DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2022-01-28 After Miscarriages, Workers Have Few Guarantees for Time Off or Job-Based Help Bryce Covert For three years, Rachel Makkar said, she thrived in her job as a broker and asset manager at J&B Building Co. in Colorado. She excelled at her work — she said her performance reviews noted that — and […]
2022-01-27 The Doctor Didn’t Show Up, but the Hospital ER Still Charged $1,012 Noam N. Levey Dhaval Bhatt had been warned about hospital emergency rooms. “People always told me to avoid the ER in America unless you are really dying,” said Bhatt, an immigrant from India who got a Ph.D. in pharmacology in the […]
2022-01-26 I Write About America’s Absurd Health Care System. Then I Got Caught Up in It. Bram Sable-Smith I got a hurried voicemail from my pharmacist in Wisconsin the day before Thanksgiving letting me know my insurance was refusing to cover my insulin. I had enough of the hormone that keeps me alive to […]
2022-01-23 Wildfires and Omicron Prompt a Special Health Insurance Enrollment Period in Colorado Markian Hawryluk A wildfire displaced thousands of Coloradans just as the omicron surge began sweeping through the state, so health insurance was likely not on many people’s minds when the regular enrollment period for the state’s health insurance marketplace ended Jan. […]
2022-01-21 Florida Governor Signs Law Reforming Program for Brain-Damaged Infants by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Birth Rights Investigating Florida’s NICA Program Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has […]
2022-01-20 HHS Proposal for Marketplace Plans Carries a Hefty Dose of Consumer Caution Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Some insurance brokers are enrolling people into Affordable Care Act health plans without their consent, perhaps for the commissions, a move that could put consumers in danger of owing back the subsidies connected with the coverage. […]
2022-01-18 Covered California’s Insurance Deals Range From ‘No-Brainer’ to Sticker Shock Bernard J. Wolfson If you purchase your own health insurance, it’s time to choose your coverage for 2022. If you buy it through Covered California, the chances are better than ever that you will get a big discount on your monthly premium […]
Sugar detox? Cutting carbs? A doctor explains why you should keep fruit on the menu Ripe berries and sugar crystals are both sweet, but one offers much more than just calories. Chris George/PhotoPlus Magazine/Future via Getty Images Jennifer Rooke, Morehouse School of Medicine One of my patients – who had been struggling with obesity, uncontrolled diabetes […]
2022-01-12 App Attempts to Break Barriers to Bankruptcy for Those in Medical Debt Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio An unplanned and complicated pregnancy pushed Carlazjion Constant of Smyrna, Tennessee, to the financial brink. Her high-deductible health insurance paid virtually nothing toward the extra obstetrician visits needed during her high-risk pregnancy. Just as those […]
2022-01-11 Black-Owned Hospice Seeks to Bring Greater Ease in Dying to Black Families Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio This time, it didn’t take much persuading for Mary Murphy to embrace home hospice. When her mother was dying from Alzheimer’s disease in 2020, she had been reluctant until she saw what a help it […]