Leaders are worried some of the sector’s persistent challenges — like finance pressures and worker burnout — could worsen ...

Sanders reaffirmed that the United States must break away from a dysfunctional system that allows insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry to make huge profits and that the country must ...

No one asks questions when illness strikes. Everyone’s preoccupation is with treatment and cure. But shock commonly follows in the form of onerous medical debt — sometimes to the tune of hundreds of ...

Healthcare quality varies dramatically across the globe, with some nations establishing themselves as gold standards while ...

High pharmaceutical spending is due to both the prices of drugs and utilization. United States healthcare spending increased by 7.5% in 2023* to $4.9 trillion, which is 17.6% of the gross domestic ...

A unique Harvard program trains future physicians to recognize structural failures embedded within our health care system.

Fifteen years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, our failing health care system is exposed with all its cruel denials, disease, despair and death at the hand of the investor-owned companies ...

Senate Democrats proposed ending the government shutdown on Friday in exchange for a one-year extension of health care tax credits. In a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Bernie Sanders accused ...

Patients are increasingly experiencing what’s known as administrative harm – those unintended but very real consequences ...

MaineHealth apologized after a computer malfunction sent 521 death notifications to living patients Oct. 20. Apology letters are being sent to all affected patients.

Iowa issued a request for proposals in July to explore privatizing prison health care, but it now says it won't award a contract to any of the vendors.