It’s a pretty damning indictment about the state of America in 2018 when it takes the school shooting death of a beloved substitute teacher to draw attention to her husband’s crowdfunding campaign to raise money to pay for a lifesaving medical treatment, without which he’ll die within a year.
Erika Zak is 38 years old and lives in Portland, Oregon. Four years ago, after the birth of her daughter, Zak was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic colon cancer that had spread to her liver, according to a Sunday profile by CNN. Due to complications from a surgery to remove two tumors, Zak has been suffering from…
Remember Tom Price? That disgraced-preacher-lookin’, Disney turtle fella who used to Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services but resigned because he took flights on a whole slew of taxpayer-funded private jets? He comes roaring back into our collective consciousness today, rising from the nether-regions of…
Note to all people looking to flummox Ted Cruz: take some pointers from this woman in Texas.
Horror stories about the American healthcare system surface almost every day. Perhaps the most dystopian illustration of this is the fact that GoFundMe pages to help people with medical bills have become depressingly ritualistic. So it’s not that surprising that in the upcoming 2018 midterms, healthcare is the bread…
The conversation about healthcare in America often (correctly) focuses on how utterly insane it is that the United States doesn’t provide healthcare to every citizen, but it turns out the outcomes aren’t much better for people with insurance.
Over the last few months, the Trump administration has begun to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, offering short-term private insurance as an alternative. We thought we’d check in with some people who worked in the industry before rules around pre-existing conditions and mental health parity were enacted: people…
Last summer, I inhaled a rare, flesh-eating bacteria that nearly killed me. Naturally, six months later I went back and interviewed my doctors (among others) and tried to figure out what might have happened had I been one of the 28 million Americans who are completely uninsured.
The New York Times reported Thursday that India’s government unveiled a plan—still in its very early stages—to give 500 million of its poorest citizens free access to health care. It would, in part, give 100 million families up to 500,000 rupees (about $8,000) annually, enough to cover five heart surgeries, the Times…
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell touted this victory for the working classes on Twitter:
It’s been nearly two months since Congress failed to reauthorize a critical program that provides health insurance for 8.9 million kids and some 370,000 pregnant women—the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). As Congress continues to drag its feet refunding the roughly $15 billion program, states across the…
The 13 Senate Republicans writing the bill meant to dismantle and replace the Affordable Care Act are almost done, but they aren’t ready to tell anyone what’s in it. Maybe because they know that you will hate it.