Award-Winning Health Journalism

The Price We Pay

The word Healthcare is seen listed on a stock ticker board. This represents that healthcare in the United States is a For Profit business and is traded on Wall Street

A snapshot of the United States’ healthcare financials Fact checked by Shannon Sparks Three-fourths of countries worldwide explicitly protect their citizens’ right to health in their constitutions. The United States is not one of them.  Not only is healthcare not considered a human right in the U.S., but insurance companies and their shareholders profit off […]

Undoing Debt

Gloria Austin. Photo by Jim Vondruska

As residents stress over unpaid medical bills, Illinois pilot programs pledge to abolish $1 billion of medical debt Fact checked by Jim Lacy Gloria Austin knew she had a problem when a red rash, a line around her stomach, appeared, as pain ramped up. The East Garfield Park resident was 62 at the time. After […]