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August 4, 2021
Matt Ford
No, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Your Vaccination Status Is Not Protected by HIPAA
How Covid vaccine skeptics came to embrace an apocryphal reading of a 1996 law.
July 27, 2021
Natalie Shure
We’ll Never Fix Hospitals’ Price Gouging If We Don’t Break Their Stranglehold on Congress
Rather than force hospitals to be up front with patients about their costs, we should strip them of the power to set them.
July 21, 2021
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The Politics of Everything
More Reasons to Hate the Dentist
Is the field of dentistry rife with overtreatment?
July 19, 2021
Natalie Shure
Buying Drugs From Canada Won’t Solve America’s Obscene Health Care Costs
Proposals to lower drug prices through importation are wildly popular but also completely inadequate.
July 6, 2021
Natalie Shure
Walmart’s Play for the Insulin Market Is the Latest Crack in Our Broken Health Care System
The big-box retailer has found a way to monetize the nation’s desperation.
June 28, 2021
Natalie Shure
The Success of Medicaid Expansion Could Break It
The program is providing life-saving coverage to nearly a quarter of all Americans, but it’s not sustainable.
June 17, 2021
Matt Ford
Is the Supreme Court Finally Done Saving Obamacare?
For opponents of the Affordable Care Act, this latest slapdash effort to gut the landmark law may be the last hurrah.
June 17, 2021
Monica Potts
Why Don’t We Pay Family Caregivers What They’re Owed?
Millions of people in the United States provide essential care for children, aging parents, or loved ones with disabilities. It shouldn’t be this hard to make it work.
June 14, 2021
Natalie Shure
The Sleazy Story of How Biogen’s New Alzheimer’s Snake Oil Got Approved
The FDA should be our toughest regulatory body, but the pharmaceutical lobby has torn it to shreds.
June 7, 2021
Natalie Shure
Many More Americans Would Be Vaccinated if Our Health Care System Wasn’t So Terrifying
People don’t trust an industry known for bureaucratic traps and surprise billing to save them from the pandemic.
May 28, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Amazon Wants to Eat Health Care Next
The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to mine patient data. The goal is not to fix a broken system but to exploit it.
May 24, 2021
Natalie Shure
Israel’s Never-Ending War Against Palestinian Health
Between all the headline-rattling periods of military violence, Israel’s policies toward Gaza keep its residents in a continual state of suffering.
May 10, 2021
Natalie Shure
Nothing Exposes the GOP’s Cruelty More Than Its War on Medicaid Expansion
Wherever they hold power, Republicans work in lockstep to deny their constituents life-saving health care.
May 6, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Big Pharma: There’s No Easy Way Out of the Vaccine Crisis We Created
Corporate America might protest, but the potential of a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines is worth celebrating—and fighting for.
May 6, 2021
Astra Taylor
In Defense of Liberal Conspirators
Our inability to truly conspire is why so many people are struggling today.
May 4, 2021
Amy Littlefield
The Rise of the Corporate-Catholic “Zombie Hospital”
A labor fight at Saint Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts reveals how massive health systems use weak religious affiliations as cover for toxic practices, from unions to reproductive health.
April 28, 2021
Natalie Shure
Joe Biden Is Blowing a Big Moment for Medicare
Done the right way, lowering the program’s eligibility age could reap huge benefits for ordinary Americans, and offer Democrats an electoral advantage.
April 22, 2021
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Monica Potts
The Crisis in Home Care
The way we look after the elderly in this country is broken. But is funneling money into home care enough to solve the problem?
April 16, 2021
Danielle Tcholakian
Medical Risk Is Never Shared Equally. Our Health Care System Is Built to Guarantee That.
What the debate about the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine, birth control, and blood clots was really about
March 29, 2021
Natalie Shure
Prince Harry’s New Fake Mental Health Care Job Is a Farce
Silicon Valley’s exploitative entrepreneurial set has come to rescue the recently detached royals from a life outside the upper crust, to the detriment of the rest of us.
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