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Why the Next Big Hope for Alzheimer’s Might Not Help Most Black Patients By Arthur Allen July 10, 2023     The FDA on Thursday gave full approval to what many scientists and doctors believe is the first drug to show promise of slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.   But while patient advocates are […]

New York City retirees score major victory in Medicare Advantage fight By Annie McDonough August 11, 2023   A state Supreme Court judge blocked New York City from switching municipal retirees to a Medicare Advantage plan aimed at saving hundreds of millions of dollars in health care costs, delivering retirees a key victory in a

The Unfolding Medicaid Disaster By: Andrew Perez & Nick Byron Campbell Jun 21, 2023   As states have begun clearing out their Medicaid rolls for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly three quarters of the Americans who’ve lost coverage have been terminated not because they’re ineligible for the low-income health

The System Makes Patients Sick and CEOs Rich By: Wendell Potter June 20, 2023   Big health insurance companies have been on a spending spree buying back shares of their own stock, a gimmick — illegal until a few years ago — that has made a few insurance company CEOs incredibly rich at a time

This Rural California County Lost its Only Hospital, Leaving Residents with Dire Healthcare Choices By Melissa Gomez, Hannah Fry Photography By Genaro Molina June 6, 2023      MADERA, Calif. — It was dinnertime when Sabrina Baker, a mother of six, felt the familiar twinge of contractions. At first, she brushed it off as Braxton

The For-Profit Takeover of Medicare Is a Huge Scam By Matthew Cunningham-Cook & Andrew Perez May 26, 2023    The health insurance behemoth Humana enjoyed a banner 2022. The Louisville, Kentucky–based insurer made $2.8 billion in profits last year, while paying out $448 million in dividends to shareholders and more than $17 million in compensation

‘We’re at a standstill’: Patients can face agonizing waits for hospital transfers By Emily Alpert Reyes (Staff Writer) Photography By Francine Orr May 28, 2023    When the pain kicked in again in February, Lahisha Marquez-Soto held off on going to the hospital for days, until she was struggling to walk out of her college

How Medicare Advantage Could Kill Medicare By Ady Barkan MAY 17, 2023   Today, Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Pramila Jayapal, and Representative Debbie Dingell introduced the Medicare for All Act in the Senate and House. They are part of a long tradition.   For nearly a century, elected officials, pushed by progressive reformers, have tried

We Don’t Just Need Medicare for All — We Need a National Health System May 2, 2023 An Interview With Steffie Woolhandler David U. Himmelstein      Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) emerged thirty-five years ago amid the austerity cuts of the Reagan administration, which threatened to hollow out critical social safety-net programs

Is California giving reparations for slavery? (CA slavery reparations task force recommends among other policies for restitution for and non-repetition of harms of chattel slavery of African Americans: “Adopt universal single-payer healthcare coverage and a healthcare cost control system.”) By Taryn Luna (Staff Writer) MAY 6, 2023 7:37 PM PT Amos C. Brown Jr., vice