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Infant deaths increased after Texas banned abortion in early pregnancy ( www.statnews.com )

Among the causes of infant deaths, one increased the most: congenital abnormalities, which increased 22.9% in Texas in children between 2021 and 2022, while they decreased 2.9% in the rest of the country. That trend suggests that at least in some cases, parents were forced to carry a pregnancy to term while knowing their...

Troubled for-profit chains are stealthily operating dozens of psychiatric hospitals under nonprofits’ names ( www.statnews.com )

Large nonprofit health systems like Geisinger, Ascension, and Henry Ford are forming joint ventures with investor-owned psychiatric hospital operators such as Acadia and Universal Health Services. While these hospitals often carry the names of the nonprofits, for-profit companies with questionable track records manage...

Medicaid is paying millions for salty, fat-laden ‘medically tailored’ cheeseburgers and sandwiches ( www.statnews.com )

They’re marketed as healthy, “dietitian-approved” meals and delivered directly to the homes of people seriously ill from cancer, diabetes, or heart disease: a Jimmy Dean frozen sausage breakfast sandwich, biscuits and gravy, a cheeseburger....

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