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Payback: Tracking Opioid Cash

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Optum Rx Invokes Open Meetings Law To Fight Kentucky Counties on Opioid Suits

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Planned Parenthood Bets on Redistricting To Push Back Against GOP Funding Cuts

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The National Suicide Hotline For LGBTQ+ Youth Went Dead. States Are Scrambling To Help.

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Health Care Groups Aim To Counter Growing 'National Scandal' of Elder Homelessness

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Maryland Taps Affordable Care Act Fund To Help Pay for Abortion Care

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CDC Staff Tell Journalist They Felt Targeted Even Before Atlanta Campus Shooting

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Breaking Down Why Medicare Part D Premiums Are Likely To Go Up

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'A Fear Pandemic': Immigration Raids Push Patients Into Telehealth

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'Alternative Facts' Aren't a Reason To Skip Vaccines

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Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos

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Morning Briefing: Today's News Summaries

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CMS Plans To Remove Noncitizens From Medicaid And CHIP

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RFK Jr. Scoffs At Pediatrics Group For Still Encouraging Covid Vaccines

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Rising Health Care Costs For Employers Means Less Coverage For Employees

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In A First, FDA OKs Glucose Monitoring System For Weight Management

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HHS Authorizes FDA To Use Animal Drugs To Fight Screwworms

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Kentucky Bans 'Designer Xanax' In Response To Increasing Overdoses

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Patient Numbers at NIH Hospital Have Fallen -- Former officials said the drop is a consequence of the upheaval the Trump administration has caused at the agency.

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Rural Health -- Experts say rural emergency rooms are increasingly run without doctors.

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Bill of the Month -- A tourist ended up with a wild bat in her mouth — and nearly $21,000 in medical bills.

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Medicaid Watch -- New Medicaid federal work requirements mean less leeway for states.

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Obamacare Plans -- Even in states that fought Obamacare, Trump's new law poses health consequences.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump Further Politicizes Science

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More California Coverage

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California Taps Medicaid To Train and Recruit Behavioral Health Workers

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As California's Behavioral Health Workforce Buckles, Help Is Years Away

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More From The Midwest Bureau

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More From The Mountain States

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Medicaid Cuts Could Have Vast Ripple Effects in This Rural Colorado Community

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More From The Southern Bureau

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Lawfully Present Immigrants Help Stabilize ACA Plans. Why Does the GOP Want Them Out?

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To Cut Medicaid, the GOP's Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health Care

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This Test Tells You More About Your Heart Attack Risk

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Noticias en Español

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Ya llega la temporada de gripe. ¿Deberías vacunarte? ¿Lo cubrirá el seguro?

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Recortes a Medicaid impactarían muy fuerte en esta comunidad rural de Colorado

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Cuidado con los "datos alternativos", no deben ser un motivo para dejar de vacunarse

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