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Can Freestanding ERs Replace Rural America's Struggling Hospitals? It's Complicated
When the hospital closed in rural Ellington, Missouri, a town of about 1,000, the community lost its only emergency room, too. That was 2016. That same...
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Kansas and Missouri’s poorest, sickest patients get trapped between Medicare and Medicaid
Low-income people who are disabled or over 65 — or both — qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. In 2022, that included 203,000 people in Missouri and 75,000 in Kansas. A bipartisan group of lawmakers agree: the two insurance programs are failing the country's most vulnerable patients.
NPR CEO Katherine Maher addresses future of federal funding for public media
Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media.
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Wichita physician Josh Umbehr has never understood the traditional model of health care reimbursement — the one in which doctors and hospitals fill out…
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By some measures, General Motors is doing fine post-bailout and post-bankruptcy. The company is profitable and makes better cars than it did a generation ago. But its stock price is down sharply, and it still doesn't have a blockbuster car like its competitors Toyota, Honda and Ford.
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Facebook, Google Spread Misinformation About Las Vegas Shooting. What Went Wrong?
The platforms promoted the name of a man falsely accused of being the shooter by surfacing less-credible sites. The companies say they're working on fixes, but analysts say the challenge is massive.
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The Weekend To-Do List: August 9-11, 2013
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KDADS Secretary Stepping Down
Gov. Sam Brownback announced Monday that Kari Bruffett, secretary of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, will resign effective Dec.…
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