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Even Doctors Like Me Are Falling Into This Medical Bill Trap
Thank goodness for urgent care centers. Last July, my daughter was still limping a week after a bike injury and we needed a quick X-ray to rule out a fracture. As a doctor, I knew we didn’t need an expensive emergency room for something this ...
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Real Estate
Where Should You Raise Your Children?
A new study ranked 180 U.S. cities for parenting based on relevant data.
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Foster Care and Child Welfare
Readers discuss a guest essay about removing children from troubled homes.
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Business
Walmart Is Shutting Health Centers After Plan to Expand
The 51 locations, next to Supercenters, proved too costly to be profitable, the retailer said.
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World
Maximizing Profits at the Patients’ Expense
More from our inbox: The Brave Trump JurorsBlack Voters ‘Want to Be Courted’ by DemocratsBetter Than DebatesCredit...NATo the Editor: Re “Patients Hit With Big Bills While Insurers Reap Fees” (front page, April 7): Chris Hamby’s investigation ...
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World
A Companion on the Road to Recovery
By around 2 p.m., just after lunch, activity at the critical care unit of the Jayadeva hospital in Bengaluru, India, is at an ebb. No one is running down the halls with X-rays, bills or samples of body fluids to be tested. The morning rounds are over ...
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World
Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty
He has an easy smile, blue eyes and a life-threatening bone infection in one arm. Grateful for treatment, he jokes with the medical intern each morning. A friend, a fellow doctor, is supervising the man’s care. We both work as internists at a public ...
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World
Biden Administration Finalizes Rule Curbing Use of Short-Term Health Plans
The new regulation reverses a Trump-era policy that expanded access to health plans with fewer benefits than those sold on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces.
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Abortion Law Is Far From Settled
In his majority opinion in the case overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the high court was finally settling the vexed abortion debate by returning the “authority to regulate abortion” to the “people and their elected ...
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Insurance Companies and the Prior Authorization Maze
More from our inbox: Elect the U.S. Attorney GeneralFriendship MemoriesA Leadership Gaptranscript ‘What’s My Life Worth?’ The Big Business of Denying Medical Care Insurance companies have weaponized a seemingly benign process to protect their ...