Tag: Health Care

Private equity is swallowing up America's emergency rooms. 1 in 4 ERs are now staffed by private equity-based firms. The waits are longer, the bills…

Walgreens and CVS are becoming unbearable for customers and workers — so pharmacists are unionizing. This fall, they walked out of stores nationwide during "Pharmageddon."…

Seniors in a rural Wisconsin town are fighting to save their publicly owned nursing home. The county wants to sell the town-owned home to an…

Video produced and hosted by Katie Fernelius There’s a rural hospital crisis in America. 30% of rural hospitals across the U.S. are in danger of…

A health insurance whistleblower is exposing their most appalling practice. It's called prior authorization — when you need your insurer's permission to get medical care —…

Corporations have turned Medicare Advantage into a money-making scheme, denying patients care to generate profits. For Megan Bent, it may have cost her father his…

UPMC is a health care giant. It employs more than 92,000 people, has an operating revenue of roughly $26 billion, and as a “non-profit”, it’s…

In October of 2018, Eli Lilly was a mid-level pharmaceutical company, valued at not even half of Pfizer, but the company had a secret —…

What happens when you run health care like a fast-food chain? You get America’s largest for-profit hospital system: HCA Healthcare. This is the story of…

The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) replaced all of their helpline volunteers and workers with a chatbot named Tessa, shortly after their workers unionized. NEDA's…

Kenda Sutton-El: My client actually had a nine-centimeter fibroid and I had to keep reminding the health care staff that, hey, she actually does have…

Medical debt is the largest driver of bankruptcy in the United States. More than 100 million American adults are saddled with health care debt or…