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Michigan Lawmaker Introduces Bill Requiring State Health Plans to Cover Cutting-Edge Cancer Treatments

After ProPublica reported on a Michigan insurer that wouldn’t cover a cancer patient’s last-chance treatment, a state lawmaker introduced a measure compelling health plans to cover a new generation of advanced cancer therapies.

Committed to Jail

Lawmakers Could Limit When County Officials in Mississippi Can Jail People Awaiting Psychiatric Treatment

The legislation follows reporting by Mississippi Today and ProPublica showing that hundreds of people in the state are jailed every year while awaiting court-ordered treatment simply because public mental health facilities are full or too far away.

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Veterans Without Assistance

Veterans Affairs Secretary Vows to Increase Staffing at Clinic Tied to Two Deadly Shootings

The Northern California clinic was the focus of a recent ProPublica investigation into inadequate mental health care. Over the course of three days, two veterans who’d been unable to get consistent treatment at the facility fatally shot their mothers.

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806 stories published since 2008

Michigan Lawmaker Introduces Bill Requiring State Health Plans to Cover Cutting-Edge Cancer Treatments

Lawmakers Could Limit When County Officials in Mississippi Can Jail People Awaiting Psychiatric Treatment

Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can’t Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

Severe Complications for Pregnant Veterans Nearly Doubled in the Last Decade, a GAO Report Finds

After Promising to Make Government Health Care Data More Accessible, the Biden Administration Now Wants to Clamp Down

The Year After a Denied Abortion

In Crisis, She Went to an Illinois Facility. Two Years Later, She Still Isn’t Able to Leave.

How to Participate in ProPublica’s Stillbirths Memorial

A Memorial for the Children Lost to Stillbirth

Veterans Affairs Secretary Vows to Increase Staffing at Clinic Tied to Two Deadly Shootings

Medicare Certifies Hospices in California Despite State Ban on New Licenses

How Patients and Doctors Are Navigating the Fallout of the Massive Recall of Philips Breathing Machines

Congressional Watchdog Will Launch Inquiry Into FDA Oversight of Medical Device Recalls

5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into How Mississippi Counties Jail People for Mental Illness

How Many of Your State’s Lawmakers Are Women? If You Live in the Southeast, It Could Be Just 1 in 5.

As the U.S. Struggles With a Stillbirth Crisis, Australia Offers a Model for How to Do Better

Health Plans Can’t Dodge Paying for Expensive New Cancer Treatments, Says Michigan’s Top Insurance Regulator

How the VA Fails Veterans on Mental Health

Three Days of Tragedy: How a VA Clinic’s Inability to Help Veterans in Crisis Destroyed Two Families

ProPublica Adds Ownership Information to Our Nursing Home Database

“With Every Breath” Captures the Human Toll of Philips’ Failure to Disclose Dangerous Defects of Its CPAP Devices

¿Preocupada por su visita al ginecobstetra? Una guía sobre lo que debería suceder —y lo que no debería suceder.

Mujeres de Utah intentaron denunciar agresiones sexuales a la policía. Dicen que enfrentaron retrasos y barreras lingüísticas.

Utah Women Tried to Report Sexual Assaults to Police. They Say They Faced Delays and Language Barriers.

Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Work for Insurers, Deciding If They’ll Pay for Care

Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice

Representatives Propose Ban on Insurers Charging Doctors a Fee to Be Paid Electronically

This Researcher Warned of Unnecessary, Risky Vascular Procedures. She Was Called a “Nazi” and Accused of “Fratricide.”

How ProPublica and CareSet Investigated the Overuse of Vascular Procedures

Thousands of Patients May Be Undergoing Vascular Procedures Too Soon or Unnecessarily

Millions of People Used Tainted Breathing Machines. The FDA Failed to Use Its Power to Protect Them.

Emails Reveal How a Hospital Bowed to Political Pressure to Stop Treating Trans Teens

Some Republicans Were Willing to Compromise on Abortion Ban Exceptions. Activists Made Sure They Didn’t.

Health Insurers Have Been Breaking State Laws for Years

Insurance Executives Refused to Pay for the Cancer Treatment That Could Have Saved Him. This Is How They Did It.

Mississippi Jailed More Than 800 People Awaiting Psychiatric Treatment in a Year. Just One Jail Meets State Standards.

Maine Rarely Sanctions Residential Care Facilities Even After Severe Abuse or Neglect Incidents

You Have a Right to Know Why a Health Insurer Denied Your Claim. Some Insurers Still Won’t Tell You.

Find Out Why Your Health Insurer Denied Your Claim

Voters in at Least 10 States Are Trying to Protect Abortion Rights. GOP Officials Are Throwing Up Roadblocks.

Ella confió en su primer ginecobstetra porque hablaba español. Ahora es una de las 94 mujeres que lo demandan por agresión sexual.

She Trusted Her First OB-GYN Because He Spoke Spanish. Now She’s 1 of 94 Women Suing Him for Sexual Assault.

A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder

Senator Calls for DOJ Action Against Philips for Keeping CPAP Machine Complaints Secret

Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.

ProPublica and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Have Sued the FDA for Records Related to Recalled Breathing Machines

What You Need to Know About the Philips Respironics CPAP Recall

We Spent a Year Investigating the Philips CPAP Recall. Here’s How We Did It.

Help ProPublica and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Investigate the Recall of Philips Respironics Breathing Machines

Philips Kept Complaints About Dangerous Breathing Machines Secret While Company Profits Soared