For Californians Drowning in Healthcare Costs, Governor’s Race Offers Few Answers When Ashley Porter began slurring her speech one October day four years ago, doctors suspected a stroke. A spinal tap, an MRI, dozens ...
She Needed an EpiPen. But First, an Urgent Care Asked Her To Pay. Stephanie Rowell was standing on her parents’ front porch in July when a wasp stung her left arm. She said that almost immediately...
Hospital Beds for the Nation’s Sickest Kids Are Disappearing Hospital units dedicated to treating the nation’s sickest kids are disappearing nationwide. In the past year alone, hospitals have clo...
Digging Into the Money Behind the US Healthcare System The United States spends a lot of money on healthcare. To better understand how much, who spends it, and what it’s spent on, we dug in...
Trump Dangles Rural Health Dollars To Push States To Change Hospital Laws The Trump administration has hinged federal funding for states on whether they end or loosen powerful but controversial laws that regu...
States Are Forcing Hospitals To Offer More People Financial Aid. In Oregon, It’s Working. Four years ago, Oregon hospitals were under fire from state authorities and patient advocates . Hospitals, critics said, had made it ...
New Arrivals in the ER? Georgia Gears Up To Solve Rural Maternal Health Crisis LAVONIA, Ga. — It had been a decade since Kara Holden last had a baby. But as the former obstetric nurse prepared for her fourth child...