings become traumatized.
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Exclusive: Social Security Chief Vows to Fix Cruel-Hearted Overpayment Clawbacks
New Social Security Commissioner Martin OMalley is promising to change how the agency reclaims billions of dollars it wrongly pays to beneficiaries, saying the existing process is cruel-hearted and mindless.
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Im Not Safe Here: Schools Ignore Federal Rules on Restraint and Seclusion
Federal officials have long warned that restraint and seclusion in schools can be dangerous and traumatizing for children, but school districts often fail to report incidents as required by law.
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I Am Just Waiting to Die: Social Security Clawbacks Drive Some Into Homelessness
The Social Security Administration is reclaiming billions of dollars in alleged overpayments from some of the nation's poorest and most vulnerable, leaving some people homeless or struggling to stay in housing, beneficiaries and advocates say.
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The Painful Pandemic Lessons Mandy Cohen Carries to the CDC
Mandy Cohen, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, earned praise for her leadership and communication as the face of North Carolinas response to covid-19. People in the states most vulnerable communities tell a more complicated story.
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A Mom Owed Nearly $102,000 for Hospital Care. Her State Attorney General Said to Pay Up.
As politicians bash privately run hospitals for their aggressive debt collection tactics, consumer advocates say one North Carolina familys six-figure medical bill is an example of how state attorneys general and state-operated hospitals also can harm patients financially.
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‘A System in Crisis’: Dysfunctional Federal Disability Programs Force the Poor to Pass Up Money
With little or no income, disability applicants are seeking Social Security early retirement benefits even though it could cost them tens of thousands of dollars in future income, lawyers say.
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As US Life Expectancy Falls, Experts Cite the Health Impacts of Incarceration
In a nation with one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, imprisonment speeds the aging process, research shows. Some experts complain the federal government isnt collecting or releasing data that could identify disease patterns and prevent deaths.
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A Law Was Meant to Free Sick or Aging Inmates. Instead, Some Are Left to Die in Prison.
The First Step Act was supposed to help free terminally ill and aging federal inmates who pose little or no threat to public safety. But while petitions for compassionate release skyrocketed during the pandemic, judges denied most requests.
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