Will Swedish limit choices for women and the dying under Providence deal?
A coalition of advocacy groups is raising questions about whether the newly proposed affiliation of Swedish Health Services and Catholic-based Providence Health & Services will lead Swedish...
View ArticleSwedish-Providence questions remain after Planned Parenthood move
Editor’s note: This is an updated version of a story that Crosscut first reported Wednesday, Oct. 12, on questions about reproductive and other services at Swedish Health Services’ facilities. Swedish...
View ArticleHow the state might spare public, businesses the initiative confusion
In ordinary life, people generally avoid spending lots of time and money preparing for a big change they know may not occur. But when it comes to ballot initiatives approved by Washington voters, they...
View ArticleInsurance spat leads to less Rx coverage for some
A fight between the Washington state insurance commissioner and the state’s largest seller of individual health insurance is spotlighting problems in that increasingly troubled market. The spat arose...
View ArticleMedical care in Spokane faces future boldly
In an unusual partnership, a nonprofit health plan that employs its own doctors is joining with a major Catholic hospital system in the Pacific Northwest to provide more efficient health care services...
View ArticleA historic new trail for Washington hikers
Few trails in the country offer greater biological and climate diversity over a relatively short distance, ranging from arid, wildflower-studded shrub steppe to alpine meadow to rain forest. At times...
View ArticleMcKenna vs. Inslee: A debate with a few twists
There’s no question Republican Rob McKenna was more focused and aggressive than Democrat Jay Inslee in their third gubernatorial debate, which took place Tuesday night in Yakima. But McKenna made at...
View ArticleCutting high-risk patient costs with . . . more care?
After moving to her daughter’s home in 2009 to escape an alcoholic, abusive boyfriend, Darlene Clark of Seattle desperately needed help finding permanent housing. Clark, a Medicaid beneficiary, found...
View ArticleCrosscut Investigation: Prosecutors, debt collectors buddy-up to punish bad...
A month-long Crosscut investigation into questionable tactics by check collection companies reveals that criminal prosecutors around the Northwest are contracting with private companies, which use...
View ArticleStates examine bounced-check enforcement practices
The Oregon Senate has passed a bill to prohibit county district attorneys from letting private check collection companies use their names and official seals to threaten alleged bad check writers with...
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