If there’s one thing a majority of Americans can agree on, it’s that healthcare costs are too expensive, and they want upfront pricing. HealthPocket released results today of a pulse survey which found that 85% of U.S. adults think that healthcare costs in general are too high. Underscoring that point, 51% of those surveyed have… Read More: More than half of Americans have avoided medical care due… »
Authorities say a measles epidemic sweeping through Samoa continues to worsen with the death toll rising to 25, all but one of them young children By NICK PERRY Associated Press November 25, 2019, 7:05 AM 3 min read Authorities said Monday that a measles epidemic sweeping through Samoa continues to worsen with the death toll… Read More: Samoa measles epidemic worsens with 24 children now dead »
Prominent doctors at UVA Health System are expressing public outrage at their employer’s practices to collect unpaid medical debt from its patients. A Kaiser Health News report in September that showed UVA sued 36,000 patients over six years for more than $ 100 million, seizing wages and savings and even pushing families into bankruptcy. Special… Read More: UVA Doctors Decry Aggressive Billing Practices By Their Own Hospital »
November 21, 2019 Posted By Categories Gary Schwitzer is the founder and publisher of HealthNewsReview.org. He authored the Statement of Principles for the Association of Health Care Journalists in 2004. He tweets as @garyschwitzer or as @HealthNewsRevu. Two months from now we will be in mid-winter, late January. How about four days in warm, sunny… Read More: Another conflicted all-expenses-paid junket offer by the National Press Foundation »