A little-known law called ERISA bars millions of patients from suing for damages when health insurers wrongly deny claims.
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Health-care professionals aren’t pacifists refusing conscription into the military. They freely choose health-care careers – that comes with obligations.
An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?
The law requires medical test results be made available to patients even before a clinician has reviewed them.
It turns out a unified government isn’t enough to get bills passed.
Specialty prescription drugs are responsible for countless medical miracles, but their high price tag is the main reason health care costs are out of control.
GOP lawmakers say their bills to replace the Affordable Care Act would do a better job than the ACA of controlling rising health care costs, but 40 years of deregulation show it just won’t work.
For many of the nation’s poor, food and shelter are more important than health care. Questions of insurance coverage loom broadly, but another question lingers: how to treat the poor we do not see.
While many groups of people stand to lose health insurance benefits under the new health care bill, smokers would be particularly harmed. Here’s how cutbacks in cessation programs could harm them.
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