Bill Boyarsky / TruthdigOct 17, 2016
The Vermont senator rallies his still-faithful base in campaigning for a California proposition aimed at Big Pharma. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
By Michael Winship / Moyers & CompanyAug 31, 2016
This new price gouge is the latest example of a corrupt system that hurts regular Americans—but we will hold accountable those who are responsible. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
By Jessica Huseman / ProPublicaAug 24, 2016
Physicians whose state boards have sanctioned them for harming patients, unnecessarily prescribing addictive drugs, bilking federal insurance programs and even sexual misconduct continue to cash in for consulting, promoting products and more. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 3, 2016
Consumers, including a ProPublica reporter, love saving money using drug copay coupons. But by upending the benefit structure of health insurers, these clever marketing tools may be increasing costs for everyone. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 27, 2016
The health professions make a grave mistake when they treat mental illnesses as “discrete brain conditions that are largely genetically determined and barely influenced by the slings and arrows of misfortune,” writes clinical psychologist and researcher Richard Bentall. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Margaret Flowers and Jill SteinJan 23, 2016
Physicians and Green Party activist/politicians Jill Stein and Margaret Flowers say the two leading Democratic presidential candidates have something in common: covering up the failures of the Affordable Care Act. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigJan 19, 2016
On issue after issue, Clinton proposes incremental solutions that take into account our political system as it is. Sanders proposes dramatic solutions that will only be possible when power is wrested from "big money" interests. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 9, 2016
Emergency room doctors are reaching for medicines that aren’t there after drug shortages jumped more than fivefold between 2008 and 2014. And experts say drug companies are to blame. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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