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FAQs - Health care
What is telehealth?
FAQs - Health care
Is telehealth good health care?
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Health care
How to tell if your telehealth provider is protecting your privacy
Telehealth providers have to abide by HIPAA just like in-person providers
FAQs - Health care
What kinds of sexual and reproductive health care services can you get via telehealth?
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Health care
How much does telehealth cost with and without insurance?
Many insurance plans cover telehealth, and lots of telehealth options are affordable without insurance
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Health care
What telehealth is (and isn’t) and why you should use it to get your birth control
Skip the stress, get your BC delivered
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Health care
How to tell when it’s time to switch providers
Going to the doctor shouldn’t make you feel powerless or violated
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Health care
My doctor almost sterilized me without telling me
How bias can compromise our health care
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I experienced racial bias in my postpartum care
It matters how providers talk to women of color about birth control
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Health care
Racism in family planning care
Here’s what we can all do to break the cycle
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Can you get quality health care as a Black, disabled person?
Spoiler alert: yes, you can, but it’s really, really hard
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Health care
The art of being a difficult (aka empowered) patient
How to practice medical self-advocacy to get the care you need
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