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A new perk for state workers: free surgery
By Michelle Crouch What if your health plan offered free surgery, but only by surgeons on its approved list? That’s the incentive behind a new program the North Carolina State Health Plan is rolling out for more than 700,000 teachers, state workers and their families. The plan connects members needing certain procedures with a select…
Tens of thousands of mothers were flagged to police over flawed drug tests at childbirth
By Shoshana Walter and Jill Castellano The Marshall Project Ayanna Harris-Rashid was sitting up in bed, her newborn son latched to her breast, one hand scrolling on her phone, when the police called. She was wanted on a felony charge of child neglect. Harris-Rashid had just had her third child in March of 2021. To ease pain and…
ACA enrollment dropped sharply in North Carolina. More people across the state are expected to lose coverage.
By Jacob Biba NCLocal Amid rising costs and the expiration of enhanced subsidies, fewer North Carolina residents enrolled in health coverage under the Affordable Care Act for 2026, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. What is ACA Coverage and why do people use it? Signed into law in…
Dentists, oral health advocates urge EPA to use ‘gold standard science’ in its fluoride review
By Anne Blythe When Lee Zeldin, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced almost 10 months ago that the federal regulator would reevaluate research on potential health risks of fluoride in drinking water, he said “sound science” would be used to “advance our mission of protecting human and health and the environment.” Now, with…
After an abnormal mammogram, a battle for care
By Michelle Crouch The Charlotte Ledger Kimberly Sanders thought she was doing the right thing when she stepped into a mobile mammogram van parked outside her Charlotte workplace, a primary care clinic, last October. It seemed like a simple, convenient way to get her annual breast cancer screening. But when the scan came back abnormal,…
Hard-fought environmental justice gains fall before shifting federal priorities, leaving communities in renewed uncertainty
By Will Atwater Last week, the second administration of President Donald Trump fulfilled a long-held goal of the fossil fuel industry: scaling back federal climate regulations that restrict oil, gas and coal production. The administration rescinded the 2009 scientific determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare — known as Environmental Protection Agency’s Endangerment…
