Carla and John Jordan thought they were prepared if one of their family members became sick. The family had insurance through Carla’s employer, which they believed would cover them...
Photo by Heidi de Marco/KHN Kylah Goodfellow Klinge, who has battled Type I Diabetes since her early 20s, wrote a piece for STAT where she recounted her experiences with...
A new study has found that while the number of emergency room visits has stayed consistent, the cost of these visits has nearly doubled, The Houston Chronicle reports. In...
A new Missouri law aims to protect consumers from Anthem’s emergency room policy, News-Leader reports. The controversial policy, which CQC has previously reported on, states that consumers’ claims...
A little more than a year after Nick Williams was diagnosed with ALS, he had to leave his job of 14 years as a high school wrestling coach....
Nathaniel Killgore, born with hemophilia, was in the process of moving to a new state when he began to bleed internally in his knees and arms. Killgore was in...
Amanda Schornhorst wasn’t too alarmed when she felt a lump in her breast. Six years prior, she had been diagnosed with cysts, WTHR reports. She expected a mammogram to...
Photo by Heidi de Marco/KHN Tammy Oliver was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer in 2015. Her doctors told her there was not much they could do, but she started...
Scott Kohan was brutally attacked in January. When he came to, after the attack, he was laying in an emergency room. The attack had left him unconscious and he...
Jim Burton was working in his garage when he felt a pain in his back and dropped to his knees. Burton contacted a friend who is an EMT, who...