Amazon allegedly fired a call center employee in Kentucky for “stealing time,” due to access to restroom needs stemming from the employee’s Crohn’s disease. Crohn’s disease is a painful inflammatory bowel condition…
A one-year supply of the drug Firdapse now costs as much as a house. And a mother of two now has no choice but to ration her current supply. Bhanu Patel is…
A pharmaceutical company, Insys Therapeutics, is accused of bribing doctors and offering kickbacks in exchange for opioid prescriptions. That’s sadly not unusual. What is unusual is that Insys produced a rap video…
One story that got little attention during Super Bowl weekend was a free healthcare clinic in a rural community attracting thousands of desperate Americans. Remote Area Medical (RAM) — a group of…
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals recently acquired the North American license for a life-saving drug that treats a rare medical condition, meaning the free version is no longer available. Now, Catalyst is charging patients who…
Despite earning the support of a majority of Utah voters in November, Republican lawmakers in the Beehive State just voted to partially repeal Medicaid expansion. In addition, Utah Republicans’ alternative to Medicaid…
Prescription drug prices in the United States are insane. It’s such an endemic problem that both and have vowed to address it, albeit in different ways. And as illustrated by Congressional superstar…
In her CNN town hall in Iowa, Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) didn’t shy away from her support for Medicare for All, and put private health insurance companies on notice. Des Moines, Iowa…
Casey Smitherman, superintendent of Elwood Community Schools in Indiana, was charged January 15 with insurance fraud, identity deception and official misconduct after attempting to help a sick student. The student was uninsured.…
Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) isn’t a fan of universal healthcare in the U.S., but apparently trusts the system in Canada enough to operate on him. That’s according to a recent article from…