Medical Debt Far Bigger Than Previously Known, Especially In States Not Expanding Medicaid

 Americans Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140 Billion by Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz.  The New York Times.  July 20, 2021.  

Uncertainty About Trump's Position On Covid Relief Bill Is Delaying $9 Billion In State Vaccine Funding

 Trump's Threat To Veto Covid Relief Bill Is Holding Up $9 Billion In State Vaccine Funding by Noah Higgins-Dunn.  CNBC.  December 24, 2020.  

Vaccine Maker Stock Transactions Raise Concerns

 "Bad Optics" Or Something More? Moderna Executives' Stock Sales Raise Concerns by Tom Dreisbach, NPR.  September 4, 2020.  

Coronavirus Bringing About Deeper European Economic Integration

The European Union Is On The Brink Of Historic Change by Ferdinando Giugliano.  Bloomberg. May 27, 2020.

Hospital Revenue Plunges As Focus Shifts From Lucrative Surgeries To Coronavirus Victims

Hospitals Knew How To Make Money.  Then Coronavirus Happened by Sarah Kliff.  The New York Times.  May 15, 2020.

Athens Mayor, Businessman, And Other Georgians Offer Perspective On A Consequential Tradeoff

Georgia's Experiment In Human Sacrifice by Amanda Mull.  The Atlantic.  April 29, 2020.

Fed Coronavirus Relief Effort Includes Buying Municipal Bonds To Help State And Local Government

Fed Programs Could Inject $2.3 Trillion Into The Economy by Jeanna Smialek.  The New York Times.  April 9, 2020.  

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Fed Addresses Coronavirus With Unlimited As Necessary Programs To Help Market Functioning

The Federal Reserve Just Pledged Asset Purchases With No Limit To Support Markets by Jeff Cox.  CNBC.  March 23, 2020.

Crowdfunding For Medical Treatments That Are Not Backed By Science

Crowdfunding Drives Funds And Attention Toward Questionable Medical Treatments by Rachel D. Cohen.  National Public Radio.  January 2, 2019. 

CVS And Aetna: Better Care Or Better Moneymaking?

CVS And Aetna Say Merger Will Improve Your Health Care.  Can They Deliver?  by Reed Abelson and Katie Thomas.  December 4, 2017. 

Doctors And Hospitals Say 'Show Me The Money' Before Treating Patients

Doctors And Hospitals Say 'Show Me The Money' Before Treating Patients by Michelle Andrews.  Kaiser Health News.  December 6, 2016

Educational Initiatives Not Enough To Stop Low Value Care; Financial Incentives Needed

Reducing Healthcare Waste:  Don't Expect Patients To Take the Lead by Peter Ubel.  Forbes.  March 25, 2061

Case Of Cancer Fundraising Fraud Shows How Illness Provides Criminal Opportunities For some

Major Cancer Charities Shut Down Amid $187 Million Donation Scam by Liz Fields.  Vice.  May 20, 2015. 

Georgia Per Capita Spending On Public Health Exceeds Mississippi But Less than Half Of Alabama; Overall Ranking: 37th

Delivery Units In Georgia Hospitals Continue To Close; Rural Areas Hit hardest; Only 75 Of 180 Hospitals In Georgia Have Delivery Units

2 More Hospitals Closing Baby Delivery Units by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  April 13, 2015. 

Money Found To Be Top Stressor: APA

Money Tops Americans' List Of Stressors by Dennis Thompson.  HealthDay/US News.  February 4, 2015.

Financing Health Costs With The Power Of A Crowd

Managing Health Costs With Crowdfunding by Constance Gustke.  The New York Times.  January 31, 2015.

Survey: Affordable Care Act Is Improving Financial Security; Financial Distress Declining

Signs Of A Decline In Financial Distress Connected To Medical Bills by Margot Sanger-Katz.  The New York Times.  January 15, 2015.

Walgreens Eyes Global Pharmacy Expansion With Acquisition of Alliance Boots

Walgreens Closes Deal, Begins New Era In Global By Bruce Japsen.  Forbes  December 31, 2014.

With Rural Georgia Hospitals In Crisis, Panel Doesn't Discuss Medicaid Expansion

State Panel Meets Over Ailing Rural Hospitals by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  November 20, 2014.