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Insurers Are Gaming Medicare — To The Tune Of $140 Billion [The Lever]

Insurers Are Gaming Medicare — To The Tune Of $140 Billion By Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Lucy Dean Stockton Published October 4, 2023   The federal government is losing as much as $140 billion per year by subsidizing private Medicare Advantage plans, according to a bombshell new report. In the groundbreaking investigation, health care researchers identified

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Healing Justice Lineages: Disrupting the Medical-Industrial Complex (Nonprofit Quarterly)

Healing Justice Lineages: Disrupting the Medical-Industrial Complex By Sonia Sarkar, Cara Page and Erica Woodland Published April 18, 2023   Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety is a new book from Cara Page and Erica Woodland. I had the opportunity to speak with both authors about the movement

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A slow start for Newsom’s gun plan (Politico)

A slow start for Newsom’s gun plan By Lara Korte, Jeremy B. White and Dustin Gardiner Published October 27, 2023   DRIVING THE DAY: Gov. Gavin Newsom is again in Beijing today. Our intrepid colleague Blanca Begert is traveling with the governor during his tour. You can read her coverage in the California Climate newsletter.

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US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate. One decided to speak out (The Guardian)

US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate. One decided to speak out By Christina Frangou Published September 26, 2023   Carrie Cunningham puffed out her cheeks and exhaled. She looked out at the audience filled with 2,000 of her peers, surgeons who were attending the annual meeting of the Association of Academic Surgery,

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Health care CEOs hauled in $4 billion last year as inflation pinched workers, analysis shows (STAT)

Health care CEOs hauled in $4 billion last year as inflation pinched workers, analysis shows By Bob Herman, J. Emory Parker, Adam Feuerstein, Lizzy Lawrence and Mohana Ravindranat Published August 17, 2023   The health care industry didn’t just provide a safe haven for jittery stock investors in 2022, a year defined by inflation and

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Medicare Advantage plans have little reason to address people’s long-term health needs (Just Care)

Medicare Advantage plans have little reason to address people’s long-term health needs By Diane Archer Published September 13, 2023   Nearly half of all Medicare Advantage members leave their Medicare Advantage plans within five years of enrolling, according to a recent study by David Meyers et al. at the Brown University School of Public Health

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