Elderly Black Man Released from Hospital Found on Sidewalk After Medicare Stopped Paying for Care

A unidentified Black man was found on a sidewalk in Conyers, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, with medical tubes attached after being released from a hospital nearby after Medicare wouldn’t continue paying for his treatment according to Atlanta Black Star. The 68-year-old man was found collapsed near the Piedmont Rockdale Hospital on Oct. 14. According […]

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Who Helped Implement Obamacare, Becomes First Black Woman To Lead Medicare Agency

The U.S. Senate confirmed Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last week, making her the first Black woman to lead the agency in its near sixty-year history. Brooks-LaSure, a former policy official who played a vital role in the implementation of Obamacare, will oversee such initiatives as Medicare, Medicaid, […]