health care

TL/DR - Healthcare was a key issue addressed by Oklahoma U.S. Senators James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin upon their return to Washington after surveying storm damage. Lankford criticized UnitedHealth and its CEO, Andrew Witty, for their response to a data leak and detailed rural Oklahomans' struggles with using Medicare Advantage. Mullin…

TL/DR - A February cyber attack on Change Healthcare, a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary that processes insurance claims, disrupted healthcare payments across the US. Over 80% of hospitals said their cash flow was affected by the incident, and the government responded by ensuring Medicare payments were made promptly. Now, Congress is launching…

TL/DR - The Dying Broke series has highlighted the financial burden of long-term care in the United States, generating over 4,200 comments from readers, many of whom shared personal experiences of the hardships of caring for elderly relatives. Many readers criticized the for-profit nature of American medicine and the long-term care industry for…

TL/DR - Black women in the US are over 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, a statistic that has largely remained the same for a decade, according to the American Cancer Society. Factors contributing to this disparity include biological differences such as aggressive forms of breast cancer, inadequate insurance coverage,…