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Critiquing Project 2025 By Jim Kahn June 26, 2024   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 proposes a rapid, broad, and enduring transformation. It lays out sweeping policy shifts that favor the wealthy and undermine support […]

California voters will decide who wins on health care tax: Gavin Newsom or doctors By Kristen Hwang (CalMatters) July 5, 2024   A two-year cash influx or a long-term investment? Come November it will be up to California voters whether to lock billions of special tax dollars into Medi-Cal — the state’s health insurance program

Viewpoint: The pediatrician pipeline is shrinking By Mackenzie Bean (Twitter) July 3rd, 2024   Fewer medical school students are entering pediatric residencies after graduation, marking a troubling trend that could exacerbate the current shortage of pediatricians, Aaron Carroll, MD, wrote in a July 1 op-ed for The New York Times.   Dr. Carroll, a pediatrician

My Health Insurance Company Is Trying To Kill Me By Jonna Jerome Jun 22, 2024   I suspect that my daughter and I are growing too costly and inconvenient for my health plan’s customer profile. They are genius (and stealthy) in their tactics to exhaust me financially, emotionally and physically. The company manuals must contain

Consolidation in Hospital Sector Leading to Higher Health Care Costs, Study Finds by Assistant Professor Zarek Brot-Goldberg, The University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy April 24, 2024   A new study co-authored by Assistant Professor Zarek Brot-Goldberg provides evidence that consolidation in the U.S. hospital sector—a result of lax antitrust enforcement –is contributing

Universal Health Systems: a better pathway to achieving universal and equitable access to comprehensive healthcare. June 2024   Task Force 1 – Fighting inequalities, poverty, and hunger. Topic 1.4 – Promoting universal health coverage, digital health, and open innovation to fight health inequalities   Authors   Leonardo Mattos, Researcher, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brasil Ligia Giovanella,

SCOTUS Sides With Native American Tribes in Healthcare Funding Dispute With Feds by Associated Press June 7, 2024   The Supreme Court sided with Native American tribes Thursday in a dispute with the federal government over the cost of healthcare when tribes run programs in their own communities.   The 5-4 decision means the government

How Corporate Health Insurers Harm America’s Seniors Physicians for a National Health Program May 23, 2024   Executive Summary   Medicare Advantage (MA), the privately-administered version of Traditional Medicare (TM), is causing significant harm to America’s patients, providers, and health care system. The insurers who run MA plans claim that they lead to better patient

What’s Driving Healthcare Consolidation? The Answer May Surprise You by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today May 21, 2024   WASHINGTON — What is driving consolidation in healthcare? The answer is: consolidation, Erin Fuse Brown, JD, MPH, said Tuesday.   “If all of the other competitors in the market are getting bigger, then in order

Urge Congress to keep the minimum staffing standard for nursing homes! May 31, 2024   Nursing home residents need your help! In the coming days, Congress will be considering legislation and a joint resolution that would prevent the implementation of the recently issued minimum staffing standard in nursing homes. This extreme legislation would not only