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
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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
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
