Help keep Salon independent

Fred Clasen-Kelly

Morris Brown, a primary care physician, says that South Carolina lawmakers’ refusal to expand Medicaid will result in preventable deaths because many people who live near his medical offices in Kingstree and Lake City cannot afford to go to a doctor. (Gavin McIntyre for KFF Health News)

Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress

Fred Clasen-Kelly, Renuka Rayasam
Child Mind Institute Convenes Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on World Mental Health Day for Youth Panel on October 10, 2023 in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

US Surgeon General declares gun violence “a public health crisis”

Rachana Pradhan, Fred Clasen-Kelly
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Her apartment might have put her son’s health at risk. But ‘I have nowhere else to go’

Renuka Rayasam, Fred Clasen-Kelly
A homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic ( Araya Diaz/Getty Images)

A disability program promised to lift people from poverty. Instead, it left many homeless

Fred Clasen-Kelly