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
Canadian Born Pamela Anderson Gives Shoutout To Universal Healthcare After Father’s Cancer Scare By Jill Goldsmith March 26, 2025 Pamela Anderson, who was back on screen and all over the awards circuit with last year in Gia Coppola’s film The Last Showgirl, said today that “vanity is a prison” as she accepted a Muse
Milwaukee-area woman deported to Laos though she’s never been there, doesn’t speak the language By Sophie Carson March 14, 2025 A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded
Children’s Hospital L.A. lifts recent limits on hormonal therapy for transgender youth By Emily Alpert Reyes (Staff Writer) February 21, 2025 Children’s Hospital L.A. is reversing its recent decision to pause initiating hormonal therapy for transgender youth, which followed an executive order by President Trump targeting such care. The hospital said it
Who’s Fighting Back (and not) Against Trump’s Cuts in VA Jobs and Services By Steve Early and Rebecca Gordon March 7, 2025 Among the Republican voters experiencing buyer’s remorse are more than a few military veterans who chose Trump over Harris by a margin of 65 to 34%, according to some exit polls.
New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review By Erin Reed March 9, 2025 In recent years, U.S. politicians have selectively framed European healthcare policies to justify restrictions on transgender care, seizing on a handful of conservative policies to claim that “Europe is pulling back.” The most extreme example,
