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September 2, 2020
Libby Watson
Covid Patients Are Receiving Eye-Popping Bills. It’s Not All Trump’s Fault.
His plan to help with hospital charges is poorly designed. But even a well-crafted plan would have been no match for our inept health care system.
August 26, 2020
Libby Watson
The Republican Solution to Shuttered Rural Hospitals: Zoom Calls
Small-ball innovations like telemedicine expansion can’t patch a system that’s set up to fail.
April 30, 2020
Libby Watson
The Intolerable Fragility of American Hospitals
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the frail and unequal nature of our public health system. It doesn’t have to be this way.
April 29, 2020
Sarah Wang
Confessions of a PPE Smuggler
A journey into the desperate world of ordinary citizens trying to get personal protective equipment to health care workers—against hospitals’ wishes
April 10, 2020
Lindsay Beyerstein
The Staggeringly Complicated Ethics of Ventilating Coronavirus Patients
Amid a shortage of ventilators, some are arguing these machines might not even be needed. That’s a vast oversimplification.
April 2, 2020
J.C. Pan
Disinvestment Made Our Cities a Powder Keg in a Pandemic
New York doesn’t have a density problem. It has an austerity problem.
March 26, 2020
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The Politics of Everything
An Emergency Decades in the Making
Was the United States ever prepared for a pandemic?
September 11, 2019
Libby Watson
How Greedy Hospitals Fleece the Poor
The most vulnerable Americans are being dunned into destitution through surprise fees and fraudulent practices.
December 27, 2018
Ted Alcorn
The Fight to Save Independent Health Care in the Age of Medical Monopolies
Can a New Mexico oncologist succeed in breaking up the state's biggest health care provider?
November 16, 2016
Magazine
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
The Rise of “Zombie Religious Hospitals”
Why are so many secular hospitals imposing religious restrictions on medical care?
August 13, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
The Most Common Childbirth Practice in America Is Unnecessary and Dangerous
Why do doctors and patients insist on using electronic fetal monitoring?
September 8, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Maybe You Don't Need a Big Doctor Network to Get Good Care
Injecting some data into an Obamacare controversy
August 28, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
In Michigan, a Defeat for the Tea Party—and Victory for Common Sense
July 25, 2013
Ilan Greenberg
Held Hostage by a Hospital
The Mayo Clinic is making Rochester, Minn., double in size—and billing residents for it
April 22, 2013
Michael Kinsley
Brilliant: The Problem with the Problem with Health Care Costs
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