Health Care

With 60 percent of bankruptcies caused by medical bills, performer Michael Milligan joins the host to discuss his new play “Mercy Killers.”

The US healthcare system costs each of us about twice as much as those in other wealthy countries.

Dean Baker and Jeremy Holden discuss two federal courts decisions which could disqualify lower and middle income earners for subsidies and the forces working to dismantle Obamacare.

Death fuels demand for emergency access to medical marijuana for critically ill patients in New York.

The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.

“Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA” takes up where Rachel Carson left off - and the news is not good.

A recent US Supreme Court ruling weakening the unions of state-funded workers limits the ability of many domestic workers who care for our most vulnerable to win higher pay, …

From Jun. 30 to Jul. 1, 800 health experts, officials and activists will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the third Partners' Forum around the Action Plan for Women's …

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the government may not require certain businesses to provide their employees with health insurance that covers contraception which offends the owner's religious beliefs.

If the Indian drug industry makes the patent system unviable, we may finally adopt a 21st century system for financing the development of new drugs.