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With Congress set to debate “Medicare-for-all,” Tarbell examines efforts by health insurers to take over past health care reforms.
A cheaper premium or no premium sounds good when you’re well, but what happens when you’re sick?
“They don’t even know who the candidates are that they vote for, and even if they don’t just vote party line, they don’t know that the Republicans want to cut Medicaid.”
Let us see if the Devos family has the heart to chip in on a woman’s transplant.
Tarbell Founder Wendell Potter explains why the 2018 midterm elections point to a renewed need for investigative and solutions journalism.
In the 1960s, with no funding for long-term, chronic dialysis, hospital committees decided who would live and die. It was the federal government that put an end to this practice.
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Many Medicare Advantage plans have small networks and high deductibles. If you go out of network, even unknowingly, you will be on the hook for a lot of money out of your own pocket.
You have no guarantee that the doctors and hospitals that the insurance companies say are in your network will still be there in the future. And you, not the insurer, get stuck with the bill.
“Even I was dismayed when I learned I’d have to go into an NHS hospital.”
The new Martin Shkreli is Nostrum Laboratories’ Nirmal Mulye – who raised the price of a bladder infection antibiotic from $475 a bottle to nearly $2,400 a bottle.
“You can’t see everybody. That’s unfortunately the reality.”
America’s biggest corporations—prescription drug distributors in particular—are profiting off the growing opioid epidemic.
AmerisourceBergen has made billions of dollars overselling opioids. Now, to protect profits, it’s waging a PR campaign to make you forget that.
“Since the tax went into effect in 2014, data from several studies have exceeded the expectations of even its advocates.”
Amidst calls for a rejection of President Donald Trump’s attacks on journalists, we reflect on the attacks faced decades ago by reporters like Ida Tarbell.
Tarbell found handsome contributions to DCCC leaders align with the group avoiding endorsements of candidates who back “Medicare for all.”
Which one will be first?
The “fear, uncertainty and doubt” campaign against “Medicare for all” is on.
Insurance company CEOs and their shareholders, thats who.
Studies show life expectancy in the United States is going down while it continues to go up in other developed countries.
Donna Smith, a major force behind expanding the U.S. health care system, is hanging up her hat.
I’ve been asked many times if there was one thing, one moment, that led me to leave my job at a big health insurance corporation. Yes, there was, and it occurred five days before Christmas in 2007.