July 15, 2024
Podcast host Joe Sparks laments the growing use of artificial intelligence to deny claims in the so-called “Medicare Advantage” program—a technological advance that
Posted
This article includes audioJuly 15, 2024
Podcast host Joe Sparks laments the growing use of artificial intelligence to deny claims in the so-called “Medicare Advantage” program—a technological advance that
Posted
By Hayden Rooke-Ley, J.D., Soleil Shah, M.D., and Erin C. Fuse Brown, J.D., M.P.H.
The New England Journal of Medicine, July 6, 2024
UnitedHealth Group has recently
Posted
This article includes audioJune 15, 2024
Podcast host Joe Sparks highlights PNHP’s latest report, “Taking Advantage: How Corporate Health Insurers Harm America’s Seniors.”
He cites the many ways that so-called
Posted
By Jake Johnson
Common Dreams, June 10, 2024
A new academic analysis published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine details the enormous sums that privatized Medicare Advantage plans have cost U.S. taxpayers in recent
Posted
This article includes audioMay 15, 2024
Podcast host Joe Sparks cites a recent MedPac report to Congress, which found that patients in so-called “Medicare Advantage” plans could have been
Posted
Money as Medicine – Clinicism, Cash Transfers, and the Political-Economic Determinants of Health, New England Journal of Medicine, April 10, 2024, by Eric Reinhart
[HJM bolding]
Clinicism
Posted
This article includes audioWRFG Atlanta, May 8, 2024 ... (interview starts at 5:37)
PNHP national board member Jonathan Michels and Will Cox discuss their recent piece in Jacobin, “The UAW’s
Posted
By Patrick Rucker and David Armstrong
ProPublica, co-published with The Capitol Forum, April 29, 2024
In late 2020, Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave
Posted
This article includes audioApril 15, 2024
Podcast host Joe Sparks relates a recent experience filling a prescription at Costco to remind us that corporate health insurers add nothing of
Posted
By Jonathan Michels and Will Cox
Jacobin, March 31, 2024
Fresh off their historic labor victory against the country’s Big Three automakers, the United Auto Workers (UAW)
Posted
By Elizabeth O’Brien
MSN, March 20, 2024
Marcia Mantell won’t be eligible for Medicare for a few years yet. But she’s sure of one thing: Pitchmen like
Posted
This article includes audioMarch 15, 2024
Podcast host Joe Sparks reiterates some of the major benefits of single-payer reform. Improved Medicare for All would:
Save money by reducing administrative