April 15, 2022
Podcast host Joe Sparks highlights the testimony of economist Jeffrey Sachs during a recent U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on
Major Insurers Are Scamming Billions from Medicare, Whistle-Blowers Say
By John Tozzi
Bloomberg, April 12, 2022
Teresa Ross had been raising objections at work for months when her bosses brought in a psychologist hoping to make her
‘Apartheid’ Health Care? Why Medicaid Isn’t Cutting It for America’s Poor
This article includes audioBy Brenda GazzarCode Wack Podcast, April 4, 2022
Why should people who have great health insurance care about people who don’t? Listen
Medicare for All Explained Podcast: Episode 74
This article includes audioApril 2, 2022
Podcast host Joe Sparks highlights testimony from a recent U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on “Examining Pathways to Universal Health
10 administrators for every 1 doctor. We deserve a better healthcare system
By James Fieseher, M.D.
Foster’s Daily Democrat (Dover, N.H.), April 1, 2022
Our current model of healthcare was conceived in the late 1960s and launched during the
Medicare for All Is Not Enough
By David U. Himmelstein, M.D.; Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.; Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.; Don McCanne, M.D.; and John Geyman, M.D.
The Nation, March 31, 2022
We have
Covid-19 Coverage for the Uninsured Is Ending
By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.
The Nation, March 29, 2022
At the stroke of midnight last Tuesday, the US government stopped covering the cost of Covid-19 testing
A Banker in the Exam Room? The Growing Resistance to Medicare Privatization
By Brenda GazzarCode Wack Podcast, March 28, 2022
What does it mean to “privatize” Medicare? What’s ACO-Reach? Why does it matter? Who’s
How Medicare is Being Slowly and Quietly Put to Death
By Lee Russ
The Progressive, March 28, 2022
For some time now, the agency tasked with overseeing Medicare has been rather quietly killing the program. So quietly
It’s time to surgically remove the middle man
By Jay D. Brock, M.D.
Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance Star, March 24, 2022
“It is well known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles
Seniors’ Medicare Benefits Are Being Privatized Without Consent
By Matthew Cunningham-Cook
The Lever, March 24, 2022
A new Medicare privatization scheme developed under President Donald Trump and now being expanded under President Joe Biden is
Why doctors have stood against universal health care — and why that could be changing
This article includes audioWDET, Detroit Today, March 22, 2022
Many in this country struggle to understand their health care plan, and feel they don’t have much agency in choosing