Stories by Maggie Mahar

Bill Moyers teams up with financial journalist Maggie Mahar and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney to bring you the truth about America's health-care system.

Those who believe we don't need to invest in modernizing the system are fooling themselves.

We are accustomed to living in a sharply tiered society, but it doesn't have to be that way with health care.

A recent documentary shows how fat prejudice is keeping even some doctors from understanding obesity.

If health care reform is done in a way that contains costs and lifts quality, it will take time and serious seed money.

A new report reveals the degree to which a child's health is determined by the hand he or she draws at birth.

The results of over half of all clinical trials on drug safety and effectiveness are not published within five years of the drug going on the market.

Business school graduates have replaced doctors and public health experts as CEOs of hospitals, often at patients' expense.

Doctors are getting fed up with private insurers. Here's a look at what out-of-pocket costs could look like for patients.