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Writing Your Way Through Cancer

Earth, wind, sky, clouds, rocks Have me, If you will. This body — no longer young Not quite old. From the Earth we come, (capital E) To the Earth we’ll return. When Lynn Scozzari wrote the beginning lines of that poem, “The Offering,” in 2013, she was staring at a photo of a naked woman seated on a rock, her arms thrust open to a valley below. Scozzari herself was in a conference room of the cancer center at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, Calif., seated at a table stocked with coffee and tissues.

Aug 25, 2017

Medicare Unveils ‘Skeletal’ Site For Hospice Comparison Shopping

Aug 18, 2017

Doctors Warm To Single-Payer Health Care

Aug 16, 2017

CBO: Killing Cost-Sharing Subsidies Would Hike Silver Plan Premiums And Deficit

Aug 16, 2017

Hospitals Slashed Use Of Two Heart Drugs After Huge Price Hikes

Even before media reports and a congressional hearing vilified Valeant Pharmaceuticals International for raising prices on a pair of lifesaving heart drugs, Dr. Umesh Khot knew something was very wrong. Khot is a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, which prides itself on outstanding heart care. The health system’s pharmacists had alerted doctors about the skyrocketing cost of the drugs, nitroprusside and isoproterenol. But these two older drugs, frequently used in emergency and intensive care situations, have no direct alternatives.

Aug 10, 2017

Despite Insurers’ Tactical Win On ACA’s Cost-Sharing Payments, Uncertainty Lingers

Aug 3, 2017

In Strong-Arm Tactic, Trump Puts Congressional Health Benefits Into Play

Aug 1, 2017

Whistleblowers: United Healthcare Hid Complaints About Medicare Advantage

Jul 28, 2017

McCain Votes No, Derails ‘Skinny Repeal’ In Marathon Session

Jul 28, 2017