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Australia's Not-So-Universal Healthcare System Makes Living With Chronic Illness Hell
Some of Australia’s poorest become the nation’s sickest as a result of gaps in Medicare, experts say.
A Hospital Billed Me for My Daughter's Blood Work... Before She Was Born
Alethea received a hospital bill for roughly $4,000 for her baby’s blood work. Only her baby had not yet been born. The charges followed her for two years.
Biden Slams Medicare for All as He Releases Plan to Expand Obamacare
What the plan doesn’t contain is as important as what it does for the purposes of Democratic primary politics.
‘Project Hospital’ is A Great Way to Understand Our Broken Healthcare System
My father has run emergency rooms for years, but I didn't fully understand his job until we played a game together.
Here's What Each Democratic Candidate Means When They Say "Medicare for All"
Support for “Medicare-for-all” is becoming a front-runner topic among Democratic presidential candidates. But the phrase is being used to describe multiple policies.
Where the 2020 Democratic hopefuls stand on Medicare for All
It seems like all the rage, but what it actually means depends on who, and sometimes when, you ask.
This Brewing Healthcare Battle Is a Preview of the Medicare for All War
New York is on the verge of a Democrat-on-Democrat slugfest that will determine the state's healthcare future.
Donald Trump Is Now America's Worst Newspaper Columnist
His 'USA Today' op-ed about healthcare is full of bizarre falsehoods.
Mental Health Is the Number One Reason Australians Are Visiting Their GP
Psychological ailments have overtaken obesity as the number one concern Australian doctors have for the future.
A slim majority of Republicans now want single-payer too
It's not just Bernie Sanders fanatics and DSA darlings.
Forcing Pain Patients Off Their Meds Won't End the Opioid Crisis
It might seem like a good idea to target the small number of people who use the most opioids, but a plan proposed in Oregon won't reduce the number of overdoses or new addictions.
The Next Generation of Doctors Is Pushing for Universal Healthcare
The student caucus of the American Medical Association got the organization to agree to reconsider its decades-long opposition to single-payer healthcare.