Mapping UnitedHealth’s consumption of our health care system—from the ’70s to today
Affordable Care Act
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Medicare Advantage Trap
In 46 states, once you choose Medicare Advantage at 65, you can almost never leave.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Republican War on Families
The ‘Dobbs’ decision and conservative policies mean teenage rape victims are forced to give birth in dangerous, threadbare hospitals.
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Moving Past Neoliberalism Is a Policy Project
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
In North Carolina, the Uninsured Say Medicaid Expansion Will Be Life-Changing
After years of contentious battles amid a rural health crisis, the state voted to expand the program.
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The Fight for Mental Health Parity
The expiration of the COVID public-health emergency will make it harder to obtain treatment. But hurdles already existed in the law.
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Private Health Care Companies Are Eating the American Economy
A new report from Wendell Potter at the Center for Health and Democracy examines just how the private insurance market makes its money—and how American health care is worse off for it.
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The Last Pandemic Welfare Supports Get Kicked Out
Expirations around Medicaid and food stamps reinforce how Democrats failed to live up to professed ambitions on the welfare state.
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Why Progressive Groups Struggled With the Biden Agenda
The way Build Back Better unfolded made it an insider’s game, wasting serious effort and hundreds of millions of dollars from outside organizations.
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How Policy Got Done in 2022
To understand the Democrats’ big climate and health care bill, you must go back decades.
