More states try to give patients relief from medical debt
Many Americans are struggling to afford healthcare. A recent survey found that 46% of adults, regardless of their health care insurance status, reported struggling to pay for medical care last year…Under Washington’s new law, unpaid medical bills can’t be assigned to a debt collector for at least 120 days after the first billing statement in situations where the patient is a pedestrian or bicyclist who has been struck by a motor vehicle. Continue reading at Washington State Standard. (Whitney Downard)
After damning audit, officials yank most funding from King County Regional Homelessness Authority
Seattle and King County officials announced Wednesday they intend to downsize the scope and responsibilities of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. The five-year-old agency has faced heavy scrutiny following a damning financial audit. Officials said the agency’s response has been “insufficient” to correct the recent findings of mismanagement. Continue reading at KUOW. (Lindsey Wasson)
Pioneer Square is booming during World Cup. Seattle’s CID, not so much. Advocates demand city help
Business owners in south Seattle say the lack of World Cup impact, or the negative impact, is part of an ongoing trend — a major event comes to Seattle, but the CID doesn’t reap any benefits, oftentimes being worse off. It’s a hard pill to swallow for those who live and work in a neighborhood that is bearing the brunt of problems not of its own making: historically harmed by a highway cutting through it and more recently, becoming a hot spot where people dealing with addiction openly use drugs and the crime that often arises as part of drug addiction and use. Continue reading at KUOW. (Juan Pablo Chiquiza)
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