Health shrinkflation: Patients wait more for less, Axios, September 3, 2024, by Tina Reed
The U.S. spends more on health care than almost anywhere else. But
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Saving Private Practice
Is private practice collapsing? Congress can help stem the tide, AMA, August 23, 2024, by Tanya Albert Henry
It’s time for lawmakers to recognize the threats
The Pursuit of Single Payer: Toppling, or Tipping Point?
Comment:
By Jim Kahn, M.D., M.P.H.
This morning, as I pondered writing a broad update on our quest for single payer, I realized that the movement in
Public Opinion on Health Reform
Bernie Sanders: Democrats should run on a progressive economic agenda. Americans are ready., The Guardian, August 5, 2024
Bernie Sanders: In order to combat a political
Project 2025 Health Policy Critique Redux
The goal today is to provide maximally digestible and clarifying responses to this deeply problematic but often obscure agenda. There remains a fair amount of
Cost-Sharing, Coverage Denials, Missed Care, & Medical Debt
Unforeseen Health Care Bills and Coverage Denials by Health Insurers in the U.S., The Commonwealth Fund, August 1, 2024, by Avni Gupta, et al.
Americans are
Not-for-Profit Care Begets Profits
Why Many Nonprofit (wink, wink) Hospitals Are Rolling in Money, The Washington Post, July 22, 2024, by Elisabeth Rosenthal
One owns a for-profit insurer, a venture
Medicare for All Prospects in a New Presidential Administration
Where Kamala Harris stands on health care issues, The Hill, July 22, 2024, by Nathaniel Weixel
While running against Biden in the 2019 Democratic primary, Harris
Three Crumbling Health Insurance Pillars
Healthcare Affordability and Value Indexes 2021-2024, West Health-Gallup, July 2024
Cost security among U.S. adults dipped to its lowest level ever in 2024, down 6 points
Critiquing Project 2025: Medicare
Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, April 2024, The Heritage Foundation & partner organizations, Chapter 14: Department of Health and Human Services
Medicare (p.
FTC: PBMs Inflate Drug Costs & Punish Local Pharmacies
Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug Costs and Squeezing Main Street Pharmacies, Interim Staff Report, Federal Trade Commission, July 2024
Executive Summary:
PBMs [negotiate] the
Critiquing Project 2025: Private Health Insurance
Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, April 2024, The Heritage Foundation & partner organizations, Chapter 14: Department of Health and Human Services
Affordable Care
