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A home and vehicle in northern Altadena, California that were damaged by the 2025 wildfires in the Los Angeles area. | COURTESY/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Doctors, nurses press ahead as wildfires strain Los Angeles’ health care

The raging fires have closed medical offices, clogged roads, triggered the evacuation of nursing facilities and caused health care providers to flee their homes
Jan 14
Nurses and other health care workers along with their supporters took to the picket lines outside Providence Portland Medical Center on Monday as the state’s largest nurses union called a five-day strike. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Providence asks to resume bargaining with nurses union despite strike

Oregon's largest hospital system has asked a federal mediator to resume sessions with the Oregon Nurses Association. More than 4,000 nurses and other providers are striking, but the system says a large number have crossed the picket lines.
Jan 11
Emily Dwyer
When Emily Dwyer was 15 and in need of treatment for anorexia, her parents had to refinance the mortgage on their home to pay for it after United Healthcare denied coverage. | COURTESY IF ILANA PANICH-LINSMAN

Insurers continue to rely on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts

In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposing their conclusions.
Jan 9
After facing public opposition, Union Health in Terre Haute, Indiana, pulled back its request to take over Terre Haute Regional Hospital under the state’s 2021 Certificate of Public Advantage law, which shields hospital mergers from antitrust enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission. Now a state lawmaker has proposed revoking the law that made such a merger possible. | SAMANTHA LISS/KFF HEALTH NEWS

Indiana state senator moves to scrap hospital monopoly law he helped create

A Republican lawmaker in Indiana is pushing to repeal a hospital merger law he authored in light of concerns and opposition from the Federal Trade Commission; critics said state laws that promote such mergers hurt consumers and workers
Jan 9

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