The System Makes Patients Sick and CEOs Rich By: Wendell Potter June 20, 2023 Big health insurance companies have been on a spending spree buying back shares of their own stock, a gimmick — illegal until a few years ago — that has made a few insurance company CEOs incredibly rich at a time […]
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This Rural California County Lost its Only Hospital, Leaving Residents with Dire Healthcare Choices By Melissa Gomez, Hannah Fry Photography By Genaro Molina June 6, 2023 MADERA, Calif. — It was dinnertime when Sabrina Baker, a mother of six, felt the familiar twinge of contractions. At first, she brushed it off as Braxton
The For-Profit Takeover of Medicare Is a Huge Scam By Matthew Cunningham-Cook & Andrew Perez May 26, 2023 The health insurance behemoth Humana enjoyed a banner 2022. The Louisville, Kentucky–based insurer made $2.8 billion in profits last year, while paying out $448 million in dividends to shareholders and more than $17 million in compensation
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‘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
