Inflated Hospital Bills

Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News Dec 6, 2013 Dig deeper

The U.S. Has the Best Health Care System in the World—for Drug Companies

BLANK Oct 14, 2013 Two new articles dive into the ways in which the pharmaceutical industry has gamed the market forces behind U.S. drug prices, and how sweetheart deals between doctors and financing firms are gouging the economically vulnerable. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Doctors Are Not ‘Steering Clear’ of Medicare

Staff / Truthdig Sep 11, 2013 Despite what Republicans say, a study shows that physicians are not turning away elderly patients on the insurance plan; after revelations about the NSA, the American public has becoming increasingly discontent with government protection of privacy; meanwhile, television host Jimmy Kimmel duped the world with a disastrous twerking YouTube video that proves how easy it is to divert attention from serious matters. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Health Care

Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania May 6, 2013 Dig deeper

Will Wonders Never Cease?

By Lewis Lapham, TomDispatch Jun 30, 2012 What once was sorcery maybe now is science, but the wonders technological of which I find myself in full possession, among them indoor plumbing and electric light, I incline to regard as demonstrations magical. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Health Care Jobs Are Where It’s At

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 26, 2012 The number of health care jobs will swell dramatically over the next decade as baby boomers age and Americans continue to eat poorly and spurn exercise, a report from Georgetown University says. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

In Fallujah, a Hospital of Horrors

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Apr 27, 2012 All at once, Nadhem Shokr al-Hadidi's administration office becomes a little chamber of horrors. A baby with a hugely deformed mouth. A child with a defect of the spinal cord, material from the spine outside the body. A baby with a terrible, vast Cyclopean eye. Another baby with only half a head, stillborn like the rest. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

White House Pushing Big Pharma to Report Payments to MDs

Staff / Truthdig Jan 17, 2012 The Obama administration is laying the legal groundwork to strongly encourage (read: enforce) more transparency between pharmaceutical companies and doctors by requiring drugmakers to divulge the details of their monetary exchanges with M.D.s for various services and perks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Where’s Winter?

David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star Jan 6, 2012 Dig deeper

Groups Push to Make Doctors’ Performance Records Public Again

Staff / Truthdig Sep 17, 2011 Journalism and patient advocacy organizations are fighting against a recent decision by the Obama administration to shut down public access to an online database of doctor malpractice and disciplinary records. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The View From a Libyan Hospital

Staff / Truthdig Aug 26, 2011 The morgues in Tripoli hospitals are overflowing with dead bodies, and doctors in just one hospital said they have been treating more than 500 patients a day for gunshot wounds. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Doctors Are Turning Left

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2011 While medical doctors are a historically conservative bunch, many physicians are beginning to lean left as they abandon the high costs and responsibilities associated with running private practices to take salaried jobs in hospitals, doctors' advocates say. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )