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Patient Underwent One Surgery but Was Billed for Two. Even After Being Sued, She Refused To Pay.
Jamie Holmes says a surgery center tried to make her pay for two operations after she underwent only one. She refused to buckle, even after a collection agency sued her last winter.
Holmes, who lives in northwestern…
Los contrastes de las fórmulas Harris-Walz y Trump-Vance en la atención de salud
Stephanie Armour
La elección de la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris del gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, como su compañero de fórmula está poniendo el tema de la atención médica en primer plano en la recta final hacia las elecciones…
En medio de las expulsiones de Medicaid, muchos estados deciden expandirlo
El año pasado, después de sufrir una lesión cerebral, Trisha Byers se mudó de Massachusetts a Carolina del Norte para estar más cerca de su familia. El cambio de domicilio, sin embargo, la dejó sin algo crucial: el seguro médico.…
Viajar para morir: la última forma de turismo médico
En los 18 meses posteriores a ser diagnosticada con la reaparición de un cáncer de ovarios que creía haber superado hace 20 años, Francine Milano viajó dos veces desde su casa de Pennsylvania a Vermont. No fue a esquiar, ni a…
Traveling To Die: The Latest Form of Medical Tourism
In the 18 months after Francine Milano was diagnosed with a recurrence of the ovarian cancer she thought she’d beaten 20 years ago, she traveled twice from her home in Pennsylvania to Vermont. She went not to ski, hike, or…
Harris Did Not Vote to ‘Cut Medicare,’ Despite Trump’s Claim
Jacob Gardenswartz
“Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to cut, as you know, Medicare by $273 billion. She cast a vote to cut Medicare.”
— Former President Donald Trump at a July 24 campaign rally in Charlotte,…
Harris-Walz Ticket Sharpens Contrast With Trump-Vance on Health Care
STILLWATER, Minn. — Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate is making health care a front-burner issue in the final sprint to the November presidential election.
Walz, a…
Inside the Political Fight To Build a Rural Georgia Hospital
JACKSON, Ga. — Ed Whitehouse stood alongside a state highway in rural Butts County, Georgia, and surveyed acres of rolling fields and forests near Interstate 75. Instead of farmland and trees, he envisioned a hospital.…
Bipartisan Effort Paves Way for Reviving Shuttered Hospitals in Georgia
ATLANTA — At the shuttered Atlanta Medical Center, a “Stronger Together” mural sends a hopeful message near a summer spray of hydrangeas. The campus was mostly quiet on a recent weekend, since AMC closed almost two years ago. A…
Journalists Discuss African Mpox Upsurge, EpiPen Alternative, and Medicaid Unwinding
KFF Health News’ senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health, Céline Gounder, discussed the World Health Organization’s declaration that the mpox outbreak in Africa is a global health emergency on CBS’…