Paul Cuno-Booth
Health & Equity ReporterI report on health and equity for NHPR. My work focuses on questions about who is able to access health care in New Hampshire, who is left out, and how that affects their health and well-being. I want to understand the barriers that make it hard for people to get care – including financial barriers – and what people in power are or aren’t doing to make things better.
Paul can be reached at pcuno-booth@nhpr.org.
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Thursday was a busy day at the State House, with both chambers in session. Here’s what else happened. -
Puberty blockers, hormone treatments and gender-affirming chest surgeries would be banned before age 18 under the bills, which now head back to the House for final approval. -
The requirement for six months’ notice comes after the hospital abruptly ended several services last year, catching patients off guard. -
Lawyers for a former prison guard want to ask Helen Hanks about her department’s belated disclosure of evidence, as well as handwritten notes she shredded. Hanks says it was routine practice to destroy those notes after she was done with them. -
Republicans in Congress want to require proof of work for Medicaid recipients as part of a massive budget bill favored by President Trump. -
The dispute over the Medicaid Enhancement Tax had threatened hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the safety-net insurance program. -
“We shouldn't have to live in an urban area to receive the highest level of evidence-based care,” says one healthcare worker involved in the project. -
Doctors, nurses and other health experts say that falling vaccination rates – and clusters of undervaccinated students in some communities – could leave the state more vulnerable. -
The money at issue comes from legal settlements with companies accused of fueling the opioid crisis. -
Hospitals and state officials have been at odds since last year over the Medicaid Enhancement Tax, with hundreds of millions of dollars in health care funding at stake
