Erick Vertein lost his home when an insurer declined his mental health leave request, for one reason
Thousands of court records analyzed by the Journal Sentinel show, there’s an incentive to tip the scale toward an insurer and recommend denials.
Health Insurance and Costs
Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies.
A laundromat in Smith River became a crucial entry point for reporting on undocumented farmworkers' health care access in California's rural north.
Open records requests revealed something that I didn’t expect to find. I assumed that state health agencies handled state health programs. I was wrong.
Good mining jobs with good benefits can counterintuitively hurt access to care.
For nearly two decades, the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program in Texas has filed repayment claims against Medicaid recipients after they die, threatening the inheritances of vulnerable Texans.
Vaping and other smokeless alternative forms of nicotine have proliferated as cigarette substitutes, creating in turn new types of addiction in adolescent users.
President Biden decided to put off a plan to ban menthol cigarettes until March after several civil rights groups argued that the ban would unfairly target African Americans.
He says treatment can help unhoused people, survivors of domestic violence.
More than half of Nevada counties do not have a hospital that provides routine labor and delivery and is without an OB-GYN. The first story to kick off the series: The Long Road to Maternal Care.