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ANALYSIS: The 'clear obscurity' of the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

Health insurance industry follows E.B. White's advice to be clearly obscure

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Insurance brokers seek health reform change to safeguard profits

By Josh Israel

OPINION: Health care's community-based beginnings

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: 'Occupy Wall Street' should also take aim at health insurance companies

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: How our health care system cripples small business

By Wendell Potter

Proposed bill aims to expand health IT funds to mental health providers

By Kimberly Leonard and Josh Israel

Stimulus bill left many providers out, but costs of including them may doom the measure....

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Health information technology: Incentives may not always serve intended purpose

By Josh Israel and Kimberly Leonard

Hospitals request government help in curbing possible billing abuses

By Fred Schulte

Analysis — A Canadian-style single-payer health system in Vermont?

By Wendell Potter

GOP senators call for overhaul of electronic health records program

By Fred Schulte

Will digital technology reduce gap in health between rich and poor?

By Emma Schwartz

Two years ago, the Ethio American Health Center opened its doors in the nation’s capital, promising the country’s largest community of Ethio

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Are new digital networks part of the cure?

By Emma Schwartz

ANALYSIS: A smart investment in kids' health

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Despite GOP claims, U.S. health care nowhere near 'best' in the world

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Imagine primary care without the need for costly health insurance

By Wendell Potter

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Telehealth bill aims to expand health IT access for home care providers

By Kimberly Leonard and Josh Israel

A proposed new Senate bill would give home care providers in rural areas access to Medicare payments for audio and video home monitoring. ..

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Fuzzy math? Rising costs in government's digital health stimulus

By Fred Schulte

ANALYSIS: Park City vantage point puts tragedy of American health care in vivid relief

By Wendell Potter

Excluded groups want in on health information technology funding

By Kimberly Leonard

Doctors skittish about health technology despite promise of big federal bucks

By Susan Jaffe

Emergency room visits up 11 percent in last decade; health care reform could drive numbers higher

By Laurel Adams

More than 100 million people seek help in emergency rooms, a number that could rise as health care reform kicks in

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At Appalachian Fairgrounds, charity tries to fill gaps in health care

By Lagan Sebert

In health care, number of claims denied remains a mystery

By Danielle Ivory

ANALYSIS: Imagine primary care without the need for costly health insurance

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Ripple effect of 'cost-shifting' uncompensated medical care

By Wendell Potter

Analysis — A Canadian-style single-payer health system in Vermont?

By Wendell Potter

A new governor in Vermont is boldly declaring his intent to look at a Canadian-style single-payer health care system....

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ANALYSIS: The battle for Vermont's health

By Wendell Potter

Proposed bill aims to expand health IT funds to mental health providers

By Kimberly Leonard and Josh Israel

45 million Americans without health insurance

By The Center for Public Integrity

OPINION: Physicians' group will barnstorm conventions with truth-telling on ObamaCare

By Wendell Potter

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Analysis — ‘Reframing’ the debate to make insurers look poor

By Wendell Potter

While the country was struggling to emerge from a recession, and more and more of us were struggling with no medical coverage, the big for-p

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ANALYSIS: Insurers value profits over people

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: 'Occupy Wall Street' should also take aim at health insurance companies

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: The profit in keeping you ignorant

By Wendell Potter

Aetna, Humana, other insurers mull new group to influence November races

By Peter H. Stone

A single-payer plan for Vermont

By Wendell Potter

While some states are suing to halt health care reform, Vermont is moving forward with a single-payer plan

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ANALYSIS: Losing the public relations war

By Wendell Potter

Emergency room visits up 11 percent in last decade; health care reform could drive numbers higher

By Laurel Adams

ANALYSIS: The battle for Vermont's health

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: An abiding faith in reform

By Wendell Potter

VA medical centers in hot water for failing to follow sterilization training

By Laurel Adams

GAO says some VA medical centers aren't following strict sanitation guidelines for reusable medical equipment

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ANALYSIS: How our health care system cripples small business

By Wendell Potter

45 million Americans without health insurance

By The Center for Public Integrity

ANALYSIS: The battle for Vermont's health

By Wendell Potter

Proposed bill aims to expand health IT funds to mental health providers

By Kimberly Leonard and Josh Israel

Federal judge with medical industry investments rules against health care law

By Laurel Adams

U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who ruled Monday that the health care reform law is unconstitutional, holds financial investments in healt

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A single-payer plan for Vermont

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: An abiding faith in reform

By Wendell Potter

Emergency room visits up 11 percent in last decade; health care reform could drive numbers higher

By Laurel Adams

ANALYSIS: 'ObamaCare' label is sticking

By Wendell Potter

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