Health Insurance

From Bread to Barriers: When Health-Care Access Becomes the Crime

Les Misérables was never truly about bread. Bread was the spark, hunger the condition, and desperation the predictable outcome of…

3 weeks ago

So Your Insurance Dropped Your Doctor. Now What?

[REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION - FROM KFF Health News - By By Bram Sable-Smith; Illustrations by Oona Zenda] Last winter, Amber Wingler started…

2 months ago

‘They Won’t Help Me’: Sickest Patients Face Insurance Denials Despite Policy Fixes

In 2023, Sheldon Ekirch was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy, which makes her limbs and muscles feel as if they’re…

9 months ago

Empathy and Health Excellence — The Superpower of Care Delivery

When Medicine Transcends the Sterile Clinical Encounter

10 months ago

Business of Health: When Patients Become Secondary to the System

Can the Health System Align Around a Common Goal — Better Health

10 months ago

A Shock to the U.S. Health Industry

In the health industry, we often claim that the patient is at the center of care; that naïve Band-Aid should…

1 year ago

We Know the Health Ecosystem is Fragmented, Resulting in Rising Costs and Poorer Patient Outcomes, But What Are We Doing About It?

As We Enter the “Post-Fragmentation” Period, Health System Kinetics Points Us Toward Solutions

2 years ago

Benchmark KFF Survey: Annual Family Premiums for Employer Coverage Rise 7% to Nearly $24,000 in 2023

Amid Changing Abortion Laws, 1-in-10 Large Firms Say Their Largest Plan Doesn’t Cover Legally Provided Abortions Under Any Circumstances

2 years ago

Doctors and Patients Try to Shame Insurers Online to Reverse Prior Authorization Denials

This story is authored by LAUREN SAUSSER and is reprinted with permission by KFF Health News. Sally Nix was furious…

2 years ago

New Alzheimer’s Drugs Will Worsen Inequality

Disclosure: I own a fraction of a share of Eli Lilly stock. We live in a very exciting time! Alzheimer’s…

2 years ago

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