Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Your Personal Information

Marshall Allen / ProPublica Jul 17, 2018 A new report finds the industry is resorting to increasingly cunning tactics to maximize its profits. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges and Dr. Margaret Flowers Discuss How to Fix the Health Care System (Video)

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Feb 21, 2017 Insurance companies pitting "patients and health professionals against each other" have led the U.S. into crisis, Flowers tells the Truthdig columnist. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Nonprofit Hospital Stops Suing So Many Poor Patients: Will Others Follow?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 2, 2016 A story by ProPublica and NPR and a Senate investigation prompt a Missouri nonprofit hospital to change its policies and forgive thousands of patients’ debts. But without similar scrutiny, it’s unclear if other hospitals that sue the poor will change. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Consequences for Violating Patient Privacy in California? Depends Where the Hospital Is

Staff / Truthdig Jan 5, 2016 An analysis found California officials are inconsistently enforcing a 2008 patient privacy law. Hospitals in the state’s Inland Empire rack up deficiencies while Los Angeles hospitals almost never do. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Would Washington’s FDA Fix Cure the Patients or the Drug Industry?

Staff / Truthdig Oct 21, 2015 A bill that would speed up approval for medications and medical devices shows how a major initiative can get traction even in the midst of Washington gridlock — but critics say all the lobbying is drowning out some warnings about patient safety. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Senator to Hospitals: Stop Suing Poor Patients

Staff / Truthdig Jan 24, 2015 Prompted by an investigation by ProPublica and NPR, Sen. Charles Grassley asks a Missouri nonprofit hospital to explain why it seizes the wages of thousands of its patients. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Nonprofit Hospitals Are Seizing Patients’ Wages

By Paul Kiel, ProPublica, and Chris Arnold, NPR Dec 20, 2014 One Missouri hospital has sued thousands of uninsured patients who couldn’t pay for their care, then grabbed a hefty portion of their paychecks to cover the bills. “We will be paying them off until we die,” one debtor said. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Even After Doctors Are Sanctioned or Arrested, Medicare Keeps Paying

By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica Apr 17, 2014 A ProPublica analysis of recently released data shows that dozens of physicians who received payments from Medicare in 2012 had been kicked out of Medicaid, charged with fraud, or settled claims of overbilling Medicare itself. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

So You’ve Become a Patient Safety Statistic—Now What?

Staff / Truthdig Mar 27, 2014 Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Hospital Bills

Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City Feb 25, 2014 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 )

U.S. Medical Refugees Flee to India

Staff / Truthdig Dec 12, 2006 An increasing number of the 46 million Americans without health insurance have begun fleeing to places as far away as India to get lifesaving medical treatments. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )