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My Search for a Psychiatric Bed in an Overburdened Health System

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By Helen Santoro Verified, Oona Zenda
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If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” Eight days before my 33rd birthday in April, a social worker at a crisis clinic near Denver determined I was an imminent danger to myself. She placed me on an involuntary 72-hour mental health hold. What came next wasn’t treatment, but a search for a bed.
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By Helen Santoro Verified, Rae Ellen Bichell Verified, Oona Zenda
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The codes used by U.S. medical providers to bill insurers haven’t caught up to the needs of trans patients or even international standards. Consequently, doctors are forced to get creative with what codes they use, or patients spend hours fighting big out-of-pocket bills.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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ACA Insurers Propose Yet Another Double-Digit Rate Increase For 2027 Millions of people who participate in the Affordable Care Act marketplace are facing back-to-back years of rate increases, plus the loss of federal enhanced subsidies that made coverage more affordable. Health insurers cited the rising costs of health care and the Trump administration's changes to marketplace rules among the reasons for a rate spike.
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15% Of US Adults Have Used GLP-1s For Weight Loss, Poll Finds

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15% Of US Adults Have Used GLP-1s For Weight Loss, Poll Finds According to a Gallup poll, 11% of adults are currently taking weight loss drugs, which is up from 3% in 2024, The Washington Post reported. Also in the news, a new kidney disease treatment, a Shigella vaccine, glucose monitors for kids, and more. The number of people injecting themselves with or taking an oral version of the new class of weight-loss drugs continues to rise dramatically.
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Appeals Court Blocks Part Of Florida Law That Restricts Teaching Of Race, Gender In College

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The law limits teaching on race, gender and other topics. Part of the law related to colleges was struck down. It remains in effect in K-12 schools. (Patel, 7/7) More health news from across the U.S. — Faced with an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the Mamdani administration said on Tuesday that it was adopting new tactics to try to stamp out clusters of the bacterial illness more quickly. ...
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Healthcare Workers At Ebola Epicenter Walk Off Job Over Unpaid Wages, Safety Concerns

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The healthcare workers at the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreak are walking off their jobs to protest delays in their payments, threatening efforts to slow the outbreak that officials said continues to spread faster than the response.
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A Fourth Infant Has Botulism In Outbreak Linked To Powdered Formula

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said there are now four cases of infant botulism illnesses from three states, up from three last month. The new case is in California. California now has two cases, while Pennsylvania and Washington state each have one. (Soucheray, 7/7) Doctors described treating brain and abdominal hemorrhages in infants who hadn’t received the routine injection.
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HHS Pressures Hospitals To Provide Healthier Food

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Trump administration health officials today are launching an effort to encourage hospitals to serve inpatient meals that more closely align with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, Axios has learned. (Bettelheim and Reed, 7/8) Those disclaimers in TV drug ads could get longer if the Trump administration makes good on plans to require all safety risks to be disclosed in the ads instead of referring consumers to another source.
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ACA Insurers Propose Yet Another Double-Digit Rate Increase For 2027

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Rates for many Affordable Care Act plans rose by double digits this year. Insurers want to do the same next year. Some of the biggest Obamacare companies are seeking hefty premium increases for 2027, often for the second year in a row. In Washington state, Centene is asking for a 28% hike, after boosting rates by 35% in 2026. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois wants 15%—on top of a 28% increase this year.
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Affordable Care Act Insurers Want More Premium Increases as Enrollment Sags

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By Rachel Spears
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For the second year in a row, many Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing double-digit premium increases, driven by rising medical costs as well as policy changes by Congress and the Trump administration. In preliminary filings with state regulators, insurers are seeking a median rate increase of 14% for 2027, according to an analysis of filings in 16 states and the District of Columbia by the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker.
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