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The Signal
The Labora Collective · A Diosa Ara Initiative
The Economic Body
The Signal · Jul 22, 2026 · Weekly clinical intelligence
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The Economic Body · Installment 2
ACA Subsidies Expired
The enhanced subsidies expired. The plans did not get cheaper.
Dr. Yamicia Connor, MD, PhD, MPH · The Labora Signal
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Let me tell you about the patient who did everything right.
She is thirty-one, a freelance graphic designer with no employer to hand her an insurance card, so she went out and bought her own coverage on the marketplace — exactly the way we told her to. For four years it worked: a plan that, because of the Affordable Care Act, could not turn her away, could not charge her more for the cesarean on her chart, could not call a past pregnancy a “pre-existing condition.” Maternity care was covered. Her birth control cost her nothing. On paper and in fact, she was safe.
Then, in January, she opened her renewal notice and the number had doubled. It happened to millions of women in the same few weeks — and almost none of them saw it coming…
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The enhanced subsidies expired. The plans did not get cheaper — only the help did.
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The Long War · No. 2
The Midwife Purge (1900–1930)
How a generation of Black and immigrant midwives was regulated out of existence — and how that purge still shapes who attends a birth today. Read → |
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The Economic Body · Signal — Part 1
Missed Part 1? The Destruction of the Black Middle Class
Why income does not protect Black mothers — and how the unwinding of Black middle-class wealth reaches the delivery room. Read → |
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