How the Affordable Care Act Drove Consolidation and Moral Injury – and What We Can Do About It By Wendy Dean, MD April 18, 2025 It’s conference season, so I’ve been traveling and speaking a lot about moral injury. Usually, audiences talk about the moral events they face as practitioners. But at a […]
UnitedHealth stock craters in worst day since 1998 on ‘unusual and unacceptable’ results By Laura Bratton April 18, 2025 UnitedHealth (UNH) stock cratered just over 22% Thursday — its biggest single-day drop since August 1998 — after its first quarter earnings missed expectations and the company cut its full-year profit guidance. The health
Exclusive-FDA fires most negotiators for pharma user fee talks, sources say By Maggie Fick and Marisa Taylor April 18, 2025 LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s mass layoffs included senior negotiators in talks with the pharmaceutical industry over renewing the user fee programs that fund the regulator’s drug review system, six sources
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40% of nurses eye exit by 2029: 5 findings from NCSBN’s new workforce report By Erica Carbajal April 17, 2025 While the post-pandemic nursing workforce is showing signs of stabilizing, high levels of burnout, stress and dissatisfaction continue to threaten long-term workforce stability, according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s biennial
Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ By Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today April 18, 2025 A federal prosecutor sent a letteropens in a new tab or window to a medical journal editor, probing whether the publication is “partisan” when it comes to “various scientific debates.” Edward R. Martin
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New Study: Even Subsidized Job-Based Health Insurance Has Become Unaffordable By Wendell Potter Apr 08, 2025 A new study from the Commonwealth Fund confirms a pain that millions of American workers already know: having employer-based health insurance (or job-based, as the study calls it) is no guarantee that workers are protected from financial ruin
Despite Proven Fraud, Trump to Boost Payments to Privatized Medicare Advantage by $25 Billion By Jake Johnson Apr 08, 2025 The federal agency now headed by former television host Mehmet Oz announced Monday that it is substantially boosting payments to privately run Medicare Advantage plans, a boon for an industry notorious for overcharging taxpayers
The Health-Care Executives Who Quit Over Greed By Chris Stanton March 28, 2025 After graduating from college in 1987, Ron Howrigon answered a help-wanted ad in the Sunday paper for a job at Kaiser Permanente, figuring a career in health care would make him a force for good in the world. Later, he made
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Family of #WakieshaWilson (Slain Woman), Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles and Elected Officials Mark Anniversary of Her Death with New Laws By BLM Grassroots March 26, 2025 The family of Wakiesha Wilson will join Black Lives Matter- Los Angeles and state and federal lawmakers to commemorate the anniversary of the murder of their loved one
How PBMs Took Over the Prescription Drug Chain — And Left Patients and Pharmacists Paying the Price By Luke Sullivan Apr 02, 2025 Americans spent a record $464 billion last year on prescription drugs, according to recent numbers from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Five years ago that number was $335
