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The Democratic debates may make you think Americans are scared of “losing” private insurance. But candidates who Medicare For All are still going strong.
Closing expensive trauma centers and NICUs would certainly hurt patients’ ability to access intensive care. New questions emerge from the Ballad hospital merger: how many high-level trauma centers do states need, and who should decide?
Any time that lawmakers try to inject transparency in hospital pricing, something stops them along the way.
A $10 million fine and discontinuation of one product are small punishments for a pharmaceutical company’s role in the opioid crisis, even when it covers just two counties.
Should the number of operations that a surgeon performs be their main criteria for judgment? Certainly not, but that number offers patients some crucial, basic information about their surgeon.
Under The Influence is Tarbell’s weekly roundup of stories and ideas related to how special interests operate in America.
Under The Influence is Tarbell’s weekly roundup of stories and ideas related to how special interests operate in America.
Under The Influence is Tarbell’s weekly roundup of stories and ideas related to how special interests operate in America.
Under The Influence is Tarbell’s weekly roundup of stories and ideas related to how special interests operate in America.
Under The Influence is Tarbell’s weekly roundup of stories and ideas related to how special interests operate in America.
The Darkest Money In Washington: Business Groups Spend More On Advocacy And Consulting Than Lobbying
Is the beloved program on its last legs?
Under The Influence is Tarbell’s weekly roundup of stories and ideas related to how special interests operate in America.
Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia is slated to close in September, less than two years after a private equity firm bought it.
Sen. Harris’ plan won’t work and history will prove it. I know because I’ve been there.
Under The Influence is Tarbell’s weekly roundup of stories and ideas related to how special interests operate in America.
Where will private insurance fit into a Medicare for All system – and would it be worth saving either way? A health policy professor emeritus explores.
Under The Influence is Tarbell’s weekly roundup of stories and ideas related to how special interests operate in America.
Facebook has faced myriad legal settlements time and again, so a $5 billion fine from the FTC will not make them sweat.
Price-cutting initiatives have been pulled off the White House docket, and drug makers are working hard to maintain their rising profits.
The Democratic congresswoman and former HHS secretary called a bill to allow her state to import cheaper drugs from Canada “the silliest thing I’ve ever heard of.”
A Tennessee physician and professor watches his state shred the medical safety net of his state.
Under The Influence is Tarbell’s weekly roundup of stories and ideas related to how special interests operate in America.
Amgen and Astellas were fined more than $125 million combined for skirting Medicare payment requirements to help lower-income consumers. But a fine that small does not send much of a message.
The Ballad Health merger has been raising alarms among physicians serving the coverage area since its announcement.