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Doctors vs. hospitals: A bid to regulate hedge funds is dividing California medical groups [CalMatters]

Doctors vs. hospitals: A bid to regulate hedge funds is dividing California medical groups By Ryan Sabalow April 30, 2024; Updated May 1, 2024   The most influential players in the health industry are fighting over a controversial plan to let the attorney general block hedge funds and private equity firms from acquiring health care […]

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Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse [Mother Jones]

Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse By Abby Vesoulis May 10, 2024   Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung spent four years in medical school, four years in an OB-GYN residency, and three years in a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship learning how to care for high-risk pregnant patients. In her decade-plus of medical training, she learned that in

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Single Payer Health Care IS Possible & Cali is Leading the Way with CalCare [KBLA – Los Angeles]

  Assemblyman Ash Kalra has put forth AB 2200 a policy bill meant to enable healthcare for all in California. Carmen Comsti of the California Nurses Association and Sheila Bates from Black Lives Matter California are ardent supporters of the bill known as Cal Care. On this podcast we look at why we CAN afford

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Senator Scrutinizes Physician Staffing Firms and Their Private Equity Owners [MedPage Today]

Senator Scrutinizes Physician Staffing Firms and Their Private Equity Owners by Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today April 8, 2024   A Michigan senator has asked four emergency department staffing firms and the three private equity companies that own them for more information about their business practices following concerns raised by

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ACA Plans Are Being Switched Without Enrollees’ OK [KFF]

ACA Plans Are Being Switched Without Enrollees’ OK By Julie Appleby APRIL 2, 2024   Some consumers covered by Affordable Care Act insurance plans are being switched from one plan to another without their express permission, potentially leaving them unable to see their doctors or fill prescriptions. Some face large IRS bills for back taxes.

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Here’s Why Nurses Are Exiting Healthcare [MedPage Today]

Here’s Why Nurses Are Exiting Healthcare by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today April 9, 2024   While planned retirement topped the list of reasons for nurses leaving healthcare, failures by employers also played a role, according to a cross-sectional study that analyzed survey data.   Among nearly 7,900 nurses who left the healthcare field

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Yes, Congress Finally Funded Health Spending for 2024 [MedPage Today]

Yes, Congress Finally Funded Health Spending for 2024 by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today April 3, 2024   Something important for the world of healthcare happened very quietly a week and a half ago: President Biden signed the fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations bill for HHS into law.   Biden signed the $1.2 trillion

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GPCA Endorses AB 2200, California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act [Green Party USA]

GPCA Endorses AB 2200, California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act April 15, 2024   The Green Party of California has endorsed AB 2200, California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act (CalCare) which will begin the process of creating a universal single-payer system of equitable and just health care for every California resident, regardless of

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Where Nursing Homes Hide Their Profits [The Lever]

Where Nursing Homes Hide Their Profits By Merrill Goozner April 8, 2024   Last June, an elderly stroke survivor residing at Chicago’s Lakeview Rehab and Nursing Center fell to the floor while being transferred by mechanical lift from his bed to a shower chair. The fall broke his leg in two places. A single nurse’s

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