Before being diagnosed with ALS, Tony Barrett was a veterinary technician in Southern California who loved making people smile. His last act is no different. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS,…
As the American healthcare debate rages on, one conversation is what would happen to workers’ employer-sponsored plans under a single-payer system, like Medicare for All. But if the data on the cost…
Are your kids insured? Parents in Tennessee might want to double-check. Over the last two years, at least 128,000 kids have been removed from Medicaid coverage through TennCare or CoverKids, many without…
Amazon is the second-largest retail business in the world, and made its founder Jeff Bezos the richest man in modern history. But as more information comes out, it becomes more apparent that…
In Louisville, Kentucky, a group masquerading as a healthcare company is driving a van around impoverished neighborhoods and offering $20 for DNA samples. Local NBC affiliate WAVE 3 News reported that the…
A federal judge has ruled against Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas, saying they’re contradictory to Medicaid’s purpose as a healthcare program. U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled against the…
30-year-old Melissa Latronica was recently subjected to the brunt of the criminal justice system, all over an ambulance bill from 2014. Latronica, who lives in Northwestern Indiana, has three kids, and was…
(EDITOR’S NOTE, 3/11/19, 1:22 PM ET: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-California) had not co-sponsored the bill, when he was in fact one of the…
Healthcare is big business — not just for the healthcare industry itself, but for people profiting from buying and selling stock in the industry. One of the people making a buck off…
Rob Solomon, the CEO of crowdfunding site GoFundMe, has had his fill of seeing his site’s users get crushed by medical debt. In a recent interview with Kaiser Health News, Solomon lamented…