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
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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
Critiquing Project 2025: Medicaid
Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, April 2024, The Heritage Foundation & partner organizations, Chapter 14: Department of Health and Human Services
Medicaid Reform
Critiquing Project 2025
Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” released in April, threatens to replace modern American values with a retrograde vision. This 900-page action plan
Urgent Care Price Gaming
Even Doctors Like Me Are Falling Into This Medical Bill Trap, The New York Times, Op-Ed, June 17, 2024, by Danielle Ofri
Last July, my daughter
Time, Supply, and Single Payer
Supply-Side Healthcare?, Phenomenal World, May 9, 2025, by Adam Gaffney
The politics of hospital care and construction
As some pundits tell it … “supply-side” competition-based expansion is
Medical Debt, U.S. Pandemic
The State of Medical Debt in the U.S., (2-hour video with ten experts), Lown Institute, May 20, 2024, Website article by Noelle Serino
Medical debt has
The Many Disadvantages of Medicare Advantage
Commentary:
By Ed Weisbart, M.D., PNHP National Board Secretary
Our health is just an innocent bystander in the wake of damage the corporate insurance industry is inflicting
Surgeon General Muddled Insights on Health Reform
Former U.S. Surgeon General: We’re Not Ready as a Nation for Single-Payer Healthcare; High Medical Debt ‘Obliterating Our Country’s Future’, MedPage Today, June 4-5, 2024,
Health Care Cost Burden for Privately Insured
Financial Burden of Health Care in the Privately Insured US Population, JAMA Internal Medicine, May 28, 2024, by Sukreth A. Shashikumer, et al.
Improving health care
Medicare Advantage Profits Decline, Patients at Risk
The Medicare Bubble Has Burst; Government health-insurance program had been a gold mine for private insurers until recently, Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2024, by
Saving Veterans Health Care
Privatization Warning, The American Prospect, April 11, 2024, by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early
A VA advisory panel issues a red alert on outsourcing.
In response to
