AB1400 Author, Ash Kalra Holds Press Conference on B1400
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Insurance Abuse
Facing Thousands of Dollars in Medical Expense
Christopher Rowland Yesterday at 5:41 p.m. EDT Jamie Azar left a rehab hospital in Tennessee this week with the help of a walker after spending the entire month of August in the ICU and on a ventilator. She had received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in mid-July but tested positive for the coronavirus
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Just Say It: The Health Care System Has Collapsed
BY VISHAL KHETPAL SEPT 07, 20215:45 AM Recently, a local news station in Houston ran a story about a man who passed away while waiting for a hospital bed. The story went viral. Daniel Wilkinson, a 46-year-old veteran who served two deployments in Afghanistan, presented to a community hospital a few doors down from his home
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Lose your health coverage? Don’t hesitate to haggle with medical providers
How dumb is it to tie people’s health insurance to their jobs? Just ask Steve Pelletier.
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The government lawsuit against Kaiser points to an immense fraud problem in Medicare
Medicare Advantage organizations…have some incentive to improperly inflate their enrollees’ capitation rates, if these organizations fall prey to greed.
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Hospitals charge huge ‘trauma’ fees to treat people with minor injuries
By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News Updated 8:15 AM ET, Sat July 17, 2021 (KHN) The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary. Sutter Health Memorial Medical Center
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Letter to the Healthy California Commission Rebuttal
By Emily J. Plympton Dear Dr. Ghaly, We are writing to you on behalf of Healthcare For All – Los Angeles to express our grave concerns regarding the conduct and efficacy of this Commission. Thus far, it has failed to produce any policy directives or legislative suggestions to support its mission of
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Covid Killed His Father Then Came $1 Million in Medical Bills
NY Times Article by Sarah Kliff One coronavirus survivor manages her medical bills in color-coded folders: green, red and tan for different types of documents. A man whose father died of the virus last fall uses an Excel spreadsheet to organize the outstanding debts. It has 457 rows, one for each of his father’s bills,
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This is why blaming doctors is pointless: America has no healthcare system
MAY 23, 2021 3 AM PT Published by the Los Angeles Times To the editor: Dr. Robert Pearl asserts that “doctor culture,” taught and learned in medical schools, is destroying the U.S. healthcare system. I disagree. America has no healthcare system. We have a healthcare industry that supports profit-making healthcare enterprises, regardless of whether
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