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The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission released data in December that show that of 158 transactions involving health care providers between 2013 and 2022, 71 involved private equity firms, 29 ...
A health-care worker in Merritt, B.C., is raising concerns over a policy that she says discriminates against some wheelchair users in long-term care in the province.
A group of protesters -- some wheelchair-bound or wearing medical devices -- were dragged away by police outside of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office.
Governor Maura Healey hopes to tackle the staffing crisis plaguing social service care providers with a big investment in the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. The office’s proposed ...
As Uber rolls out a service to allow health care services rides to patients, it faces a new lawsuit alleging it does not provide enough wheelchair-accessible vehicles in major cities.
These gaps in health care access mean there’s high demand for items as small and inexpensive as bandages, to large pricier items like motorized wheelchairs, which can cost anywhere between ...
For a quarter of a century, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni, a professor of medicine at Harvard, has heard the same story during research with hundreds of people who have disabilities: Health care that was ...
Each time Krista Sweet visits Belize to help train health-care workers and fit children with wheelchairs and walkers, she's reminded of how people with few material assets can survive. Sweet, a ...
About 12 million Americans qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid, and they face relentless red tape accessing health care. A bipartisan fix that could help them is in the works.
Just when you thought this whole health care situation couldn't get any worse – it got worse. On Sept. 25, protestors were forcibly kicked out of a Graham-Cassidy health care hearing.
On Monday, Capitol police forcibly removed protesters, including several in wheelchairs, from the hearing on the Republican-proposed health care bill cosponsored by Senators Lindsey Graham and ...