Call your U.S. representative and demand that they step up to defend union nurses in their right to speak up for their patients and form a union. When calling the U.S. House, please urge them to sign ...

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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Thousands of low-income patients, some desperately ill, are scrambling to find new doctors as they lose access to UCLA Health physicians after an eight-year Medi-Cal contract was not renewed.

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Four models for state-level universal coverage, and how each one works.

Insurance claim denials are a common source of administrative burden, especially for patients with private health insurance. Contesting denied claims requires considerable investment from physicians a...

The big tech corporation Palantir is partnering with the federal government to enable brutal and illegal attacks on immigrants, observers, and the public, including our patients and our coworkers. At ...

Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

Infectious disease specialists at Tufts share what they know about cyclospora, a parasite that has made thousands of people sick this summer.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released an Interim Final Rule that explains how states must implement the new Medicaid work requirements created by H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Beginning January 1, 2027, many adults ages 19 to 64 who receive Medi-Cal through the Medicaid expansion program will be required to work, volunteer, attend school, or participate in other qualifying activities for at least 80 hours each month to keep their health coverage.

Exploding health-care costs and a New Wave of progressive candidates are reviving calls for single-payer health care.

“The swing voters who will decide the midterms are not asking Democrats to sound more like Republicans—they want Democrats to embrace progressive economic policies that will actually work to lower cos...

Many METARs are retired and many own our homes. So we may be less aware of the Macroeconomic trends that impact working Americans who are the backbone of our economy. https://www.wsj.com/health/healt...

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...

Two people were the first to receive the therapy for a condition that damages the spinal cord and optic nerve

The Department of Health and Human Services is cutting grants for teenage pregnancy prevention programs that promote abortion, sexual activity for minors, or transgender ideology.

An analysis of SB 770, a multi-payer, anti-single-payer bill The term, "Unified Health Care Financing" is used 15 times, including the title of the bill. "Single-payer" is mentioned once after "includ...

CalCare, in the form of AB 2200, pointed a path to save the state $135 Billion a year and included programmatic proposals to address healthcare inequalities “I’m tired of politicians saying they suppo...

"ICE agents entered a polling place to intimidate a worker about her social media posts," said a civil liberties advocate.

Every month I pay a ridiculous amount of money to CareFirst for an on-exchange, Affordable Care Act health insurance plan.  On June 5th, dur

Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.