‘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 […]
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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
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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
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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
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them by Patrick Rucker, Maya Miller and David ArmstrongMarch 25, 5 a.m. EDT Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. Series: Uncovered How
Health Insurers Get Government Cash, Then Jack Up Prices Oct 11, 2022 by David Sirota Despite the Affordable Care Act’s promises, publicly subsidized insurers are jacking up prices while Americans lose coverage. Health Insurers Get Government Cash, Then Jack Up Prices (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Back in 2010, Democrats sold the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
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She didn’t need the risky surgery. County doctors talked her into it anyway, lawsuit says Bernetta Higgins at her home in Silver Lake on June 14, 2022. She says she underwent an unneeded operation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center at the urging of a surgeon who was being paid by a medical device maker. Higgins suffered
On Thursday, the Charmed actress took to Instagram to post a photo of her sitting in hospital with an IV in her left arm. In the accompanying caption, Shannen asked The Nanny actress, who was elected president of the labour union that represents actors and media professionals in 2021, to reconsider rules relating to health
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Humana to Exit Employer Insurance Business to Focus on Government Plans February 23, 2023 by Sriparna Roy Editing by Savio D’Souza and Sriraj Kalluvila Feb 23 (Reuters) – Humana Inc (HUM.N) will exit the employer-based insurance business over the next 18 to 24 months, it said on Thursday, to focus primarily on government-backed programs
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Medicare Advantage Enrollees face Higher Likelihood of Hospital Care Denials February 21, 2023 by Diane Archer Paige Minemyer reports for Fierce Healthcare that hospitals treating Medicare Advantage enrollees faced a higher likelihood of claim denials last year than the year before. Medicare Advantage plans, administered by private health insurers, use tools that limit coverage
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