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Listen to ‘Tradeoffs’: Medical Debt Delivers ‘A Shocking Amount of Misery’
The numbers that tell the story of medical debt in the U.S. are staggering: Around 100 million Americans have health care debt, and together they...
Watch: Emergency Room Turns Simple Injury Into a Big Bill
Leigh Fava wound up in the emergency room after injuring her thumb at her New Orleans home. She said she received a tetanus shot and a badly...
Seniors With Anxiety Frequently Don’t Get Help. Here’s Why.
Anxiety is the most common psychological disorder affecting adults in the U.S. In older people, it’s associated with considerable distress as well...
Information Blackout Shrouds New Reports of Deaths, Injuries, and Abuse at Montana State Hospital
BUTTE, Mont. — Jennifer Mitchell remembered getting a call nearly two years ago that her 69-year-old husband, Bill, had crashed his car and had...
Shaved Costs, High Risk, Maximum Profits: Regulators Worry About Florida’s Butt Lift Boom
MIAMI — In hindsight, Nikki Ruston said, she should have recognized the red flags. The office in Miami where she scheduled what’s known as a...
A Bitter Battle Over the ‘Orphan Drug’ Program Leaves Patients’ Pocketbooks at Risk
A prescription drug that helps Lore Wilkinson walk and talk despite a rare muscle disease cost her so little for more than a decade that she...
True ROI: The Taking of National Medical Enterprises Inc. (NME)
"After 11 months of largely sitting alone in his room undergoing what the hospital called "Chair Therapy" (sit and think about your life) he left...
Congress Told HHS to Set Up a Health Data Network in 2006. The Agency Still Hasn’t.
In early 2020, as they tried to fight covid-19 across two rural counties in North Carolina, the staff of Granville Vance Public...
Nursing Home Owners Drained Cash During Pandemic While Residents Deteriorated
After the nursing home where Leann Sample worked was bought by private investors, it started falling apart. Literally. Part of a ceiling collapsed...
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