Alzheimer’s drugs are often costly and they do not offer a cure. But patients and family members who want to slow a debilitating disease often pay the high prices, even if their insurance doesn’t cover it.
Month: October 2013
In the event of a health emergency, Jorge Luis Castillo will soon have a nail-biting choice: Go to the hospital in town and face shouldering as much as 20 percent of the costs, up to several thousand dollars, or spend about an hour in the car to get to a hospital that’s fully covered by his insurance.
Family nurse practitioner Myra Howard runs the Buellton Medical Center in Buellton, California. She’s also the majority shareholder in the clinic. But the law still requires that her practice is supervised by a physician.
Erik Sternad goes into work every morning with the weight of 7,478 people on his shoulders.
That’s the number of domestic violence calls police in Ventura County received last year.
“Sometimes they come in whatever they were wearing in the middle of the night when the violence erupted and the police came to their house.”
While Denti-Cal reinstatement is good news for patients, community clinics and federally funded health centers, there is a long road to restoring dental care to low-income people.