Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance duri […]
It is a hospital's nightmare: The power goes out and backup generators don't kick in, leaving critically ill patients without the mechanical help they need to breathe. It happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, when hospital staff were on their own when electricity and water cut out. Some died. It happened last year in San
A man plays the piano at a nursing home in 2008 as resi […]
By Charles Ornstein and Lena Groeger In February 2011, a nursing home resident in Michigan wandered away in a blizzard, unnoticed by staff. He was wearing only pajama pants, a sweater, canvas shoes and a knit cap. A technician driving to work found him half an hour later at a busy intersection, wet and covered with snow, government inspectors
Congressman for Ohio Dennis Kucinich. (Photo by House C […]
For many people without insurance, a key question raised bythe Supreme Court's decision today to uphold the Affordable Care Act is whether states will decline to participate in the law's big Medicaid expansion. Although the court upheld the law's mandate requiring individuals to buy insurance, the justices said the act could not force states to
The American Pain Foundation has closed after an invest […]
By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein A version of this story was published in The Washington Post. As the U.S. Senate Finance Committee launched an investigation Tuesday into makers of narcotic painkillers and groups that champion them, a leading pain advocacy organization said it was dissolving "due to irreparable economic