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Marshall Allen on How Insurance Brokers Undermine Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
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Jeffrey Billman
Your Health Insurance--and Your Health--Can Depend On Where You Live
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Teresa Carr
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Your Health Insurance--and Your Health--Can Depend On Where You Live
Teresa Carr
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Why Won't Insurance Cover the Medication Your Doctor Prescribed?
Michael Schroeder
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Americans Owe $140 Billion in Medical Debt. The People Who Collect It Say It’s Not Their Fault.
Jeffrey Billman
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Your Health Insurance--and Your Health--Can Depend On Where You Live
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When Healthcare and Financial Aid Aren't Available at the Touch of a Computer Keyboard
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Americans Owe $140 Billion in Medical Debt. The People Who Collect It Say It’s Not Their Fault.
What To Do When a Medical Debt Collector Comes Calling
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Jeffrey Billman
Medical Debt, By the Numbers
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Got a Medical Bill in the Mail? Don't Pay It Until You Read This Book
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Lynda Gorov
Turning No Into Yes: How to Fight Your Health Insurance Company and Win
Explainers
Deborah D. Gordon
Surprise Hospital Bills Will End Soon. But — No Surprise — Protecting Patients Is Still Complicated and Political
Features
Jeffrey Billman
Her Brain Cancer Diagnosis Was Terrifying. So Are the Bill Collectors Who Keep Calling.
Features
Jeffrey Billman
When Pharmacy Middlemen Save on Medicines, Why Don't You Save Money, Too?
Explainers
Michael Schroeder
Hate Fighting With Your Insurer to Get Medicines and Treatments Covered? Imagine How Your Doctor Feels
Features
Jeffrey Billman
Is “Experimental” Just Another Way For Your Insurer to Deny Coverage? Medical Experts Wonder, Too.
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Deborah D. Gordon
Can't Meet Your Deductible? Insurers Are Using a Loophole to Make it Even Harder
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Rachel Murphy
An Unflinching Look at America’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Q&As
Pamela Ferdinand
Words You Dread Hearing From Your Health Insurer -- And What To Do Then
Explainers
Michael Schroeder
Real Deals on Health Insurance You Can Afford and Actually Use -- At Least For Now, Via the ACA
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Jeffrey Billman
Dad Was Hit With a Four-Figure Copay. Harbor Path Got Him the Drug For Free
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Natalie Kostich
How to Find Affordable Insulin
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Giles Bruce
What to Do When You Can’t Afford a Cancer Drug
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Michael Schroeder
You Pay a Lot For Insulin, But Who Gets Paid?
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Giles Bruce
Millions of Low-Income Americans Could Get Medicaid Under the ARPA – If Politics Don’t Get in the Way
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Deborah D. Gordon
What Does the American Rescue Plan Act Mean For You?
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Jeffrey Billman
How to Save Money on Medical Bills By NOT Using Insurance
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Michael Schroeder
TikTok Eye Doc Prescribes Jokes With a Sarcasm Supplement
Q&As
Elizabeth Austin
Buying Medications From Another Country Can Be Cheaper Even With Insurance
Explainers
Virginia Pelley
What’s In That Prescription Medicine Bottle?
Q&As
Jeffrey Billman
Twitter Helped Shame a Health Insurer Into Giving a Dying Man His Prescribed Drug
Q&As
Lynda Gorov
Go Fund Me: America’s Healthcare System of Last Resort
Features
Jeffrey Billman
Step Therapy: When Insurance Decides Which Drug You Get First
Features
Jeffrey Billman
How to Write a Letter of Appeal to an Insurance Company
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Jodi McCaffrey
Who Doesn’t Need Help Deciphering Health Insurance?
Q&As
Teresa Carr
How to Read Your EOB, and Why You Should
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Michael Schroeder
A Woman Who Wouldn’t Take No From Her Health Insurance Company
Features
Jeffrey Billman
Right There in the Name: An Arm and a Leg
Q&As
Lynda Gorov
How to Read Your Medication Label
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Michael Schroeder
Harbor Path: A Straight Path to Free Medicines
Features
Lynda Gorov
How to Save Money on Prescription Drugs
How-tos
Tiffany Onyejiaka
Charles Magatti: A Scientist Whose Big Discovery Was Nothing To Sneeze At
Features
Teresa Carr
PBMs: The Secretive Middlemen for Insurance and Drug Companies
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Tom Culman
Denied: How To Appeal an Insurance Company Decision
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Jodi McCaffrey
Health Insurance Issues: It's Not Always Time to Call a Lawyer, but Sometimes It Is
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Julie Fenyes
5 Things a Good Prescription Drug Plan Should Include
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Tiffany Onyejiaka
Tips for Doctors and Healthcare Providers on Talking Money with Patients
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Deborah D. Gordon
Tips for Consumers on Talking Money with Their Doctors
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Deborah D. Gordon
Discussing Prices and Payment is Hard: Doctors and Patients Need to Do It Anyway
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Deborah D. Gordon
What's the Difference Between Generic, Brand-Name and Biosimilar Drugs?
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Tom Culman
Did you know?
Increasing out-of-pocket costs by just $10 per prescription causes a 33% rise in mortality because fewer patients take the drugs their doctors prescribe.
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research, https://www.nber.org/papers/w28439
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