BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR DOCTOR: How Medicare Advantage care denials affect patients By Matthew Cunningham-Cook March 4, 2024 In 2023, insurance behemoth UnitedHealth spent $8 billion buying back its stock to juice its stock price—and its executive compensation, which is tied to the company’s stock price. It spent 39% more on stock buybacks in […]
Indigenous Americans — The Journal’s Historical “Indian Problem” By David S. Jones, M.D., Ph.D., Moustafa Abdalla, M.D., D.Phil., and Joseph P. Gone, Ph.D. January 4, 2024 By the time the Journal was launched in 1812, Boston had witnessed two centuries of destructive confrontations between Europeans and Indigenous Americans. Although some Indigenous communities persisted in
Key Messages: Health Care at Risk for Millions By California Hospital Association 2024
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A Hospital’s Overflowing Emergency Room, Our Sick Health System By Mark Kreidler February 15, 2024 Last summer, officials at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles made a decision: If they didn’t start yelling for help, their facility was headed for a total shutdown. In the abstract, the problem seemed
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The Ethos of Emergency Medicine Hangs in the Balance by Monica Saxena, MD, JD, Dara Kass, MD, Esther Choo, MD, MPH, and Jennifer A. Newberry, MD, JD, MSc March 8, 2024 The ethos of emergency medicine — any patient, any time, any problem — could be radically changed, considering pending legal challenges that may
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Letters to the Editor: If Canada can have single-payer healthcare, so can California Including Editorial from HC4US.org’s own James Sarantinos February 28, 2024 To the editor: Rivas is disingenuous in his claim that the state can’t afford a single-payer healthcare system in the face of spiraling budget deficits. Such a system will generate
Americans Paid $11 Billion To Make Drugs You Can’t Afford By Helen Santoro February 22, 2024 As the government begins its first-ever price negotiations for a handful of medicines under Medicare, the pharmaceutical industry has launched an all-out legal and PR assault on this meager attempt to control out-of-control drug prices for the country’s
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California Achieves Near-Universal Coverage, But Budget Deficits And Single-Payer Proposals Remain By Paul Roberts, REBC, Sr. Director of Education & Market Development February 12, 2024 On January 1, 2024, California took a significant step toward achieving universal health coverage for its residents. By expanding its Medi-Cal program, the state now ensures that every resident,
Single-payer healthcare is a ‘tough, tough sell’ as California faces massive budget shortfall By Anabel Sosa February 21, 2024 SACRAMENTO — California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas cast doubt on the latest proposal to create a state-run single-payer healthcare system, saying he likes the idea but isn’t convinced the state can afford it in the
