A Medicare pilot program will use AI for prior authorizations. Doctors and lawmakers are alarmed.
Companies make more money by denying more care.
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Miners with black lung disease push back against Trump failure to enforce new silica rule
They believe the administration’s actions favor mining operator profits over worker safety.
Farmer: ‘The pain has spread far beyond my fields. Every person and business in rural America is feeling it.’
“We’re on the verge of the nation’s worst farm crisis since the 1980s.”
If Congress doesn’t extend enhanced health care tax credits, 4 million rural Americans could face steep premium hikes
Some premiums could more than double.
Rural Americans already face food insecurity. Will Republican lawmakers leave them even hungrier?
Many rural residents already face the daily struggle of not having enough food. Republican lawmakers eager to cut SNAP benefits may be about to make their battle with hunger worse. “These are anything but good times in rural America, which has been hit by everything from tariffs to extreme weather
Medicaid cuts will hurt rural Americans.
But if Congress doesn't shrink Medicaid, how can they pay for Trump’s tax cuts?
Listeria outbreak linked to a Boar’s Head plant is an example of why regulation without consequences fails
Citations were issued, but nothing else was done. Then people died.
Walz is a hunter, a former soldier, and a ‘rural for real’ man on the Democratic ticket
An Iowa editor weighs in on Tim Walz as the VP candidate
