Hillary Clinton is not going to make it easy for you to come around to supporting her. “You” meaning the good young liberal, who probably voted for Obama, and perhaps even (if you are old enough) supported him over her in 2008.
America's health care system has many problems. One is the fact that it is incredibly difficult to know how much things cost. We asked for prices on health care. Now, we've assembled some for you.
An elderly man claims his penis "completely eroded away" over the course of two weeks, far past the point where reconstructive surgery could have saved it, because Kaiser wouldn't let his nurses remove a catheter. He's suing the insurance company for refusing to end his painful ordeal and causing "permanent genital…
Accused "killer nurse" Daniela Poggiali is suspected of murdering as many as 38 of her patients because she found them or their families "annoying." It was initially reported she'd taken selfies next to the bodies of her alleged victims, but the suspicious photos were actually shot by a coworker. They leaked to the…
A woman who nearly died of cardiac arrest last year is now facing bankruptcy because she was taken to the "wrong" hospital while unconscious. Although she has insurance, the medical center that saved her life is out-of-network.
There are many things wrong with the bloated, expensive American health care system. I would like to complain about one small part of it: the prices. It's not just that the prices are high. It's that... where the hell are the prices?
A nurse working in a northeastern Italian hospital has been arrested as part of an investigation into the deaths of 38 patients who, cops said, she may have injected with potassium chloride because they or their family members were "annoying,"
The old VA secretary is gone and the hospital scandal has fallen from the headlines, but veterans and their advocates continue to share their stories with Gawker. Today's story is from a Persian Gulf vet who says she lost a pregnancy—and years of her life—to VA incompetence.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Obama's nominee to become secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing on Thursday. Image via J. Scott Applewhite/AP.
You might think that the U.S. government's small step towards a national health care system would somehow help bring the cost of prescription drugs down to reasonable levels. You could not be more wrong! You idiot!
Administrators at the Department of Veterans Affairs' hospital in Phoenix used an off-the-books paper system to hide a backlog of thousands of sick veterans who needed health care, and at least 40 vets died while waiting for the facility to take them.
After a young girl from an Army family broke her foot, she went to see the base's resident Staff Sergeant/Orthopedic Specialist/M.C., who outfitted her with a cast and dropped some rhyming instructions about how to maintain it.
A Florida woman with a heart condition reportedly died last month because she couldn't afford her medication, since her $9,000 income didn't qualify her for Medicaid. Gov. Rick Scott has refused federal Obamacare funding that would expand Medicaid coverage in the state.
A Swedish man who became paralyzed after a stroke is now filing an official complaint against a hospital where he overheard doctors talking about donating his organs when he was still conscious.
Maria Flor Rios holds her son Giovanni Gonzales as they stand in line with others waiting to sign up for health care insurance at the business office of Parkland Hospital in Dallas on Monday. Image via LM Otero/AP.
It's been two decades since Dr. Jim Withers first coined the term "street medicine," and he is still out there practicing what he preaches.
Despite the website glitches and non-stop disinformation, Americans have the next 24 hours to sign up for health care that will start on January 1st. If you haven't yet, maybe pencil in a 2-3 hour time slot (perhaps instead of watching your football team lose) to get health care.
Just days before the deadline to sign up for coverage, the Obama administration announced that the millions of Americans whose health care plans were canceled under the Affordable Care Act are now eligible for catastrophic coverage and will be granted an exemption from any health care-related penalties.
No one cares more about poor Americans than the Wal-Mart corporation does. That's why Wal-Mart is speaking up to say: The government must stop forcing Americans to waste money on health care, when that money could be spent buying crap at Wal-Mart.
