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Does Financial Regulation Kill Jobs?

Perhaps Not! By Marian Wang ProPublica, Sept. 12, 2011, 1:20 pm With the presidential campaign in motion, and President Obama urging immediate passage of his new jobs bill, the attention in Washington...

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Health-Care Reform Rules Would Restrict Public Reporting

 Information Restricted to “qualified entities” Only By Marshall Allen ProPublica, Sept 15th, 2011, 10:46 am It’s estimated that hundreds of thousands of patients die annually from preventable harm...

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Injured War Contractors Sue Over Health Care

And … Disability Payments By T. Christian Miller ProPublica, September 27, 2011, 10:11 am   Private contractors injured while working for the U.S. government in Iraq and Afghanistan filed a class...

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Pfizer’s Latest Twist on ‘Pay for Delay’

Protecting Brand-Named Drugs By Marian Wang ProPublica, November, 14th, 2011, 2:41 pm Pharmaceutical companies have sought for years to protect their expensive brand-name drugs by paying generic rivals...

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Drug Companies Reduce Payments to Doctors as Scrutiny Mounts

Dollars for Doctors [How Industry Money Reaches Physicians] Part of a year-end series on major investigations By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein ProPublica, January 3rd, 2012, 2:55 p.m. Some of the...

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Physicians Taking Stock of the “Stock Act”

  A Side-by-Side Comparison By Lena Groeger ProPublica The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, or Stock Act, recently passed in both the House and Senate. The new law would make it easier for...

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What’s at Stake in the Supreme Court’s Health Care Decisions?

On the PP-ACA By Lena Groeger ProPublica Yesterday, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments on the health care reform law. So, in this essay, we made a map of the possible outcomes following the...

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The Best, Most Revealing Reporting on Our Healthcare System

Reading and Reviewing By Blair Hickman and Cora Currier ProPublica,  March 30, 2012, 1:44 pm As we wait for the Supreme Court to issue its verdict on the health-care reform law  we rounded up some of...

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Introducing the ProPublica Patient Harm Community

By Daniel Victor and Marshall Allen ProPublica, May 21, 2012, 2:32 p.m. On Facebook You could fill a baseball stadium many times with the people who experts say die each year from an error [1], injury...

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How Health Reform Could Expand Medicaid

PP-ACA Results State-by-State By Lena Groeger ProPublica Experts estimate that nearly 16 million Americans could be added to the Medicaid rolls by 2019 under an expansion in the Affordable Care Act....

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Death Takes a [Variable Annuity] Insurance Policy

How a Lawyer Exploited the Fine Print and Found Himself Facing Federal Charges By Jake Bernstein / @Jake_Bernstein / ProPublica The Industry The life insurance industry tried to make variable...

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Where the Presidential Candidates Stand on Medicare and Medicaid

The Big Picture View By Suevon Lee ProPublica, Sept. 14, 2012, 2:26 p.m. Medicare and Medicaid, which provide medical coverage for seniors, the poor and the disabled, together [1]make up nearly a...

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How Bad Is Our National Debt Problem, Anyway?

And … Will a Deal Fix It? By Theodoric Meyer ProPublica, Dec. 28, 2012, 12:34 p.m. President Obama will meet with congressional leaders today [1] in another attempt to avert the fiscal cliff — the...

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A Graphic Guide to the Sequester

By Christie Thompson [ProPublica, Feb. 28th 2013, 3:24 p.m] There’s been a lot of talk of the looming budget cuts that, without a last-minute deal, must go into effect by 11:59 p.m. ET tomorrow night....

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How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional

The IRS Controversy By Kim Barker and Justin Elliott ProPublica, May 17, 2013, 5:14 p.m. The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by...

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Health Data Breaches Multiplying

YET – Fines Remain Rare By Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein [ProPublica] Federal health watchdogs say they are cracking down on organizations that don’t protect the privacy and security of patient...

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The Surgeons Scorecard

Coming Soon: ProPublica’s Surgeon Scorecard *** *** Millions of patients a year undergo common elective operations – things like knee and hip replacements or gall bladder removals. But, there’s almost...

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How Companies Value Body Parts?

A ProPublica Price Check By Lena Groeger and Michael Grabell @lenagroeger and @michaelgrabell    ***                       ProPublica...

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Government Report Finds 92 Percent of Nursing Homes Employ Convicts

A ProPublica Report By Marian Wang ProPublica, March 3, 2011, 3:24 p.m. NOTE: A few years ago, ProPublica published this essay. Has anything changed, since then? About 5 percent of nursing home...

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Why You CAN’T Turn Your Roth IRA Into a Billion-Dollar Tax Shelter

By Nadia Sussman, Sherene Strausberg and Justin Elliott ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your...

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