Health Care Inequality Archives

How Charitable are Nonprofit Hospitals?

A new Health Affairs study finds that as nonprofit hospitals’ earnings grow, their charity care spending fails to keep pace.

The Biden administration is proposing new regulations to keep racial bias in AI from getting to the bedside.

Our annual look at some of the best health care podcast episodes of the year with help from a few of our podcast host friends.

We talk about the impact medical debt can have on people’s lives and what research tells us about possible solutions.

Adam Gaffney looks at new research linking hospitals to racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality.

Jamie Song describes new research on how the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index relates to risks of getting and dying from COVID-19.

Rachel Werner on new research looking at which patients have struggled to take advantage of telehealth during the pandemic.