Author: Mark Wrede

  “’In my mind, if all my doctors are “in-insurance,” why would they pair me with someone who was “out-of-insurance”?’ she asked. And the hospital system tried its best to make contesting the charge difficult, she said.”       When a Quick Telehealth Visit […]

  “’This is life-changing for people to now be able to go get regular checkups, get labs drawn, see if they might be diabetic or have high blood pressure,’ says Sarah Dar, policy director in the Los Angeles office of the California Immigrant Policy Center.” […]

  “Many readers blamed the predominantly for-profit nature of American medicine and the long-term care industry for depleting the financial resources of older people, leaving the federal-state Medicaid programs to take care of them once they were destitute.”         ‘Financial Ruin Is […]

  “Los Angeles County public schools are rolling out an ambitious effort to offer free mental health services to their 1.3 million K-12 students, a key test of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s sweeping, $4.7 billion program to address a youth mental health crisis.”     […]

  “The survey … painfully illustrates that racial bias in healthcare is as damaging as any disease.”     Many People of Color Worry Good Health Care Is Tied to Their Appearance   Many people from racial and ethnic minority groups brace themselves for insults […]

  “There is precious little assistance from the government for families who need a home health aide, unless they are poor. The people working in these jobs are often woefully underpaid and unprepared to help a frail, older person with dementia bathe and use the […]