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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) described the state of healthcare in America as “barbarism,” in an upcoming episode of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) podcast. In a preview of Wednesday’s episode of “Bernie: The Podcast,” Ocasio-Cortez expressed her sadness about the high costs of healthcare and housing and the difficult choices many Americans must make, as she committed…

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed on Thursday that she felt like she might “vomit” while listening to the recent verbal debates in the Supreme Court regarding access to emergency abortion. “I thought I would actually vomit while listening to the verbal argument before the Supreme Court about whether or not doctors and hospitals and nurses have…

In the past few years, insurance companies have increased their reliance on prior authorization, leading to delays and rejections of treatment that are causing harm or even death, according to many doctors and patients.

Researchers from the USDA discovered that people in rural areas aged 25 to 54 are dying at much higher rates from natural causes such as chronic diseases and cancer, compared to those in urban areas of the same age group.

The lawsuit alleges consumers lost access to their doctors or medications and faced financial costs, such as owing money toward medical care or having to repay tax credits that were paid toward the unauthorized coverage.

The toll the American health care system extracts is, in some respects, the price of extraordinary progress in medicine, but is also evidence of the poor fit between older adults’ capacities and the health care system’s demands.

Here are some of the most persistent COVID misinformation narratives.

Thousands of physicians have transitioned to this approach, which allows them to raise their earnings while reducing the number of patients they see.

During the Senate's hearing on the serious financial mismanagement of the Massachusetts hospitals owned by Steward Health and the increasing influence of private equity in healthcare, the chair for CEO Ralph de la Torre was conspicuously empty.

A healthcare giant set to purchase a nationwide physician network from financially disgruntled hospital operator Steward Health Care is catching flak from Massachusetts lawmakers who are calling for a careful review of the deal.