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The Ambulance Chased One Patient Into Collections
In retrospect, Peggy Dula said, she shouldn’t have taken the ambulance. She was the least injured of the three siblings who were in a car when it was struck by a pickup truck last September. Her daughter had even offered to come…
Listen: Can California Lower the Price of Insulin?
California Healthline senior correspondent Angela Hart appeared on KCRW’s “Press Play With Madeleine Brand” and KJZZ, a public radio station in Phoenix, this month to discuss California’s plan to reduce the cost of some prescription…
‘American Diagnosis’: Two Indigenous Students Share Their Path to Medicine
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Episode 9: “Two Paths, Two Future Physicians”…
Even Well-Intended Laws Can’t Protect Us From Inaccurate Provider Directories
Bernard J. Wolfson
If you have medical insurance, chances are you’ve been utterly exasperated at some point while trying to find an available doctor or mental health practitioner in your health plan’s network.
It goes like…
Ad Targeting Manchin and AARP Mischaracterizes Medicare Drug-Price Negotiations
Victoria Knight and Colleen DeGuzman
Sen. Joe Manchin and AARP “support government price-setting schemes” to divert money from Medicare to “unrelated government programs or pad big insurers’ profits.”
Ad by American Commitment,…
‘True Cost of Aging’ Index Shows Many Seniors Can’t Afford Basic Necessities
Fran Seeley, 81, doesn’t see herself as living on the edge of a financial crisis. But she’s uncomfortably close.
Each month, Seeley, a retired teacher, gets $925 from Social Security and a $287 disbursement from an individual…
Post-‘Roe,’ People Are Seeking Permanent Sterilizations, and Some Are Being Turned Away
HELENA, Mont. — A handful of people recently gathered in the shade of a large pine tree for a going-away party of sorts. Their friend, Dani Marietti, was going to have her fallopian tubes removed, a decision she made after a…
Journalists Reexamine Mental Health Barriers, Gun Control Laws, and Homelessness
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Three Things About the Abortion Debate That Many People Get Wrong
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the federal right to abortion, things are more than a little confused.
As lower courts grapple with rapidly changing state laws, patients wonder from day to day if…
A Nearly Century-Old Maternity Home for Teens in the South Makes Plans for Expansion
Lauren Sausser
CHARLESTON, S.C. — An old, brick house in Charleston’s Wagener Terrace district stands out from its gentrified neighbors in several ways: It’s 14,000 square feet, built to accommodate around 30 people, and was constructed…