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Farmers across Indiana can start applying for new specialized health plans. The Indiana Farm Bureau (INFB) rolled out the health care option to its…

Farmers across the Midwest are facing tight profit margins and rising healthcare costs. And that means some hold off getting medical treatment or forgo…

With a physician's decision to relocate, Lutheran Hospital effectively ends its heart transplant program on April 1.Officials with the Lutheran Health…

On July 18, WBOI hosted our quarterly Issues & Ales panel discussions at Calhoun Street Soups, Salads and Spirits.Our first hour focused on having the…

The point of insurance is to ensure that individuals who face a catastrophic event with high costs do not end up bankrupt and destitute. Leading up to the…

The “self-fulfilling prophecy” was a term first coined by Robert Merton: “a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the…

On Sept. 11th 2017, IPFW hsoted a panel discussion called Funding Healthcare. Panelists discussed what works and what doesn't work about the way the US…

As I wrote in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette earlier this week, there is something fundamentally undemocratic about the way that Senate Republicans are…

Lutheran Health Network is currently owned by Tennessee-based Community Health Systems, but a group of Northeast Indiana doctors wants to buy it from the…