Critics of expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are jumping on a new study released Thursday that undermines a chief argument for boosting the rolls of the government health insurance program for the poor. The study, published in the journal Science, found that newly insured Medicaid recipients visited emergency departments significantly more than the […]
Back in March, a leading obstetrician-gynecologists group questioned the use of surgical robots for routine hysterectomies, citing a study that found robots led to no better results than other procedures but cost much more. “There is no good data proving that robotic hysterectomy is even as good as—let alone better—than existing, and far less costly, […]
A Michigan woman is going head to head with the country’s Catholic hospitals, claiming she was denied proper treatment following a miscarriage. Tamesha Means visited Mercy Health Partners in Muskegon, Michigan, when her water broke at just 18 weeks of pregnancy, according to a press release from the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed a […]
