If people lose insurance, they often rely on emergency rooms. But ERs were never intended to replace primary care, doctors warn
Medicaid cuts could worsen an existing nursing shortage that is already exhausting nurses and putting patients in danger.
When the Medicaid cuts pushed by President Donald Trump go into effect next year, hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians could lose their health insurance, a North Carolina nurse says.
Across eastern NC, emergency care services aren’t always easy to come by and often require long wait times or distant drives.
Mission Hospital, like many across the country, is severely understaffed, posing a risk to patients who seek care there. If Trump’s Medicaid cuts go through, a bad situation will get much worse.
Seventy of North Carolina’s 78 rural counties are considered “medical deserts.”
Free health care clinics hope to bridge the gaps as the loss of Affordable Care Act credits drives up the number of uninsured people in North Carolina.
North Carolina’s healthcare system is facing one battle after another as decisions made in Washington make themselves felt here at home. That’s why we’re launching Bad Medicine.
A person with measles visited several public locations in Wake County on Feb. 5 and 6, including a gym and supermarket.
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that adults who had heard of federal changes to the childhood vaccine schedule were twice as likely to say it would hurt children than help them.
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