Amid the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, a law signed the day before the January 6th riot shows that the industry is more interested in limiting liability.
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Our Uniquely American Drug Shortages
More drugs are in short supply than ever before. We’ve known the reason why for a long time: monopolistic middlemen.
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700,000 Undocumented Californians Recently Became Eligible for Medi-Cal. Many May Be Afraid to Sign Up.
Advocates say outreach is needed to ensure deportation fears do not stop immigrants from applying.
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Privatization Warning
A VA advisory panel issues a red alert on outsourcing.
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Will Voters Hear About Donald Trump’s Deranged Health Care Agenda?
A second Trump term means tens of millions of people losing insurance and chaos in the hospitals.
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The PBM-Insurer Mafia Comes for Community Pharmacies
UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna’s PBMs are using their market share and pull in Washington to drive one of the key levers to manage health care costs—independent pharmacies—out of business.
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Novo Nordisk Discontinues Insulin Medication After Cutting Its Price
Levemir is critical for young people and pregnant women, patients say. But it won’t be sold in the U.S. after this year.
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Miscarriage and Murder
The Alabama legislature has acted to protect doctors and IVF clinic workers from the ‘fetal personhood’ doctrine, but not pregnant women.
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‘Return What You Stole and Be a Man With Dignity’
Doctors didn’t think it was possible to loathe the world’s biggest health care profiteer any more. Then came the hack that set half their bookkeeping systems on fire.
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UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created
The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.