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
Medicare for All Explained Podcast: Episode 112
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
A $600 Billion Swindle: Study Makes Case to ‘Abolish’ Medicare Advantage
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
A $600 Billion Swindle: Study Makes Case to ‘Abolish’ Medicare Advantage
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
Medicare for All Explained Podcast: Episode 111
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
Labor Forum with Dianne Mathiowetz
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
A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.
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
Medicare for All Explained Podcast: Episode 110
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
Big corporations are quietly taking over your medical practice. Some doctors and experts say it’s ruining healthcare.
By Shelby Livingston
Business Insider, April 11, 2024
Big businesses such as hospital systems, insurers, and PE firms are gobbling up medical clinics.
Some doctors and
Protecting public health care from private investors
By Danyaal Raza, M.D., M.P.H. and Karen S. Palmer
Toronto Star, April 9, 2024
Private equity investment firms exist to make money for their investors. It’s their
Do No Harm
By Judith Weinstein
Chicago Health, April 8, 2024
The day that physician residents and fellows at Northwestern Medicine voted 794 to 148 to unionize, some shared their
The UAW’s 2028 National Strike Should Center Medicare for All
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)