Today on TAP: The Alabama Supreme Court decision on in vitro fertilization sends Republicans scrambling.
Health & Social Policy
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Company Behind Joe Namath Medicare Advantage Ads Has Long Rap Sheet of Misconduct
The firm formerly known as Benefytt pocketed millions selling sham insurance to seniors and other consumers.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Dealing With the Bad Stewards
Bailing out a critical Massachusetts hospital chain should come with some consequences for the financial operators who put them in that position.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Attack of the Straw Doctors
Amazon and the Adderall pill-mill lobby blitz Oregon to kill a (tame) ‘corporate practice of medicine’ ban.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump’s VA Plans Look Too Much Like Biden’s VA Reality
While Project 2025 plots VA dismantling, its Biden-appointed leader tells workers to ‘stay out of politics.’
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Reversing Private Equity’s Looting of Hospitals
The right remedy is to claw back the billion-dollar payday Cerberus Capital and other insiders took out of Steward Health Care and give the money back to the hospitals.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Big Tobacco Outmaneuvers the FDA on Flavored Nicotine Products
On menthol and disposable vapes, public-health activists say the regulatory agency is moving way too slow.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Bernie Sanders Isn’t Thankful for High Drug Prices
Another in a series of hearings with pharma CEOs takes place today.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
From Flint to East Palestine and Back
Ohio and Pennsylvania residents want the tools to study long-term health impacts from the 2023 freight train derailment. But East Palestine hasn’t seen the money.
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Casualties of a Failed Health Care System
Why even an elite Boston hospital can feel like a makeshift infirmary in a war zone
