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

August 15, 2024

Podcast host Joe Sparks highlights the story of U.S. Olympian Ariana Ramsey, who availed herself of free health care services

Building Bridges, WBAI Pacifica Radio, August 5, 2024

PNHP national board secretary Dr. Ed Weisbart discusses his recent piece in Common Dreams,

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

The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, August 1, 2024

PNHP national board secretary Dr. Ed Weisbart discusses his recent piece in Common Dreams, “To Win ‘Medicare for

By Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.
The Nation, July 31, 2024

President Biden’s exit from the Democratic ticket and Vice President Kamala Harris’s emergence as the presumptive nominee

By Ed Weisbart, M.D.
Common Dreams, July 30, 2024

Fifty-nine years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law—a high-water mark in the fight for universal

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

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

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

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

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 Advantage—the privatized Medicare plans run by insurance