Funding Cuts Outrage
Health and home care workers protest cuts to Medicaid: ‘It’s not a luxury; it’s a necessity’ Rebekah Mahon, an Illinois Division of Rehabilitation Services personal assistant and single mother, relies on Medicaid and SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) to support herself and her 2-year-old child. Recently, though, she says she lost her SNAP benefits […]
The Lone Private Practice
The number of self-employed physicians has been declining for years — but why, and at what cost? Fact checked by Derick Wilder Farah Khan, MD, has been a private-practice physician for 19 years. At 52, she says most young doctors aren’t interested in running their own practice. By contrast, working in a hospital means […]
