For Uninsured People With Cancer, Securing Care Can Be Like Spinning a Roulette Wheel
Contending with cancer is horrific enough. Fighting to get care is scary, demoraizing, and can be fatal.
Read more...Contending with cancer is horrific enough. Fighting to get care is scary, demoraizing, and can be fatal.
Read more...Yves here. This post confirms something Lambert has highlighted in the context of elections: that nurses are one of the most effective union groups. Here they are combatting abusively low hospital staffing levels. Not only will this campaign help slow the decline of the quality of care, it should help slow the exodus of nurses, […]
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Read more...“What am I missing in thinking that it’s cruel to make a medicine that people can’t afford?”
Read more...Another reputable body reports more examples of Medicare Advantage plans using AI to engage in insurance fraud.
Read more...How AI is institutionalizing Medicare Adantage fraud, to the degree that appeals of denials often outrun the patient’s life.
Read more...California’s Covid censorship law has not yet been killed by the judiciary, sadly.
Read more...More Medicare “buyer beware” alerts.
Read more...A new paper recaps what the more solid studies have found about how SARS-CoV-2 does harm.
Read more...Most patients have no means of avoiding the burdensome process that has become a defining feature of American health care. But even those who have the time and energy to fight back may not get the outcome they hoped for.
Read more...A profile of body dysmorphic disorder.
Read more...The Biden Administration has yet to take comparatively easy steps to reduce medical debt abuses.
Read more...A big reason US health sucks is that the government refuses to crack down on abuses like price gouging and billing games.
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