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North Carolina governor and allies celebrate kickoff of Medicaid expansion
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Roy Cooper and health care advocates celebrated Friday's official start of Medicaid expansion in North Carolina, the result of state legislation this year that's expected to help roughly 600,000 low-income adults obtain the government health insurance. ...
Pope says he has acute bronchitis, doctors recommended against travel to avoid change in temperature
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said on Thursday that he is suffering from acute, infectious bronchitis and that doctors recommended he cancel his planned visit to Dubai this weekend to avoid the quick changes in temperature that would be involved. “As you can see, I’m alive,”...
Hundreds of thousands in North Carolina will be added to Medicaid rolls this week
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A decade after the federal government began offering expanded Medicaid coverage in states that opted to accept it, hundreds of thousands of adults in North Carolina are set to receive benefits, a development that boosters say will aid hospitals and local economies in addition...
Pope Francis is still having trouble breathing due to lung inflammation, Vatican says
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is still having trouble breathing as a result of a lung inflammation that forced him to cancel his scheduled address at the U.N. climate conference in Dubai and to delegate the reading of his weekly catechesis lesson and other remarks to aides, the Vatican said...
Ransomware attack prompts multistate hospital chain to divert some emergency room patients elsewhere
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A ransomware attack has prompted a health care chain that operates 30 hospitals in six states to divert patients from some of its emergency rooms to other hospitals while postponing certain elective procedures. Ardent Health Services said it took its network...
Georgia Senate panel calls for abolishing state permits for health facilities
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Senate committee recommended on Tuesday that the state abolish its requirements for permits to build health facilities, setting up a renewed push on the issue after a debate in the 2023 legislative session mushroomed into a House-Senate standoff. The...
Pope cancels trip to Dubai for UN climate conference on doctors' orders while recovering from flu
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis canceled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors’ orders Tuesday, even though he is recovering from the flu and lung inflammation, the Vatican said. Francis, who turns 87 next month, was scheduled to leave Rome on Friday to...
Editorial Roundup: Illinois
Champaign News-Gazette. November 26, 2023. Editorial: PAC’s shenanigans another sign of political class’ disrespect for law, Illinois No one is ever going to brag about the effective oversight of campaign spending in Illinois. Campaign disclosure rules were...
NFL disability program leaves retired Saints tight end hurting and angry
Boo Williams wakes up each morning not knowing how the pain will hit. It could be debilitating headaches that make it impossible to get out of bed. Sometimes the pain shoots down his neck. Through all of it, he's angry. Williams, who played tight end for the Saints from 2001-05,...
Editorial Roundup: Minnesota
Minneapolis Star Tribune. November 20, 2023. Editorial: Buyer beware on ‘health care sharing ministries’ What seems like a good deal on health insurance may be quite risky. O pen enrollment is the window of time at the year’s end when consumers...
