International surrogate-pregnancy business booms. What is Medicare anyway? Five ways to cut health-care costs. And playing Medicare ‘Whac-A-Mole’
A pick of the best articles about health from this week: Rick Santorum’s war on contraception, the “Fat Trap” that makes is so hard to lose weight, and even with health care reform millions will remain uninsured.
What’s a person, exactly? Could Herman Cain get health insurance today? A new approach to caring for the elderly?
Breast cancer has become a big business. Healthcare and the poor in Texas. A place of the autistic in the adult world. Taming the Medicare ‘monster.’ Living longer, but better?
Healthcare.gov provides detailed cost and benefit information about plans available in the individual insurance market, the first time such data have been made public.
The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form, available in Washington state, allows patients to summarize their wishes regarding life-sustaining treatment.
Seniors who hit the coverage gap in their Medicare drug plans and must use their own money to buy drugs are facing price jumps far outpacing inflation.
Indian Health Service is responsible for the health care of 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives.
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
Some insurers deny ER coverage to people who have been drinking
Laws in more than half the states permit insurers to deny payment for medical services related to alcohol or drug use. Faced with the prospect of not getting paid for care, some ER personnel sidestep the problem by simply not testing patients’ blood or urine for alcohol.
Travel insurance can protect your wallet — and your health on vacation
Think your regular health insurance policy will cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas?
Don’t bet on it.
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