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Staff and volunteers distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to people as they remain in their vehicles at The Forum in Inglewood Tuesday. The Forum is one of five mass-vaccination sites that opened Tuesday in Los Angeles county. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Dying on the waitlist

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Health benefits brokers will have to disclose what they receive from the insurance industry

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“Trumpcare” doesn’t exist. But Facebook and Google cash in on misleading ads for “garbage” insurance

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FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. The canceled federal conference on climate change and health problem is back on but apparently minus the federal government. Former Vice President Al Gore, the University of Washington, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the American Public Health Association are resurrecting a climate change and health conference set for next month that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had planned then canceled in December. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) (AP)

Internal emails reveal how chaos at the CDC hindered the response to coronavirus

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You might be buying a hand sanitizer that won’t work for coronavirus

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A healthcare worker prepares to transport a patient on a stretcher into an ambulance at Life Care Center of Kirkland on February 29, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. Dozens of staff and residents at Life Care Center of Kirkland are reportedly exhibiting coronavirus-like symptoms, with two confirmed cases of (COVID-19) associated with the nursing facility reported so far. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

U.S. hospitals say they’re ready for coronavirus. Their infection control violations say otherwise

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FILE - This Aug 4, 2011 file photo shows the Cigna logo at the headquarters of the health insurer Cigna Corp., in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (Associated Press)

Behind the scenes, health insurers use cash and gifts to sway which benefits employers choose

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You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true

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In financial crisis, Montana grandma beats health care cost

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From ministry to muckraking: The biblical basis for investigative reporting

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Health insurers are vacuuming up details about you — and it could raise your rates

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Why your health insurer doesn’t care about your big bills

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Unnecessary medical care is more common than you think

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Senators introduce bill to reduce “completely preventable waste”

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America’s other drug problem: Prescriptions are being wasted while the needy are shut out

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What hospitals waste: Why is the nation’s health care tab sky-high?

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Risky business: Will President Trump’s ban cause foreign-born doctors to look elsewhere?

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So much for Hippocrates: Why docs won’t reveal each other’s mistakes

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Texas court rules hospital must give woman her dead husband’s heart

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Compounding the meningitis outbreak

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Why can’t medicine seem to fix simple mistakes?

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Linda Carswell poses at the Langham High School track by a memorial plaque for her husband. Her lobbying and testimony played a crucial role in the Jerry Carswell Memorial Act, a new informed consent for autopsies bill passed in Texas this year. (Sharon Steinmann/ProPublica)

Widow refused husband’s heart

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