Health Insurers Are Using Your Online Shopping Cart and Zip Code to Determine Your Rates
Insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about things like race, marital status, how much TV you watch, whether you pay your bills on time or even buy plus-size clothing.Scanrail/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and NPR.…
He’s Running as a Hero of the Opioid Epidemic. Here’s the Catch.
Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ/ZUMA; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid calls to “drain the swamp” and “reinvent” Washington, Patrick Morrisey—the West Virginia Republican running for US Senate—often brags that no one has done more than he has to address the state’s devastating opioid epidemic. Since first working on opioid issues in 2013,…
Doc Gave Me a Startling Look Into the Opioid Crisis. Then He Was Gone.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Julia Lurie, Mother Jones reporter: When I first met Doc and Dre last August, they thought I was an undercover cop, or maybe a heroin user who was just getting started. They were standing with a group of guys under an awning on a gray, humid…
“This Is Devastating”: a Top Reproductive Health Researcher Talks About Kennedy’s Retirement
A large crowd on the sidewalk at the steps in front of the Supreme Court Building as the Court’s decision on Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt was about to be announced. Evan Golub/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Now that Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, vacating…
America’s Largest Doctor’s Group Calls for a Ban on Assault Weapons
CherriesJD/Getty/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The biggest group of physicians in the US called for a ban on assault weapons this week, reiterating that gun violence is a serious public health crisis and decrying proposals by the Trump administration to arm school teachers. Though many members of the American Medical…
Suicide Rates Are Up in Almost Every State, and Donald Trump’s Policies Are Not Going to Help
Mother Jones; Cheriss May/NurPhoto/ZUMA; CDC Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A week after the back-to-back suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain renewed the national conversation over mental health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released numbers showing that America’s overall suicide rate has climbed by a whopping 30…