Hospices Have Become Big Business For Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care
Two-thirds of hospices, once primarily run by nonprofit entities, are now for-profit — and they are increasingly a target for private equity firms.
Markian Hawryluk of Kaiser Health News
Despite A First-Ever ‘Right-to-Repair’ Law, There’s No Easy Fix For Wheelchair Users
Some states aren't waiting as Congress decides whether to pass pro-consumer legislation to address wheelchair suppliers' failure to provide timely repairs.
Physicians Are Uneasy As Colorado Collects Providers’ Diversity Data
Shaunti Meyer, a certified nurse-midwife and medical director at STRIDE Community Health Center in Colorado, doesn’t usually disclose her sexual orientation to patients. But at times it feels appropriate.
To Be One In A Million: ‘Who Thinks It’s Going To Be You?’
The husband of an Oregon woman who died of a rare J&J vaccine side effect questions whether authorities have done enough to educate the public.
Other States Keep Watchful Eye On Snags In Washington’s Pioneering Public-Option Plan
With prospects dim for the U.S. to adopt a single-payer “Medicare for All” program, health care reform advocates turned instead to an insurance plan designed by the government that could compete with private insurance plans sold on the health care exchanges.
