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  • News

    May 23, 2012

    OptumHealth's Mad Medicine

    Pierce County's controversial privatization of mental-health services has driven some patients to extremes.

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Mad Medicine: Documents, Data, and Source Materials Referenced In This Week's Feature

    Our feature story this week -- "Mad Medicine" -- investigates the hidden costs of privatizing mental health in Pierce County, and describes how one Tacoma family became so frustrated with the system they ultimately sent their schizophrenic daughter to live with family in Iran and receive treatment t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Christine Gregoire Goes With Budget Negotiation Via Hostage Situation Strategy

    Pass new taxes or Gregoire will shoot this dog, whose name is "health care for kids".​Governor Christine Gregoire is holding a gun to the heads of 16,000 kids (or their health care plans anyway) and threatening to pull the trigger if law-makers in Olympia don't raise taxes during the next legi ... More >>

  • News

    March 1, 2006

    Losing the Patient

    Doctors can call the operation a success, and lawyers win key points of their case. But consumers get short shrift in the medical-malpractice bill.

  • News

    August 31, 2005

    Loophole Insurance

    A federal bill threatens our mental-health parity law.

  • News

    March 30, 2005

    Good Cop, Sad Cop

    Meet former King County Sheriff's Deputy Angela Holland. She was a great street cop with numerous commendations and a spotless record. But she was mildly bipolar, so they fired her.

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    Diagnosis: Hopeless

    Washington's health care system is not working for the poor, middle-class retirees, or doctors. Will any politicians respond to the impending crash?

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