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ANALYSIS: Opaque transparency from the health insurance industry

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Insurers crying foul over new rules for premium hikes

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U.S. states step up oversight of health insurance companies' rate increases

By Alexandra Duszak

Analysis — Insurers lobbying on the fine print may erase consumer protections

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: The profit in keeping you ignorant

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Health insurers try to fool Congress with fuzzy math

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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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

Analysis — Insurers’ ‘friends’ will influence public option debate in Conn.

By Wendell Potter

Health insurers in Connecticut will call on some of their longtime allies to help turn the public and state lawmakers against the idea of cr

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ANALYSIS: Connecticut's insurers are flexing their muscles at the statehouse

By Wendell Potter

Analysis — Fear and loathing over a public insurance option in Hartford

By Wendell Potter

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

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Could nonprofit health insurance plans be the real reformers?

By Wendell Potter

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Analysis — Fear and loathing over a public insurance option in Hartford

By Wendell Potter

Will a "public option" have a better chance in Hartford than in Washington? Not if the insurance companies have anything to say about it. ..

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ANALYSIS: Connecticut's insurers are flexing their muscles at the statehouse

By Wendell Potter

Analysis — Insurers’ ‘friends’ will influence public option debate in Conn.

By Wendell Potter

OPINION: Could nonprofit health insurance plans be the real reformers?

By Wendell Potter

Mass. health law may bode well for federal law

By The Associated Press

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

Analysis – One year later, health reform a law worth keeping

By Wendell Potter

Is the health care reform law a good deal for Americans or is it so badly flawed that Congress should repeal it?...

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OPINION: don't raise the Medicare eligibility age

By Wendell Potter

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

By Wendell Potter

Hospital 'facility fees' boosting medical bills, and not just for hospital care

By Fred Schulte

45 million Americans without health insurance

By The Center for Public Integrity

Analysis — Death panels, fact and fiction

By Wendell Potter

“Death panels” are back in the news and Congress is turning its attention to them once again. The problem is, lawmakers are looking in all t

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ANALYSIS: Death panels real and imagined

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Why the 'safety net' can't keep up with medical needs of uninsured Americans

By Wendell Potter

Stimulus funds will build state health exchanges but might not sustain them

By Josh Israel and Kimberly Leonard

OPINION: Guess who would benefit from privatizing Medicare?

By Wendell Potter

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