Gretchen Morgenson

Feb 25, 2025 | yahoo.com | Gretchen Morgenson

When Molly Smith went for her first mammogram in 2021, she had reason to be wary. Her grandmother, mother, sister and another family member have all been diagnosed with breast cancer. The mammogram detected abnormal tissue — said Smith, 46, a mother of two from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — and more testing was necessary. To her great relief, Smith received a clean report following an ultrasound, MRI and biopsy. But she incurred bills of more than $1,000 that her insurance didn’t cover.

Feb 25, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Gretchen Morgenson

When Molly Smith went for her first mammogram in 2021, she had reason to be wary. Her grandmother, mother, sister and another family member have all been diagnosed with breast cancer. The mammogram detected abnormal tissue — said Smith, 46, a mother of two from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — and more testing was necessary. To her great relief, Smith received a clean report following an ultrasound, MRI and biopsy. But she incurred bills of more than $1,000 that her insurance didn’t cover.

Feb 4, 2025 | msn.com | Gretchen Morgenson

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Feb 4, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Gretchen Morgenson

During his 11 years as a Marine, Brenden Taylor and his family have moved several times. But when they left Okinawa, Japan, in 2022 for Camp Pendleton in Southern California, finding an affordable home to rent using his military housing allowance became an almost impossible challenge. Finally, they found something they could afford in Murietta, a 45-minute drive from the base. Rising rents are a problem for many families.

Jan 19, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Gretchen Morgenson

When a massive wildfire tore through Sarah Mapel’s Northern California neighborhood in the late summer of 2020, she considered herself lucky. Firefighters saved her historic home, built in 1898, using water from a nearby creek. But making her ash- and toxin-filled home safe to live in again turned into an epic, yearslong legal battle with her insurer: the California FAIR Plan Association.