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Health Care Services Sector

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    New York Hospitals Bilk Poor People Out of Money: Report

    ​Some New York hospitals are in the business of screwing over poor people as much as they are in the business of providing healthcare, a new report has found. According to the Community Service Society, most of the state's medical centers tend to violate debt collection regulations -- which p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    Pre-Roe v. Wade, Abortion in NYC Still Difficult in 1970

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 42 The New Abortion Law: Back to the Quacks By Robin Reisig If you need an abortion after next Monday, when New York City's new health code on abortions becomes law, you may find yourself driven back to " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Go To Prison, Get A Nightline Puff Piece? Does Ted Koppel Know About This?

    ​Here's a challenge: try to imagine a major network television news program -- one with a long, storied reputation for hard-hitting journalism -- assigning a reporter to follow around OJ Simpson's current love interest (whoever that might be), in order to drum up sympathy for how difficult lif ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Rich Con's and Wife's Heartbreaking Story on Nightline

    ​"Once the toast of Birmingham, Alabama, worth some $300 million," wealthy televangelist and HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy was accused of fraud and convicted (not of the fraud, but of bribery on an earlier charge) and had to pay $2.8 billion to shareholders and go to prison. ABC's Nightline ... More >>

  • Music

    July 1, 2009

    The Sacred Bones Label Finds Shades of Dark

    ​"Once the toast of Birmingham, Alabama, worth some $300 million," wealthy televangelist and HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy was accused of fraud and convicted (not of the fraud, but of bribery on an earlier charge) and had to pay $2.8 billion to shareholders and go to prison. ABC's Nightline ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2009

    CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

    Go channel surfing at the theater

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2008

    Clip Job: The City’s First Addicts' Center

    Go channel surfing at the theater

  • News

    May 13, 2008

    Home Alone—With Medicaid Fraudsters

    In a $30 million home health-care scam, some well-connected names

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2007

    Public Advocate Gotbaum Calls For Phoenix Death Probe

    In a $30 million home health-care scam, some well-connected names

  • News

    May 29, 2007

    Crazy Behavior

    Staff, not inmates, at Brooklyn's biggest psychiatric ward

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1983

    Staff, not inmates, at Brooklyn's biggest psychiatric ward

  • News

    June 14, 2005

    Senator = Fat Cat

    Frist, other esteemed leaders present their wallets for your perusal.

  • News

    May 27, 2003

    Hospital Holiday

    Study Finds Poor Oversight of a Billion Health Care Dollars

  • News

    January 8, 2002

    Mayor’s Choice

    Bloomberg Backs a Bold New Abortion-Training Plan

  • News

    June 26, 2001

    Ambulance Wars

    How Private Ambulance Crews Steer Patients Away From Public Hospitals

  • News

    May 23, 2000

    Catharsis or Collapse

    Did Cancer or Character Kill Rudy's Run for the Senate?

  • News

    February 8, 2000

    Diversionary Tactics

    City Ambulances Head Toward Privatization

  • News

    December 7, 1999

    Pataki May End Your Life Early

    A Grave Threat to Our Hospitals

  • News

    November 30, 1999

    The Uncovered

    How New York’s Uninsured Really Survive

  • Long Island Voice

    November 23, 1999

    EMERGENCY

    How New York’s Uninsured Really Survive

  • News

    August 24, 1999

    Service Interrupted

    The crisis at North Central Bronx Hospital

  • News

    March 30, 1999

    Profit and Loss

    Why the U.S. gets so little bang for its health care buck

  • News

    February 23, 1999

    Uneasy Exits

    Hasty discharges may put Manhattan Psychiatric Center patients at risk

  • News

    June 9, 1998

    The Outpatient is In

    A New Harlem Clinic May Be a Litmus Test for the Future of City Health Care

  • News

    May 19, 1998

    Starve and Sever

    Is the Mayor Trying To Get Out of the Hospital Business?

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