Race & Health

Fernando Viera Reyes necesitaba una biopsia por un posible cáncer de próstata cuando el gobierno de Trump lo envió a un centro de detención de inmigrantes en el desierto de Mojave, en California. Allí, esperó. Reyes, ahora de 51 años, solicitó reiteradas veces el procedimiento, según una demanda presentada en noviembre contra el gobierno federal, […]

Lonny and Teyon Fritzler stand outside their childhood home on the Crow Indian Reservation in Lodge Grass, Montana. The house has sat empty for years since both men left town to recover from their meth addictions. (Katheryn Houghton/KFF Health News) LODGE GRASS, Mont. — Brothers Lonny and Teyon Fritzler walked amid the tall grass and […]

NEW ORLEANS — Elyse Stevens had a reputation for taking on complex medical cases. People who’d been battling addiction for decades. Chronic-pain patients on high doses of opioids. Sex workers and people living on the street. “Many of my patients are messy, the ones that don’t know if they want to stop using drugs or […]

ORANGE, California — Una mañana reciente, Carmen Basu, abrigada con una chaqueta roja y una bufanda de lana, se paró frente a la sede del plan de salud local, luego de recoger alimentos gratuitos. Había traído a su esposo, a su hijo adolescente y a su suegra de 79 años para que la ayudaran. Tomaron […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old son will kill or be killed. “That’s what I’m trying to avoid,” said Ferguson, who still calls Quincy Jackson III her baby. She remembers a boy who dressed himself in three-piece suits, donated his allowance, and graduated high school at 16 with an academic scholarship and plans […]

BALTIMORE — David Fitzgerald knows how tough it is to prevent gun violence. In 15 years working in some of Baltimore’s deadliest neighborhoods for a program called Safe Streets, he said, he’s defused hundreds of fights that could have led to a shooting. The effort, part of Baltimore’s more than $100 million gun violence prevention […]

PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation guns can inflict. Robbers shot him in the back nearly two decades ago, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. The bullet remains lodged in his spine. “When you get shot,” he said, “you stop thinking about the future.” He is anchored by his […]

PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, de 35 años, conoce por experiencia personal la devastación que puede causar un arma. Hace casi dos décadas, unos ladrones le dispararon por la espalda, dejándolo paralizado del pecho hacia abajo. La bala aún permanece alojada en su columna. “Cuando te disparan, dejas de pensar en el futuro”, dijo. Su esposa, […]

KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed Affordable Care Act subsidies on Crooked Media’s What a Day on Dec. 10 and on Slate’s What Next on Dec. 9. Click here to hear Rovner on What a Day. Click here to hear Rovner on What Next. KFF Health News Washington health policy reporter Amanda […]

The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care. But the government made minimal mention of Native American tribes in sparsely populated areas and in need of significant improvements to health care access. Federally recognized tribes can’t directly apply for a share of […]