Finding health insurance prices for care is an ordeal : Shots
Insurers are complying with federal rules aimed at price transparency that took effect July 1, but consumer use of the data may have to wait until private firms synthesize it.…
Catholic hospitals’ growth impacts reproductive health care
PUTNAM, Conn. (AP) — Even as numerous Republican-governed states push for sweeping bans on abortion, there is a coinciding surge of concern in some Democratic-led states that options for reproductive…
WHO assesses barriers to primary health care in North Macedonia
On 7 June 2022, WHO and the Ministry of Health of North Macedonia convened a range of stakeholders, including local and national authorities, international agencies, and civil society organizations, to…
When medical care became too expensive in the U.S., this borderlands family went to Mexico
The Fierro family of Yuma, Arizona, had a string of bad medical luck that started in December 2020. That’s when Jesús Fierro Sr. was admitted to the hospital with a…