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SACRAMENTO — Influential health care interests are jockeying over a potential infusion of $19.4 billion into Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, while also angling for a 2024 ballot initiative to permanently lock in that…

The federal government is reconsidering a decision that breast cancer patients, plastic surgeons, and members of Congress have protested would limit women’s options for reconstructive surgery. On June 1, the Centers for…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Gov. Gavin Newsom took office four years ago, the Democrat went after Republicans on the national stage as they sought to gut the Affordable Care Act. Key to his ambitious health care agenda: reinstating…

Robert Benincasa, NPR and Nick McMillan, NPR Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 when she was working in a weaving plant near her home in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and the world around her seemed to go dim.…

Ronnie Cohen While physicians mostly applauded a government-appointed panel’s recommendation that women get routine mammography screening for breast cancer starting at age 40, down from 50, not everyone approves. Some…

Judith Graham Cardiovascular disease — the No. 1 cause of death among people 65 and older — is poised to become more prevalent in the years ahead, disproportionately affecting Black and Hispanic communities and exacting an enormous toll…

Rachana Pradhan State abortion bans in Tennessee and beyond, which constrain women’s health care, have put family planning clinics at risk of losing their federal funding. The conflict involves the Title X family planning…

Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If the experience and the insurer’s…

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez West Wendover, Nevada — En abril, Mark Lee Dickson llegó a esta ciudad de 4,500 habitantes que bordea la frontera con Utah para promover una ordenanza que prohíba el aborto. Dickson es el…

Cuando los antepasados de John Mestas se mudaron a Colorado hace más de 100 años para criar ovejas en el Valle de San Luis, “llegaron al paraíso”, contó. “Había tanta agua que pensaron que nunca se acabaría”, dijo Mestas…