President Barack Obama speaks at a White House meeting with health groups Monday.
Promises to cut health costs in the future are a bit like protestations of love in the back seat of a parked car: No matter how heart-felt they…
If you paid for expensive auto repairs and the same problem recurred a few weeks later, you’d probably refuse to pony up for a second fix.
But what about medical care? What if you had surgery and, a few days after…
Doctors rush to treat a patient in a busy emergency room in this file photo.
People go into a hospital to get better, not worse. But sometimes care they receive harms instead of heals.
That happened 312 times in Minnesota last year;…
Post-Dispatch file photo
A new Congress convened in Washington this week with health reform among its top priorities. That means finding a way to cover the more than 46 million Americans who are uninsured — and helping millions of insured families…
The sticky issue of charity care — health care delivered by a hospital without the expectation of payment — got a lot of attention last week.
A circuit court judge in St. Louis, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and members of…
It started with an observation: Women in a maternity ward staffed by medical students were dying of infections at triple the rate of a similar ward staffed by midwives.
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis made a startlingly simple deduction. The women were getting sick,…
Nonprofit hospitals are increasingly demanding payment in advance for complex and expensive cancer treatments and other non-emergency care for life-threatening illness, the Wall Street Journal reports this week.
It highlights the story of 52-year-old Lisa Kelly of Lake Jackson, TX., who was…
