In a June 28, 2022 US House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing...
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Cancer patients face particularly severe medical debt
Noam Levey reports for Kaiser Health News on the particularly severe medical debt people with...
Primary care through CVS? Financial incentives pose a serious...
Lucia Ryll shares her opinion in MedPage Today on the risks posed by CVS’ latest move into...
Medicare seeks to stop disclosing hospital safety information
It’s bad enough that hospitals can be dangerous places, yet most people check in to a...
Coronavirus: Biden administration fails to disclose hospital bad...
The HHS Office of the Inspector General recently reported widespread and persistent denials of care...
Pharmaceutical companies put low-income patients at risk
If you have been reading Just Care, you likely already know that Medicare only covers about half of...
Whistleblower says CVS won’t cover some low-cost generics
Ed Silverman reports for Stat News on a whistleblower lawsuit against CVS. The lawsuit alleges that...
Hospitals still not disclosing their prices, violating the law
Since January 2021, hospitals have been required to post their prices. While this recent legal...
Supreme Court defers to Biden administration on Medicare...
John Aloysius Cogan, Jr. writes for Scotus blog on a new Supreme Court decision that defers to the...
Should you be worried about monkeypox?
There are a lot of reasons you should not be worried about monkeypox. But, it is still in its early...