Valerie June appears in PSA for health care pricing transparency
In a PSA for Power to the Patients, Memphis singer-songwriter Valerie June joins fellow Tennessee artist Jelly Roll and Grammy-winning country singer Lainey Wilson to advocate for transparency in health care pricing. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)
“Hospitals and insurers are robbing all of us,” said Valerie June, a Memphis singer-songwriter who has firsthand experience with medical debt. “We demand actual prices.”
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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