Julie Appleby reports for Kaiser Health News that, down the road, a lot of hospital care may be...
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AbbVie gets a scolding from Congress but can keep raising prices
Richard Gonzalez, AbbVie’s CEO, has been hard at work raising the price of its best-selling...
Warning: Some cell phones can cause implanted medical devices to...
If you are among the millions of Americans with a pacemaker or defibrillator, you’d best keep...
Air pollution and your mental health
Nicholas Bakalar writes for the New York Times on a new study that finds a link between the air you...
Coronavirus: Hospitals sue patients and profit handsomely
I wish I could say that the COVID-19 pandemic has motivated Congress to take on high health care...
Insurers profit from Rx rebates, not patients
A new study published in JAMA Network finds that when pharmaceutical companies raise the wholesale...
$150,000: Your health care costs in retirement
With COVID-19, people are retiring a bit earlier than in the past several years and more than one...
Rx lessons for Congress
Our representatives in the House and Senate are once again considering how to ensure that Americans...
GAO finds US drug prices more than four times those in France
The US Government Accountability Office just released a new report at the behest of Senator Bernie...
How GoodRx profits by lowering people’s drug costs
As most people taking prescription drugs know, even with insurance coverage, out-of-pocket costs...