Listened to first four episdoes of this on a drive and it is *fantastic*. Cannot recommend highly enough. Absolutely gripping and sheds light on a million differnet modern political and policy issues.

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March 2001: The late Grant Wahl did a delightful piece on Bill Walton and family. Captures both men's joy. Grant tagged the piece w/this green light text back from BW: 'Come on, we're on tour, get on the bus before it fills up!'

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After surviving a brutal knife attack damaging his eyes, hands, chest, and mouth, Salman Rushdie gets a surprise $18,000 medical bill for a mouth prosthesis.

Led by California, a few states are testing an experimental program that pays people to stop using hard drugs.

Angela Hart explains what you need to know in today's The Washington Post & KFF Health News #HealthBrief . ⬇️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/h…

NEW: Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has issued cease and desist letters to two clinics offering abortion pills, including Aid Access — threatening a lawsuit and $10k in fines if they don’t stop advertising to pregnant women in the state.

they also have an ID theft insurer on their jersey, so they truly provide the full package: your insurer, and the insurance for your insurer's hack.

I always enjoy how the different language versions of Wikipedia give different victors for major historical battles.
The Spanish Armada,
In English - English and Dutch won.
In French - Inconclusive.
In Spanish - Inconclusive.
In Dutch - Spanish lost.

NEW: An Indiana company that made the controversial AGGA dental device did not investigate multiple complaints alleging the device was harming patients.

Brett Kelman of KFF Health News & AnnaWernerCBS of CBS News report. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/f…

American girl out here with a 1999 doll, we’re so washed

— Chip Kelly (2013)

And many of these states already have MD shortages kffhealthnews.org/news/article/m…

NEW: Some of the two dozen people shot at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade still carry bullets from that day in their bodies.

Bram Sable-Smith and PeggyLowe spoke to three of them who are coping very differently.
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We're thrilled to be a 2024 finalist for the #Pulitzer Prize in Public Service, for our joint investigation with Cox Media Group on Social Security overpayments: pulitzer.org/finalists/kff-…

Congrats to David Hilzenrath, Jodie Fleischer and everyone involved.

Why my annoyance at instruction manuals is more than an old man yelling at cloud — it’s a public health problem: npr.org/sections/healt…

Me vs. my unrequited grudge: instructional manuals at NPR with KFF Health News

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There’s no bigger health care company than UnitedHealth Group. It’s grown to be the nation’s largest insurer — and largest employer of physicians. It’s bigger than Google and Microsoft.

Now some lawmakers want to chop it down.

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CHALLENGERS's commitment to plausibility is mostly strong, except for its insistence that somehow a mentally fragile American could take six grand slams in the era of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal!?!?

Longtime Soon-Shiong watchers may remember the drug company here, formerly called NantKwest, and some of its various adventures in conflict-of-interest, such as: politico.com/story/2017/11/…

don van natta on david tepper when