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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 company say are in your network will still be there in the future. And you, not the insurer, get stuck with a the big 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 playing in our 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.
“We need to give the criminal purveyors of these products no quarter,” Scott Gottlieb, FDA Commissioner, said.
As the support for a single-payer, “Medicare-for-All” health care system in U.S. grows, so do the contributions from the health insurance industry.
Two things you can do, and three ways government might help to survive the next economic slump.
What Americans earn and save and how much they’re in debt varies wildly, but where you live — and the overall health of the economy there — could be a factor in how the next recession impacts you. Check our map to see how your home state is doing.
What we found: Banks are using their influence on Congress to lighten their paperwork, but some of that paperwork was helping to protect America’s economy.
What you can do: Follow Tarbell to track the risks of easing rules for financial institutions—and prepare for the next recession.
A Tarbell story has led to a call for a Department of Justice investigation by a top Florida lawmaker.
Unable to afford U.S. drug prices, patients have long filled their prescriptions by ordering cheaper drugs from overseas. Now, the Food and Drug Administration is dramatically increasing how many of those shipments are stopped at the border.