A mom in Las Vegas got a shocking bill -- $3,000 -- after doctors removed a plastic doll shoe from her 3-year-old daughter’s nose. Read the rest
Mom gets $3,000 bill after doctors remove plastic doll shoes from 3-year-old's nose
Woman got 500 letters from healthcare company in 5 days [VIDEO]
'I thought it was a joke'
A new drug that may help lots of people will apparently be more expensive than it should
Pretomanid, developed by the non-profit TB Alliance, offers a new, safer and more effective treatment for tuberculosis. The non-profit is organized to improve access and affordability of life-saving treatments, but has currently only allowed one drug manufacturer to produce pretomanid. Doctors without Borders fears high prices will limit availability.
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"In all of the lower-income countries, we will be encouraging other manufacturers, generic manufacturers, to get into the market — to get competition to drive down the price as well," he says.
But Lynch of Doctors Without Borders thinks there is a better way to keep these drugs affordable: baking a low-price requirement into the TB Alliance's licensing agreement with Mylan, which the organizations have not disclosed.
"What works even better than competition — which, by the way, will take a while — is you set the price reasonably low to begin with," she says.
Your massive surprise hospital bills are making bank for private equity
Private equity firms like Blackstone and KKR have acquired massive health companies like Teamhealth and Emcare, which bill out doctors to the hospitals they work for, taking those doctors out of the hospitals' insurance agreements and massively hiking their fees -- that's why when you go to a hospital, even one that's covered by your insurer, you still end up with massive surprise bills for your care. Read the rest
Joe Biden, 2006: “I do not view abortion as a choice and a right. I think it’s always a tragedy”
Biden said he was 'odd man out' with Democrats on abortion in 2006
House agrees to fund September 11th Victims Compensation Fund until 2090, one day after Jon Stewart's emotional plea
Bill would extend fund expiration to 2090, no specific amount, whatever funds needed.
Judge recuses himself from health insurance cancer-denial case because he considers the company "immoral" and "barbaric"
US District Judge Robert N Scola recused himself from a class action suit against Unitedhealthcare that alleges that Unitedhealthcare denied them promising proton beam cancer treatments by falsely claiming that they were "experimental." Read the rest
Here's how to help women in Alabama get an abortion
Here's how to help women who need and/or want an abortion in Alabama.
Alabama senate passes bill to ban abortion even in rape and incest cases
“Alabama is one signature away from enacting a near-total ban on abortions.”
Texas lawmakers want Death Penalty for women who get abortions
They're pro-life, you see.
Trump Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Varma tweets obscene Halloween joke
It's not funny. Read the rest
HACKED: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS); 75K individuals affected
The United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said Friday it was responding to a data breach that exposed the files of about 75,000 people. Read the rest
There's an EpiPen shortage. Parents of kids with serious allergies prepare for back-to-school without the life saving medication.
The EpiPen is a widely used medical device that delivers emergency medication to prevent someone with a severe allergic reaction from going into anaphylactic shock. There's a shortage of EpiPens across the United States. Parents of kids with serious allergies are worried about sending their kids back to school without one. Read the rest
60 Congressional Democrats form a Medicare For All caucus
When Bernie Sanders made a bid for the Democratic presidential candidacy in 2016 with a pledge of "Medicare For All," the party establishment (coffers fattened with money from the health insurance industry) claimed that the policy was a nonstarter that would never find popular support. Read the rest
Blue Cross employees are instructed to donate to the boss's daughter, a "Democrat" who opposes single-payer
Gretchen Whitmer wants to be the Democratic governor of Michigan, and she has distinguished herself from her opponents Abdul El-Sayed, and Shri Thanedar by opposing single-payer healthcare and endorsing the broken, expensive, murderous private system, a subject she has deep expertise in thanks to being raised by Richard Whitmer, who built the family fortune during his 18-year tenure as president of Blue Cross of Michigan. Read the rest
Million-dollar lotto winner finally can afford a doctor visit, discovers he has terminal cancer and promptly dies
Donald Savastano was a self-employed carpenter eking out a marginal living without retirement savings or health insurance; when he won the $1 million jackpot in New York's "Merry Millionaire" lotto, he could finally afford to see a doctor to check out his long-term sense of unwellness. Read the rest
Incentives matter: America's for-profit medical industry thrives on massive wastage, unnecessary procedures, overbilling and overtreating
The first time I interacted with the US medical system was when I was a student at Michigan State University with a comprehensive travel insurance package my bank sold me before I left Canada: the cafeteria food gave me my first case of acid reflux and after it had persisted for several days, I went to the walk-in clinic on campus. Read the rest
