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Hospitals are legally obligated to find suitable places to discharge patients, but their insurance status makes all the difference. Things get complicated if people have entered the country illegally.
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When Martin Machain arrived to Los Angeles from Mexico years ago, he didn’t know where to turn for health care. Machain migrated to the US to escape…
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Laldin Liana, a recently-arrived refugee, sits in his doctor’s office in Columbia, Missouri, talking about his life – his favorite Jason Statham movies,…
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Celia Aguilar wears a long, loosely fitted white dress with touches of red embroidery and red bandanas tied around her head and waist. The 29-year-old…
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Raucous laughter fills a small communal kitchen as ten men shout and joke with each other in Spanish after a long day of picking apples on an orchard in…
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Los Angeles is finding that community health workers — problem solvers who are untrained in medicine, but fluent in compassion — can be key to helping the county's sickest and neediest get better.
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Local governments say the move to cover preventive health care for people who are in the country illegally will save money overall by reducing the high cost of emergency room visits.
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The Debate Issue That Wasn't: ObamacareDoesn't it seem like just yesterday that Congressional Republicans shut down the federal government to protest…
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Hispanics are less likely to get cancer than non-Hispanic whites, but they're more susceptible to gallbladder, liver and stomach cancer. And country of origin affects cancer risk, too.
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More than 400,000 people had their health insurance canceled this year due to immigration and citizenship issues, up from just 109,000 last year. The news…