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Social Justice

Never Before Has Our Approach to Drugs Improved So Much, So Fast

We're winning: More progress has been made toward enlightened drug policies and treatment in the past five years than in the previous 25. Here's an advocacy agenda to take us even closer to the future we need.

Maia Szalavitz

Social Justice

New Rules for Non-Profit Hospitals That Sue Patients

Non-profit hospitals get big tax breaks for providing care for patients who can’t afford it. Under new IRS rules these hospitals must take extra steps to inform poor patients they may qualify for financial assistance.

Paul Kiel

Social Justice

Health Care Is a Huge Business, but It’s Not the Doctors Who Are Making the Most Money

The anti-Obamacare rhetoric has railed against a “government takeover” of medicine but it’s not the government that’s coming between doctors and patients, it’s the insurance companies.

Jay Livingston

Social Justice

The High Cost of Living With Cancer

The biggest pharmaceutical companies are celebrating huge profits while their patients struggle to afford their cancer-fighting drugs.

June M. McKoy

Social Justice

Judging Obamacare: How Do We Know If It’s a Success or a Failure?

Sign-ups were supposed to formally end yesterday, and attention is shifting from marketing to measuring whether the law is meetings its goals.

Charles Ornstein

Social Justice

During Final Obamacare Push, Is There Anything Worth Celebrating?

A fellow at American Enterprise Institute faults steps by the Obama administration to delay parts of the Affordable Care Act, saying they amount to dismantling the program in ways that will make it harder to sustain.

Charles Ornstein

Social Justice

What You Need to Know for When a Health Insurer Denies Your Claim

The chances for getting a denied claim reversed have always been better than you might suspect. But your odds are even better now that Obamacare has standardized the appeals procedure.

Jesse Cheng

Social Justice

How California’s Insurance Enrollments Beat Healthcare.gov

Covered California exec predicts peak enrollments in mid-December: “There will be some people who have price bumps. That is unfortunate.”

Charles Ornstein

Social Justice

How the Patients Most in Need of Insurance Are Getting Squeezed by Health Care Delays

Many state and federal insurance pools covering patients with pre-existing conditions are set to close December 31, but it’s an open question whether patients will be able to find policies on Healthcare.gov in time.

Charles Ornstein