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Pharma Campaign Cash Delivered to Key Lawmakers With Surgical Precision
The Biden administration and Congress are embroiled in high-stakes haggling over what urgent priorities will make it…
Medicare Plans’ ‘Free’ Dental, Vision, Hearing Benefits Come at a Cost
When Teresa Nolan Barensfeld turned 65 last year, she quickly decided on a private Medicare Advantage plan to cover her…
How Billing Turns a Routine Birth Into a High-Cost Emergency
Caitlin Wells Salerno knew that some mammals — like the golden-mantled ground squirrels she studies in the Rocky…
Analysis: A Procedure That Cost $1,775 in New York Was $350 in Maryland.…
For the past 18 months, while I was undergoing intensive physical therapy and many neurological tests after a…
Understaffed State Psychiatric Facilities Leave Mental Health Patients in…
Andy Miller
Many patients dealing with mental health crises are having to wait several days in an ER until a bed becomes…
Direct Primary Care, With a Touch of Robin Hood
MODESTO, Calif. — Britta Foster and Minerva Tiznado are in different leagues as far as health care is concerned.…
In Maine, Vaccine Mandate for EMTs Stresses Small-Town Ambulance Crews
On a recent morning, Jerrad Dinsmore and Kevin LeCaptain of Waldoboro EMS in rural Maine drove their ambulance to…
3 States Limit Nursing Home Profits in Bid to Improve Care
Susan Jaffe
Nursing homes receive billions of taxpayers’ dollars every year to care for chronically ill frail elders, but until…
Meet the New Bosses Fighting CovidKaiser Health News
VIRGINIA CITY, Mont. — Emilie Sayler’s roots run deep in southwestern Montana. She serves on a nearby town council and…
Edmund Ghareeb on the Arab Language Press in US
This week’s solid chronicle. Host Carol Castiel speaks with Middle East historian and scholar, Edmund Ghareeb. about the many…