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A lawsuit filed Thursday claims a nonprofit hospital in northwest Chicago failed to provide charity care to two low-income, uninsured patients, reopening a longstanding controversy in Illinois over whether hospitals are doing enough charitable work to qualify for lucrative tax exemptions.Swedish Cov

A social service group for performers is trying to increase the number of dancers with health insurance in Chicago. The Actors Fund says nearly one in every three dancers is uninsured.  

When it comes to last year's Affordable Care Act, there's not much people agree on. Except, says Kaiser Family Foundation President and CEO Drew Altman, this one thing: "It really does help the uninsured; 32 million uninsured people will get coverage."

Northwest suburban-based Allstate is hiking it's rates for Illinois homeowners. Allstate has nearly half a million home-owner policy-holders in Illinois.

There may be less choice when it comes to where patients get their healthcare.

When it comes to health care, it's generally the case that the care in wealthy countries is better than in impoverished ones.But a country's GDP only goes so far in predicting how things will go, as a survey of the some of best-off countries finds.Take a guess which rich country's health system prov

In Maryland, where I live, there's a 1 in 119 chance that I'll hit a deer with my car in the next year.Overall, there's a 1 in 183 chance of an American driver doing the same thing, according to claims data crunched by insurer State Farm.