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Senator Ted Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, giving a presentation on his healthcare proposal in June 1971. Six years earlier he assured us that the change in our immigration laws would not be a problem or have an adverse effect…

Registered nurse Suzanne Hsu adjusts the robotic arms of a da Vinci surgical robot before an automated calibration of the machine at the Helford Clinical Research Hospital at City of Hope in Duarte, Calif., in 2006. Hospitals around the…

A growing number of expectant mothers are among the migrants pouring in daily from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador — even Haiti — to more than 30 already overflowing shelters in Tijuana, Mexico. Photo credit: Heidi de Marco/KHN TIJUANA…

After months of closed-door meetings and high-profile hearings, the Senate Finance Committee voted 19-9 to advance legislation introduced by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to rein in drug costs in the Medicare and…

One of the most significant proposals would cap price increases on brand-name drugs and biologic drugs covered by Medicare to ensure they do not outpace inflation, and triggering rebates when they do. File photo: Pixabay. WASHINGTON -…

After reporting by KHN, NPR and CBS, Fresenius has agreed to waive Sovereign Valentine’s huge bill for out-of-network dialysis care. Photo credit: Tommy Martino for KHN. PHILADELPHIA, PA –  Fresenius, one of the two largest…

HOLLYWOOD, FL - What comes unlawfully across the porous southern border, and with whose agenda is that in line, which seems to explain their intransigent opposition to finishing the construction of the border wall? Large quantities…

The Broward County Sheriff's Office lost its law-enforcement accreditation due to the offices botched responses to two deadly mass shootings between 2017 and 2018 when the Commission for Florida law enforcement accreditation ruled in a 13…

Sovereign Valentine and his wife, Jessica, wait for a dialysis machine to filter his blood. Before finding a dialysis clinic in their insurance network, the Valentines were charged more than half a million dollars for 14 weeks of the…

Extreme weather due to climate change can exacerbate pollution runoff and toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes. Photo credit: Jacob/Adobe Stock. NEW YORK - A coalition of more than 160 local, state and national environmental groups…