New research out Friday is the latest to paint a depressing picture of the U.S. health care system. The study found that nearly half of older Americans are worried about their ability to afford health insurance by the time they retire, while one-fourth aren’t sure they’ll have insurance within a…
A heartbreaking number of Americans know someone who has died after not being able to afford medical treatment, according to the results of a new Gallup survey out Tuesday. Within the last five years, it found, some 34 million Americans believe they’ve lost someone in exactly that way, and even…
When Americans go to the doctor, there’s a medical code that determines how their treatment gets billed. Getting treated for urban rabies? Well, that’s distinct from woods-based sylvatic rabies, and the invoice will reflect that. Until today, the system in the US was the same one they used in the…