Macy Alcido is a former writer for Forbes Health, based in New York City. She discovered her love for health reporting while attending the Columbia Journalism School, and has since contributed ...

The U.S. health care reimbursement system was built for a different era — one that prioritized high-stakes “cure” interventions over the nuanced “care” interventions better suited to the ongoing needs ...

The Military Health System is one of the largest integrated health care systems in the United States. It is composed of a “direct care” system of military treatment facilities managed in a federated ...

Coming off the deadly pandemic, health care has taken center stage as a global issue. While the U.S. is facing health care struggles that include increased maternal mortality and lower life expectancy ...

Be Caring is the UK’s largest employee-owned social care provider. Employee ownership means it is structured in a ...

On Halloween, my sixteen-year-old daughter slipped and fell on some broken glass. She came home from a party with a nasty-looking gash on one of her fingers, and I persuaded her to go to a local ...

Amid the election-year debate over the future of health care in America, the PBS NewsHour explores the state of the U.S. health care system and how it compares to others worldwide. Houston, Texas, ...