Medical credit cards shift the burden of medical financing onto unsuspecting consumers who could have qualified for other means of payment.
Health & Social Policy
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It Takes a Village for Elder Care, Too
The toll that caring for aging parents takes on their children can be allayed only by expanding our caring networks.
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The Rise of Italian Post-Fascism
Historian David Broder talks about the roots and career of Giorgia Meloni.
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Quackonomics
Medical Properties Trust spent billions buying community hospitals in bewildering deals that made private equity rich and working-class towns reel.
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The New Minnesota Vikings
Progressives in the North Star State have racked up a remarkable set of victories.
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Trans Rights in Finland
Transphobes cite Finland as proof that trans activists have gone too far. It isn’t true.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
So Long but Not Farewell to Envision
The private equity–owned ER doctor practice, now headed to bankruptcy, was one of the defining companies of 21st-century American medicine.
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Regulators on the Verge of Bungling Drug Price Reform, Advocates Say
The starting point for negotiations with drug companies on prescription prices could end up being the too-high prices patients already live with.
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A Progressive Approach to Crime in Philadelphia
Helen Gym is running for Philly mayor without giving in to war-on-crime temptations.
