Tag: healthcare crisis
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Congress Lets Crucial Health Program for 9 Million Children Lapse This Weekend
Get Pregnant Fast As Congress grapples with its latest attempts to dismantle Obamacare through the Graham-Cassidy proposal, another vital health insurance program faces an alarming crisis. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has officially lost its funding authorization as of September 30, marking a troubling first in over a decade. CHIP, as detailed on Healthcare.gov,…
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Rural U.S. Faces Severe Shortage of OB-GYN Services
Get Pregnant Fast Growing up in a quaint little town in Wisconsin, where the population seemed to be outnumbered by cows, I witnessed firsthand the challenges of accessing healthcare. My mother had to journey 40 miles to deliver my younger siblings due to their higher-risk births, which was a relatively easy option compared to what…