The price of mental health: ‘therapy is not a magic wand’
Jenn, a 26-year-old New Yorker who goes to therapy every week, first asked her parents for therapy in high school
The price of mental health: therapy was ‘the best chance I had of feeling OK’
JE, a 29-year-old waitress in New York diagnosed with manic depression, says that, thanks to regular therapy, she is ‘in a really stable place’
Is therapy worth the cost? ‘At its best, it’s paying for a friend’
John, a 27-year-old New Yorker, started going to therapy after a painful heartbreak and says he found it ‘vital’ to working through his feelings
Is therapy worth the cost? ‘I got what I needed’
Eve, a 33-year-old New Yorker, spent almost a year in therapy before she got up the courage to leave her job. ‘Mostly she made me talk it out’
Republicans hope latest anti-Obamacare bill will be first to reach president’s desk
Decision to hold another seemingly meaningless vote comes ahead of more serious threat to the Act – the supreme court’s hearing of King v Burwell case
The best and worst of worlds: Tehran’s public hospital wards
Visiting her father, our correspondent talks to patients and staff as ‘Rouhani-Care’ raises expectations
Kaiser and the state of mental health care: ‘This is a corporation that has lost its moral compass’
A week-long strike by employees of the California-based medical care provider brought attention to the struggles of people suffering from mental health problems to find adequate care. The problem, protesters say: insufficient funding
Private health insurance premiums could rise 7% from April
Tony Abbott says it is unlikely the government will interfere, as it continues negotiations over cuts to Medicare rebates
Farage says UK will have to consider NHS funded by private insurance
Ukip leader Nigel Farage’s comments to BBC reignite 2012 row caused by him saying healthcare should be market-funded
As Sussan Ley tries to patch the cuts to Medicare, the question is: why?
If the health minister takes a good look at Medicare she’ll find it’s not bleeding profusely after all