Healthcare

Private equity firms have acquired 400 US hospitals since 2018. The model: strip assets, cut staff, extract management fees, declare bankruptcy. The patients left holding claims on facilities that were looted.

Church messaging that reframes abortion as always murder is creating fear in pregnant women who need medical care. Miscarriage, ectopic pregnancies, and maternal complications are suffering when patients distrust their doctors.

The latest CMS rule changes adjust reimbursement rates in ways that look modest on the spreadsheet and look like extinction at the rural clinic level. I see this every day in mine.

A new study identifies a hidden Alzheimer's risk factor threatening millions of older Americans. The real story is the $360 billion caregiving burden crushing working families while Congress funds drugs they will never afford.

An operator I track as CRIMSON LATTICE has been working healthcare payer networks since early February. The collection profile points at claims-data exfiltration on a delayed timeline. I am withholding the implicated vendor.

State medical licensing boards resist updating credentialing requirements for telemedicine. Regulatory lag prevents adoption of remote care at scale.

While legacy media chases the same tired narratives, a name trending across America points to something the press establishment would rather ignore: people are paying attention to who controls their health.

Early detection breakthroughs for Alzheimer's are real and promising. The political class needs to stop treating medical research like a cable news segment.

Democratic strategists built a political universe where women are a monolith waiting to be frightened into the right column. Republican women are dismantling it.

Two years after the PACT Act, wait times are longer, claim backlogs are deeper, and the only thing that changed is the user interface. Mission failed.

A new study on hidden Alzheimer's risk factors just dropped. Before you share your health data to help researchers, ask who else gets access to it.

An Estée Lauder executive dead at 39 in her own home. The tragedy is real. So are the questions it should be prompting about how we treat high-achieving people's health.

The FDA's ham-fisted push on hormone therapy has created shortages for women who depend on estrogen patches. This is bureaucracy as healthcare policy, and it's failing real patients.

The Guthrie sisters left a card at their mother's memorial. Two months in, and the institutions meant to help families in crisis have done almost nothing.