Erstwhile Boston media darling Steward Health Care has been strip-mining hospitals for a decade now. The power elite may finally be paying attention.
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The Great Medicare Advantage Marketing Scam
How for-profit health insurers convince seniors to enroll in private Medicare plans
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Building a Giant
Mapping UnitedHealth’s consumption of our health care system—from the ’70s to today
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Euthanize This (Merger)
The merger of Cigna and Humana, America’s fifth- and sixth-largest for-profit health insurers, would create a monster middleman to ‘compete’ with the undisputed giant, UnitedHealth.
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The Medicare Advantage Trap
In 46 states, once you choose Medicare Advantage at 65, you can almost never leave.
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The AMA Debates a Federal Ban on Corporate Medicine
A new guard is pushing the (once passionately pro-corporate) doctors’ trade group to clamp down on health care profiteering.
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The NIH’s ‘How to Become a Billionaire’ Program
An obscure company affiliated with a former NIH employee is offered the exclusive license for a government-funded cancer drug.
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Heads They ‘Cha-Ching!’; Tails They Take Away Your Malpractice Insurance
A tale of two private equity–spawned medical mega-practices
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Who’ll Stop the Raid?
A little-noticed Justice Department case alleges that Alabama’s Medical Properties Trust engaged in ‘fraudulent conveyance.’
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The Great American Hospital Shell Game
Stock in Medical Properties Trust tanked 14 percent this week after a couple of eyebrow-raising disclosures.