Fainting in America
Kirk Nielsen takes the pulse of the nation's emergency health care costs by passing out and getting gouged.
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Everyday Miracles
It's not sexy enough to make a Grey's Anatomy episode, but better primary health care would save a lot of money — and lives.
Just Cause for Great Alarm
In a Miller-McCune.com interview, Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund explains why tackling poverty, education and health care during this financial crisis makes economic sense.
Memorable Stories of 2008
A host of meaningful stories from Miller-McCune.com's first full year on the Web.
Health Care After You Leave the Doctor’s Office
Community-based outreach to address diabetic health care disparities offers broader lessons.
Evidence of a Need for Change
How likely is it that you will receive treatment the medical literature says is best? Flip a coin. Evidence-based health care can improve those odds, save lives and cut health care costs dramatically.
Death by Pink Slip
A film on a health care system that impoverishes and kills people, just because they lose their jobs.
Software Helps Insurers Profit from Denials
New York's attorney general investigates possible fraud in an industry built on denying care, and two U.S. representatives want Medicare to have no part in it.