The industry is hugely lucrative, with endless sums of cash to influence lawmakers. A new report tracks 25 years of health insurance industry donations.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Affordable to Buy, Costly to Use
Health care affordability depends on access to care and the true cost of care, not just insurance premiums.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Corporations and the Crisis of Care
The U.S. suffers from a mass exodus of primary care doctors, as medical practice is dictated by corporate masters at the expense of physicians and patients.
Posted inPolitics
Does Xavier Becerra Know What a PBM Is?
The question speaks to how in the Democratic Party, there is no price paid for the inability to govern.
Posted inTAP
Rolling Back Medicare Advantage
How a group of rank-and-file retirees in Connecticut successfully organized to restore their right to traditional public Medicare
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
GOP War on Health Care Destroying Hospitals at Home and Abroad
More than 800 health care facilities are at risk or have already closed since Republicans severely cut funding last year. The worst is still ahead.
Posted inTAP
Trump’s Death Panel
The proposed cuts in several forms of health care spending are a real version of the fake ‘death panels’ that the right attributed to Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: The End of United Health Care for All
There’s been good news in health care reform this week, and our guest is right in the middle of the fight for positive change.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Bank of Big Medicine
Health insurers and providers are using industrial loan companies and other tactics to make money from financial engineering rather than patient care.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Republicans Can’t Escape Their Self-Created Health Care Problem
Another series of failures ensures that a debate they can’t win will extend into the election year of 2026.
