Despite being a top spender on health care, the United States is an outlier among its peers on life expectancy. It sits well in the bottom half of countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a grouping of several dozen mostly high-income nations. FULL ARTICLE
“Unfortunately, false or misleading advertisements and fraudulent sales practices are not new issues for Medicare beneficiaries,” said the chair of the Senate Finance Committee.
By JAKE JOHNSON PUBLISHED JUNE 1, 2022 1:30PM (EDT) he Biden administration quietly announced last week that it will leave in place one of the largest-ever Medicare premium hikes for the remainder of 2022, despite federal health officials’ decision to restrict coverage of the expensive and potentially ineffective Alzheimer’s drug that drove the increase. Progressive
By Reed Abelson April 28, 2022 Investigators urged increased oversight of the program, saying that insurers deny tens of thousands of authorization requests annually. Retired municipal workers at City Hall Park in Manhattan protested in February against being switched to a Medicare Advantage plan.Credit…Lev Radin/Pacific Press/ZUMA Press Wire, via Alamy Every year, tens of thousands
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Amy Goodman of Democracy Now reports on Ady Barkan, speaking before the House Oversight Committee about the need for Medicare for All.
Does the path to winning single payer in the U.S. lie in the states, or in Congress? Would states that rejected the Medicaid expansion accept federal Medicare for All? Join guest Dr. Paul Y. Song, radiation oncologist, president of Physicians for a National Health Program – California and host Brenda Gazzar for a rundown of states’ efforts to pass single-payer healthcare. What’s behind their
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Single-payer universal healthcare is within reach for Californians. On Jan. 20, Assembly Bill 1400, also known as CalCare, passed the California state assembly appropriations committee. If CalCare passes the assembly floor by Jan. 31 it will advance to the state senate. Right now, around a third of California’s population is on Medi-Cal, a free public
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by Michael Hiltzick California, which has shown the determination to go it alone in areas such as environmental protection, scientific research and workers’ rights when its values conflict with policies at the federal level, is moving forward with its most audacious effort yet. That’s a plan to create a universal single-payer healthcare system. Called CalCare,
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MICHAEL HILTZIK |BUSINESS COLUMNIST JAN. 14, 2022 6 AM PT California, which has shown the determination to go it alone in areas such as environmental protection, scientific research and workers’ rights when its values conflict with policies at the federal level, is moving forward with its most audacious effort yet. That’s a plan to create
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