On July 30, Medicare turned 55. Notwithstanding myriad attempts by conservatives to destroy it...
Health and financial security
Coronavirus: Republican stimulus bill opens the door to Social...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is responding to the coronavirus pandemic with the...
Coronavirus: Female leaders are far better at containing COVID-19
Thomas Deane reports for MedicalXpress that countries with female leaders tend to be healthier and...
Coronavirus: President Trump’s immigration policy leaves...
President Donald Trump’s recent change to US immigration policy is leaving many hospitals...
Coronavirus: Blame corporate health insurers for our failure to...
Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive at Cigna, knows first-hand how poorly corporate...
Big non-profit hospitals put revenue ahead of social mission
Philip Longman and Udit Thakur write for The Washington Monthly about non-profit hospitals that put...
Coronavirus: Older workers might be forced to retire early
Older adults working in jobs that put them in close contact with others might be forced to retire...
Private equity succeeding at keeping Congress from ending...
People with Medicare are among the only Americans with health insurance who are spared surprise...
Blame Donald Trump for the nursing home Covid-19 crisis
The very first COVID-19 outbreak in the US took place in a Kirkland, Washington nursing home more...
Artificial intelligence machines can prompt physicians to...
StatNews reports on how artificial intelligence machines are prompting physicians to discuss...