By Cara Michelle Smith
Salon, September 3, 2024
Something still hauntsĀ Ed Weisbart, MD, from his days in the health insurance business.
It was 1999, and Weisbart was the
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By Cara Michelle Smith
Salon, September 3, 2024
Something still hauntsĀ Ed Weisbart, MD, from his days in the health insurance business.
It was 1999, and Weisbart was the
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By Fred Schulte
CBS News via KFF Health News, August 28, 2024
A decade ago, federal officials drafted a plan to discourage Medicare Advantage health insurers from
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This article includes audioBuilding Bridges, WBAI Pacifica Radio, August 5, 2024
PNHP national board secretary Dr. Ed Weisbart discusses his recent piece inĀ Common Dreams,
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By Amos Barshad
The Lever, August 2, 2024
On a chilly Monday night in January 2019, Kamala Harris was in Des Moines, Iowa for a CNN town
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This article includes audioThe Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, August 1, 2024
PNHP national board secretary Dr. Ed Weisbart discusses his recent piece in Common Dreams, āTo Win āMedicare for
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By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.
The Nation, July 31, 2024
President Bidenās exit from the Democratic ticket and Vice President Kamala Harrisās emergence as the presumptive nominee
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By Ed Weisbart, M.D.
Common Dreams, July 30, 2024
Fifty-nine years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into lawāa high-water mark in the fight for universal
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By Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, Casey Ross, and Lizzy Lawrence
STAT News, July 25, 2024
UnitedHealth Group started out as a small, Minnesota health insurance company and
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By David Lipschutz
Center for Medicare Advocacy, Special Report, July 18, 2024
At a time when over half of all Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage
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This article includes audioJuly 15, 2024
Podcast host Joe Sparks laments the growing use of artificial intelligence to deny claims in the so-called āMedicare Advantageā programāa technological advance that
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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
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By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H., David U. Himmelstein, M.D., and Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.
The Nation, July 1, 2024
Medicare Advantageāthe privatized Medicare plans run by insurance