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Bram Sable-Smith

Bram Sable-Smith is a reporter for Wisconsin Public Radio

Abortion State Courts (Illustration by Oona Zenda/KFF Health News)

Voters backed abortion rights but state judges have final say

Bram Sable-Smith, Katheryn Houghton
Ballooning Abortions (Illustration by Oona Zenda / Courtesy of KFF Health News)

Abortion clinics — and patients — are on the move, as state laws keep shifting

Bram Sable-Smith
A protester holds a placard with the colours of the trans pride flag in support of a trans rights during the demonstration. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Medical exiles: families flee states amid crackdown on transgender care

Bram Sable-Smith, Daniel Chang, Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, Sandy West
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When malpractice occurs at community health centers, taxpayers pay

Phil Galewitz, Bram Sable-Smith
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

A billing expert saved big after finding an incorrect charge in her husband’s ER bill

Bram Sable-Smith
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

Faxes and snail mail: Will pandemic-era flaws unleash improved health technology?

Bram Sable-Smith
EMTs rush a patient to the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on March 24, 2020, as the number of confirmed Massachusetts cases of coronavirus soars to near 5,000. (Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Bounties and bonuses leave small hospitals behind in staffing wars

Bram Sable-Smith
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Hospitals continue to sue patients as the coronavirus spreads

Bram Sable-Smith