Topic: HEALTH CARE COSTS

Medical Billing (Getty Images)

NY surgery provider sues 300 patients

Fred Schulte - KFF Health News
People wait in line to be tested for COVID-19 at Union Station on January 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. A free distribution of COVID rapid test kits for those who received vaccination shots or booster shots was also held nearby in Union Station. Thirty new deaths and over 37,000 new cases of COVID-19 were reported by Los Angeles County amid the continued spread of the Omicron variant. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

COVID-19 testing fraud rampant

Anjeanette Damon - ProPublica
Doctor Walking In Hospital Corridor (Getty Images / Bernard Van Berg / EyeEm)

Private equity's takeover of healthcare

Fred Schulte - KFF Health News
People wait for eye exams at a Remote Area Medical Clinic (RAM) on February 03, 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Knoxville's ingrained health inequality

Noam N. Levey - KFF Health News
Young pregnant woman being examined during pregnancy while coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

Private equity in the maternity ward

Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
Medical Billing (Getty Images)

Private companies see profit in eye care

Lauren Weber - KFF Health News
Shop selling coffins and funeral wreaths (Getty Images/urbazon)

Business booms in the death industry

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
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Lawmaker pushes mental health reform

Samantha Young - KFF Health News
American VS Canadian Hospitals (Getty Images/Salon)

US health admin costs 4X more vs. Canada

Igor Derysh
Healthcare costs and fees (Getty Images/Prapass Pulsub)

America's real health care emergency

Bob Hennelly
FILE - In this June 14, 2011 file photo, various prescription drugs on the automated pharmacy assembly line at Medco Health Solutions in Willingboro, N.J. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (AP)

Trump endorses drug importation

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Cory Booker; Elizabeth Warren; Joe Biden; Kirsten Gillibrand; Bernie Sanders (AP/Getty/Salon)

Dem voters: health care is a top issue

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
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2020 Dems must refute Good Economy myth

John Atcheson
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Is the hospital overcharging you?

Stephanie Booth - Healthline
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. (AP)

Protecting against "surprise" med bills

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
Breast cancer survivors walk on the field before an NFL game (AP/Seth Wenig)

The cost after breast cancer treatment

Ann Pietrangelo - Healthline
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Should doctors give you money back?

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Jen Jolliffe, 55, poses outside her home in Anchorage, Alaska. Jolliffe, an acupuncturist, works from home with her boyfriend, Andrew Hawk, 52, a gunsmith. Both receive health care coverage through the ACA and are concerned about what a GOP plan for health coverage would mean for them. (Ash Adams/Kaiser Health News)

JoNeal Aleccia - KFF Health News
EpiPen 2-Pak (EpiPen.com)

Drugs and privilege

Michael Winship - BillMoyers.com