#access to care

A letter from 124 patient groups urges the White House to make drugs more affordable—and spells out how it can do so.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should hit pause on a proposal.

Language barriers, loneliness, difficulty accessing food and medicine, and unfamiliarity with new technology are major issues.

Plus: Any restriction of civil and political rights must meet these five specific criteria.

They began their national health summit in DC by honoring a trans woman recently murdered in Puerto Rico.

Adults with chronic liver disease are more than twice as likely than those without the condition to have barriers to medical care.

Many people take control of their own health and their own destiny to survive hep C. This is one person’s story of how she survived hep C.

And yet, you have until December 15 to enroll in Obamacare for coverage beginning January 1.

However, many providers did not see such benefits—raising questions about whether drug pricing deals improve access to care.

Amazon’s Alexa Skills Kit is a health care game change.

Insurance companies can no longer implement harmful co-pay accumulator policies.

Alexa can now securely transmit and receive personalized medical information.

In fact, we borrowed $88 billion last year. Yet a new survey finds “a great political divide” in our satisfaction with health care.

Doctors are finding ways to diagnose and treat this difficult-to-reach demographic.

Health care facilities serving people who use drugs are well-positioned to initiate hepatitis C testing. But ’they don’t.

We will never end the HIV and hepatitis epidemics by preventing people with preexisting conditions from accessing care.