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Where Does Medicare Go From Here: Profit-Driven Chaos …

This article is a co-publication with HEALTH CARE un-covered, a website about the health insurance industry. It is available at wendellpotter.substack.com.. Medicare, the country’s largest and arguably most successful health care program, is under duress, weakened by decades of relentless efforts by insurance companies to privatize it.

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Our Uniquely American Drug Shortages

WEBApril 17, 2024. Expand. Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via AP. Last week, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) announced that the United States has the largest …

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Public Pharma’s Biggest Barrier

WEBSeveral months ago, California’s CalRx Biosimilar Insulin Initiative partnered with nonprofit generic drug producer Civica Rx to develop and manufacture insulin, a …

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The Importance of the ‘VA Advantage’

WEBThe recent reintroduction of a Medicare for All bill in Congress, with the promise of hearings in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, offers another …

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Building a Giant

WEB2010s The 2010s were marked by former President Barack Obama’s aspirations to c reate a universal health care system—a lofty goal that ultimately led to …

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Between You and Your Doctor: How Medicare Advantage …

WEBThe number is likely to continue to grow. As I reported for The Lever last year, the two million denials in 2021 represented a massive escalation from the 640,000 in …

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The VA Bows to the Dialysis Duopoly

WEBThe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has long been assailed for the costly and ineffective contracting network it has built to (often, grossly inadequately) …

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Zoomer Hackers Shut Down the Biggest Extortion Ring of …

WEBColonial Pipeline had paid out dividends in excess of its profits to owners like Koch Industries for years leading up to the hack that caused a nationwide run on gas …

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What the Caregiver Workforce Shortage Means for the …

WEBNationwide, there is a shortage of home care workers, and the employment crunch potentially will become even worse as our nation ages. One in five Americans …

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700,000 Undocumented Californians Recently

WEBThis article was produced by Capital & Main, an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues.It is co-published …

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What Happened to Health Care Reform

WEBThe principle of health coverage for all was an achievement, wrote A.M. Rosenthal of the New York Times, that Clinton could already nail to the wall. A year …

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Q&A: How Corporate Medicine Destroys Doctors

WEBFive years ago, a remarkable article appeared in Stat News proposing a different way to think about the health care industry. Physicians, who typically work in …

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A Community Hospital in Deep-Red Wyoming

WEBA day after Tillman’s assault, a COVID outbreak had sickened enough nurses to shut down their sister hospital in Riverton, but that was more a reflection of …

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Company Behind Joe Namath Medicare Advantage Ads Has Long …

WEBThis article is a co-publication with HEALTH CARE un-covered, a website about the health insurance industry. It is available at wendellpotter.substack.com.. …

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How the Texas Legislature Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the …

WEBThe latest state to take strong action to improve affordability in its ACA marketplace is … Texas? The Lone Star State, remember, is one of 12 states that have …

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Casualties of a Failed Health Care System

WEBDig deeper, and there are the multiple causes of this mess: There is a severe shortage of slots in skilled nursing facilities. Much of this is driven by a shortage of staff, …

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Dealing With the Bad Stewards

WEBThe entire Massachusetts congressional delegation has sent a letter to the management of Steward Health Care, demanding that they account for the several …

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‘Return What You Stole and Be a Man With Dignity’

WEBIt is Day 21 of the ransomware outage at Change Healthcare, a once-unknown repository of American health care data owned by the Minnesota health care …

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Our Workforce Needs More Immigrants

WEBLast week, among a flurry of other important Biden executive orders, the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a long-pending order on standards …

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Another Private Equity–Style Hospital Raid Kills a Busy Urban …

WEBAMC, a 120-year-old hospital, loses tens of millions of dollars treating tens of thousands of disproportionately low-income patients per year, but it sits on hundreds …

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Ten Reasons Why American Health Care Is so Bad

WEBAs a result. Americans are the most likely to say their doctor doesn't know important information about their medical history, which has obvious implications for …

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How Secret ‘Bondage Fees’ Trap Contracted Workers in Low-Wage …

WEBBut, as Jane Flanagan pointed out in a 2020 article, this justification is weakened by the fact that “significant fees or damages persists even after a temp has …

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