Until Congress steps in to regulate our health care system effectively, it appears that...
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Small non-profit helps lower price of some ineffective drugs
Caroline Humer reports for Reuters on the value of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review...
Government pays Medicare Advantage plans billions extra for...
The HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released yet another scathing report on Medicare...
President Trump’s executive order won’t lower drug...
President Trump finally issued his fourth prescription drug executive order, related to pricing...
Hospital care: Three major inequities
A post in Medicine and Social Justice by Josh Freeman, MD, Chair of the Department of Family...
Can public health insurance lower health care costs?
With millions of Americans staying away from the doctor and hospital during this pandemic, the...
Coronavirus: Will your mail-order drugs arrive on time?
The Trump administration made changes to the US Postal Service in July that could determine whether...
Coronavirus: What happened at a nursing home in Washington
Katie Engelhart reports for California Sunday on what happened at Life Care Center of Kirkland, the...
SSA actuary confirms Trump’s plan to terminate Social...
A couple of weeks ago, President Trump said that if he was reelected that he would end payroll...
Coronavirus: Hospitals sue patients to collect payment
It’s bad enough that tens of thousands of Americans have become gravely ill as a result of...