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Blake Farmer

Recent Contributions

  • Families fear a ban on gender affirming care in the wake of harassment of clinics
  • Buy a rural hospital for $100? Investors pick up struggling institutions for pennies
  • As state medical boards try to stamp out COVID misinformation, some in GOP push back
  • Black-owned hospice seeks to bring greater ease in dying to Black families
  • Our whole family got breakthrough COVID at Thanksgiving. This is what we learned
  • The ER charged him $6,589.77 for 6 stitches, a cost that led his wife to avoid the ER
  • Hospital bills for uninsured COVID-19 patients are covered, but no one tells them
  • As COVID-19 vaccine trials move at warp speed, recruiting Black volunteers takes time
  • Insurers may only pay for coronavirus tests when they're 'medically necessary'
  • At least 9,000 U.S. health care workers sickened with COVID-19, CDC data shows