Around the world, a new strain of Covid-19 is causing painful sore throats. In just a couple of...
Health and financial security
Who believes that insurers will voluntarily improve the prior...
Reed Abelson reports for The New York Times on health insurers’ voluntary pledge to improve...
Senate Republicans on Finance Committee pass even deadlier...
As I’ve written, the House Republicans passed a reconciliation bill which, among other things...
Proposed Medicaid cuts imperil access to hospital care for all...
Hundreds of hospitals have negative operating margins and will not survive Republicans’...
The Senate reconciliation bill likely won’t target waste...
The Senate is now considering the House reconciliation bill, and it’s still anyone’s guess...
House budget bill would result in 51,000 preventable deaths each...
A new paper out of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania finds that Medicaid and other health...
$35,119: The average cost of a family’s health care
The cost of health care in the US continues to rise at a rate far faster than inflation. The...
Wait times to see doctors are getting longer
For a long while in the US, Americans have been forced to wait to see a doctor, and the wait times...
Republican lawmakers undermining citizen-led policy initiatives
Jeremy Kohler reports for Pro Publica on efforts by Republican policymakers in Republican states to...
Many middle and high-school students are at-home caregivers
At least 5.4 million young Americans are caring for their older parents and grandparents, reports...