Leslie Walker

Cheap, effective generic drugs underpin U.S. health care. Now they're under threat

Health / April 29, 2024

How do you help patients who show up in the ER 100 times a year?

Health / March 14, 2024

Poor, sick Hoosiers are stuck in a Medicare-Medicaid maze. A new bill proposes a fix

Health / September 21, 2023

How millions of the country's poorest, sickest patients get trapped between Medicare and Medicaid

Health / July 27, 2023

Medicare will begin historic negotiations with pharma to reduce drug prices. It's complicated

Health / June 15, 2023

What the rapid rise of a private Medicare alternative could mean for the program’s future

Health / April 17, 2023

Medicare's hospice experiment: Putting private insurers in charge

Health / January 27, 2023

America's best-selling drug finally goes generic

Health / November 10, 2022

A researcher's quest to make end-of-life care more equitable for Black Americans

Health / October 14, 2022

How COVID reignited turf wars among doctors, nurses and other health workers