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
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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
Bernie on Medicare for All
The day will come when we will succeed in making health care a human right, YouTube video (7 min), May 23, 2024, by Bernie Sanders
Transcript:
Thank
Surgeon General Misses the Diagnosis: Terminally Ill Insurance Structure
I’m a Former Surgeon General and I Couldn’t Believe My $10k Medical Bill, MedPage Today, May 17, 2024, by Jerome Adams, M.D., M.P.H.
While attending a
Insured Percent Up; Care Affordability Plunging
Health costs threaten to overshadow Biden’s historic coverage gains, Axios, May 14, 2024, by Caitlin Owens
President Biden has come closer than any of his Democratic
Reversing Vertical Merger-Mania in Health Care
Medicare Advantage and Vertical Consolidation in Health Care, American Economic Liberties Project, April 30, 2024, by Hayden Rooke-Ley
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