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Many Fear Medical Bills More than Serious Illness

Availability and affordability of healthcare has often been a top concern  in the United States, with a majority worrying a great deal about access. Illness can be uncomfortable in the best case scenario, but a poll released this week says that even a serious illness […]

Soaring Insurance Premiums Continue Unabated as Congress Clashes

Propping up the health insurance industry and protecting policyholders has been a fragile balancing act that usually results in increasing premium hikes for already struggling families. And it looks like it’s about to get worse. Senate and House Republicans on Monday released their latest plan […]

Higher Prescription Drug Costs, Bigger Profits, Fewer Penalties

Without reform and tougher enforcement, prescription drugs will continue to be a major reason that the United States spends much more on health care costs than any other country with worse outcomes. A Journal of the American Medical Association study showed that spending per capita […]

California Nurses Denounce Assembly Select Committee Final Report

  Today the California Nurses Association denounced the Final Report issued by the Assembly Select Committee on Health Care Delivery Systems and Universal Coverage. Blasting the report as a tone-deaf abandonment of millions of Californians faced with medical bills that they cannot pay, the nurses […]

Pharma Bro’s Predatory Spirit Lives On In Drug Industry

“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, who became the face of all that is wrong with the drug industry, was sentenced last week to seven years for securities fraud. While unrelated to the criminal trial, Shkreli bought in 2015, through one of his companies, a 62-year-old drug […]