Healthcare Systems & Policy

More than one in four West Virginia fifth-graders are now obese. One in four already has high blood pressure. What's their future going to be?

The nurse wheeled my young friend Alexander’s gurney into the emergency room. As she walked away from him, she shot out a parting remark: “This is how you lose a leg – or your life.”

Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Poverty and Class

The court ruled that the individual mandate was constitutional, defining it as a tax, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the more liberal justices in the majority. However, the court limited the federal government's power to cut off Medicaid money going to states....

Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Poverty and Class

With the Supreme Court poised to issue its ruling on “Obamacare” any day now, many of us find ourselves wondering whether our nation’s highest court will ...make it MORE difficult for this country to achieve what virtually every other industrialized nation already guarantees as a fundamental human r

Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Poverty and Class